This week’s selection I’m calling musical Cinderella films. That is to say musical takes on the Cinderella story. (I was planning on calling it Cinderella musicals but one of them was dance numbers rather than singing.) My first film Jacques[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I watched films based on Graham Greene novels. I’ve always had mixed feelings about Graham Greene as an author. Make no mistake, he’s very good, but he tends to be a little too cynical even by my snarky[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s theme I chose something I think I’ll call celestial trials… that is to say court cases in the afterlife. The first film on the list, Micheal Powell’s, A Matter of Life And Death, better known as, much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wanted to call this week’s Scarecrow selection white-collar crimes, but since none of the things mentioned it these films were technically illegal, I decided to just call it stocks and bonds. Starting with the bond side, the first film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided after watching a handful of heavy dramas and satires, I really need some light, inconsequential fluff to clear my palate. To do this I decided to watch some of the fluffiest thing I could think of,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week was the Emerald City Comic Con. So in its honor, I thought I’d do something comic related. However since I’ve seen all but the absolute worst of most of the genre, I went for some adaptations of some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It seems like a good idea at the time. Last week’s selection was kind of depressing. Therefore I decided to clear my palate I wanted some light, fluffy comedies. Regrettably, I did not plan ahead enough to go into the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While randomly going through Scarecrow’s science fiction section I settled on the theme that I chose to refer to as “fighting oneself.” When I say this I mean this I mean it literally. I’m talking about the completely fanciful scenario[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Good news everybody. After being indecisive for far too long I’ve finally set up a Patreon Account! It’s still a work in progress and I’ll be adding more benefits soon. For now the big reward is that for a patron[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We care decided to do something different and watch films based on one of the classics of Western Literature, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. Like Canturbury tales, written about the same time, the Decameron is a collection of stories of all sorts.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
