While reading a review by Roger Ebert on one of the films I reviewed last week he made a point about comedies being products if their cultures and were especially funny in the context of the countries they were made[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I started this week’s selection my basic idea was “live action cartoons” based on the way the film on my list had been described. But since I wasn’t having much luck finding a second film that fit that criteria[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mostly based this week’s selection on my first pic, which I thought would be an interesting indie piece, and based on what I had heard about was an indie companion to films like Cool World and Who Framed Roger[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now that the Halloween season is done, I felt like I had to clear my palette from my month long horror film marathon. So I decided that something silly and innocuous would be a perfect choice. Naturally, I went with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because we just got through text times I decided to do films involving members of the IRS as protagonists. After all, this time of year can’t be easy for them either…. They’re only human after all… Yes, really! First on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
`This week I watched films about subways. Specifically, ones that were sort of urban fantasies and sort of comedies… but not quite. The first film on my list, Luc Besson’s Subway. Christopher Lambert plays Fred a man who has just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to dip into a very small pool and watch comedies about Rabbis. The film that inspired me to go with this theme was the first film on my list, Gérard Oury‘s The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s film selection I watched some war comedies. The most I knew about Richard Lester’s How I Won the War is that it was the film with John Lennon in it. I had seen photographs of Lennon dressed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I thought I’d take a break and watch something fun and lightweight, Specifically, I went with some Sherlock Holmes parodies. The first film on my list The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother starring Gene Wilder,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the week’s selection, I went with films about pulp adventure, or more accurately films that parodied films like Indiana Jones and similar pulp films. The first film on my list was J. Lee Thompson’s Firewalker, starring Chuck Norris, Lou[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
