I’m calling this week’s topic “ghost stories” since I’ve done Haunted House… or at least most of the good ones. The first film on my list, Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu tells the story of two peasants who have a pottery business[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very happy birthday to Mr. Dizzy Gillespie! Let’s celebrate by listening to him and his people perform Chano Pozo’s Tin Tin Deo
Well, for better or for worse my monster marathon is over and I’m back once again to watching other genres. For this week’s theme I watched what I was originally going to call record store comedy, but one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t done one of these in a while. I really need to do more research to find some good ones. Anyway, to start things up, here’s Scott Bradlee with his mashup of Queen and Gershwin, Bohemian Rhapsody in Blue.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to clean my palette a little bit with my favorite genre, Science fiction. The problem with having a favorite genre is after a while you’ve seen all of the good stuff, and in one’s search for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Due to a hectic week, I decided to keep things light and went back to another one of my favorite genres, screwball comedy. Specifically this time screwball comedy with Scripps by the great Billy Wilder. The first on my list[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now that the holiday is over, I thought I’d try and get as far away from that sort of thing as possible. In this case, I thought I’d try spy thrillers featuring the Mossad. For better or for worse, whether[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I watched a pair of thrillers involving people going undercover to infiltrate the mob… and perhaps vice versa. The first film on my list Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco tells the story of Joseph D. Pistone, (Johnny Depp), an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a way to clear my pallete of the dark nature of last week’s topic I chose a theme that I like to call “Sexy Western Comedy”. That is to say western comedies with a sex symbol as the lead.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection, I went with neo-noir… a genre that, along with being simply modern takes on the Film Noir genre, deconstructs many of Film Noir’s traditional elements, focussing more on social and psychological aspects. THe main reason for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
