This week I returned to caper films. Since nearly all of the previous films of this genre I had watched had been British films I decided to see what the French had to offer. The first of my selection was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was leant a copy of Orson Welles‘s adaptation of Franz Kafka‘s The Trial. So I figured that Kafka films would make for a good theme for this week. I’m embarrassed to admit that what I knew about Kafka’s The Trial[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Continuing the theme of films that are of the season but not seasonal, I watched some thrillers. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the only James Bond film starring George Lazenby as Bond it’s also the only one where the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At first I had the idea to do Lucador films since I’d been interested in the phenomenon of the status of Mexican wrestlers outside of the wring most notably wrestlers like El Santo… but since I didn’t want to torture[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I hit that low where since I couldn’t think of a good theme for the week and was forced to dip into my list of ideas I didn’t like that much but saved them for just this sort of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
These two films were suggested to me by a friend, and for a while I wasn’t sure what they had in common and then it hit me, marital bliss. Admittedly with one of these films I’m being very sarcastic when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now I’m sure when everybody saw the theme was “Un-American Vietnam War Films”, they said, what? With all of the peacenik anti-war messages, most of them have, besides John Wayne’s The Green Berets, how many Vietnam War films are pro[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a way to recover from a traumatic week, I decided to go with the comfort of musical comedy from 1981. Unfortunately having not done my research as much as I should have wheel these films were musicals they certainly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I thought I’d return to westerns once again only this time look at the funny side of the genre with western parodies. Regrettably, I’ve seen the greatest of these, Blazing Saddles so many times that I can recite a lot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For various reasons, most likely from reading Terry Pratchett’s Raising Steam for the umpteenth time, I was thinking about trains today. But since trains seems to basic I decided to look at films about train stations and the people work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
