For this week’s selection I went with the theme of hollow earth courtesy of Messer’s Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne. The first, At the Earth’s Core, is extremely loosely based on the first of Burroughs’ Pellucidar novels of the same name.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s theme I decided to watch some Bill Murray films. Naturally I’ve liked hs work since Saturday Night Live. I was weaned on Stripes and Ghostbusters. I think the really big transition from just another comedian turned actor to one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s theme I decided to take a break and do some lighter fare and watch some movies based on French comics. I’d seen the first of the live action adaptation of Asterix staring Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the suggestion of a friend I started experimenting with doing the ongoing theme of forgotten Oscar nominees whenever I didn’t have any better ideas, To start this exercise I decided to begin with the year of my birth, 1968. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My initial idea for a theme this week was something in the way of people trying to maintain the façade of an artificial reality. Unfortunately I’d seen most of the movies that could go with the movie that had inspired[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I went with films with the same character in this case Raymond Chandle’sr classic hard boiled detective Phillip Marlowe. I confess I’d never read any of Chandler’s books or seen any of the movies in fact much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 finally got around to watching Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was about what I expected, stupid and fun at the same time with some good special effects. In short I found myself comparing it to a nice big[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I watched last night’s Oscars expecting nothing and enjoying despite everything. I generally don’t pay much attention to the Academy Awards that much generally finding them little more than an aging old boys club that publicly pats itself on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I returned to one of my favorite genres, Swashbucklers, specifically pirates. The first film on my list was The Black Swan a story loosely based on actual history with the aftermath of the former pirate, Sir[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
