Well, for this week I went with two Scandinavian dark fantasies. It’s interesting for the last few months I’ve found myself drawn to Swedish pop media including Let The Right One In, Girl With A Dragon Tattoo and the Wallander[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
v So… the only thing this weeks films have in common is that they weird. Or to put it more accurately one is weird and the other is Alejandro Jodorowsky’ “The Holy Mountain” a movie that asks the question “what is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this weeks selection I watched the 1964 epic, Zulu, and it’s 1979 prequel, Zulu Dawn I first ever heard of Zulu in a documetnery on Micheal Caine’s carreer telling how it was his breakout roll. The clip included caine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week I treated myself to another viewing of Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood so I decided for this week’s theme would be interesting Shakespeare adaptations. Following Kurosawa’ example I figured I’d just go with Macbeth and Lear. Our first film,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I certainly enjoyed the first Hobbit movie it was one of those movies I never had an overwhelming need to go see it again and again the way I did with the Lord of the Rings films. This carried[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I first heard of A Letter to Momo less than a week ago when a couple of my friends were raving about it and making it clear that it would only been at the Varsity for the rest of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to do another round of caper films. The first of the two was The Anderson Tapes from 1971 starring Sean Connery featuring Christopher Walken.’s film debut. (He’s so young here, I didn’t even recognize him until he opened his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To keep with the holiday season I decided to start viewing some dark fantasy films (my threshold for horror is mixxed at best. I prefer the subtler supernatural over the raw terror of a slasher film so a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The topic for this week’s halloween feature is one of my favorite monsters, the Werewolf. The first on my list, Hammer film”s Curse of the Werewolf directed by Terence Fisher starring Oliver Reed, is one I’d been curious about for years. First[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s double feature I went with humorous vampire movies. I was trying for movies that were not outright parodies like Love at First Bite or Dracula: Dead and Loving It. What I was really going for was actual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
