At first I’d planned to put off watching this film since I’m generally very picky about what I see in the theaters these days but the main reason I wanted to see the Martian in the theater, other than a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While zombies have been all the range for over a decade now for my next selection of Halloween based double feature I decided to go back to basics and go with Hollywood Voodoo. I’d been marginally interested in Voodoo and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The theme for this week’s film selection was jerks. Insufferable self centered, self destructive jerks. I got the idea for this week’s selection when I heard that comic writer Grant Morrison had based an urban sorcerer he created (because he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To start the holiday season I decided to go with films that were of the season but not actually seasonal. This led to a rather interesting selection of two films that have absolutely nothing in common. In Bell, Book and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week I decided to try for something in the way of a rockumentary… or more accurately mockumentarys like This is Spinal Tap or the Ruttles since i enjoy parodies. Unfortunately this didn’t go quite as I planned. Having seen most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I finally went with something I’d been wanting to do for a while, Rogues, but couldn’t find an appropriate partner to go with the film that inspired me to go this way in the first place.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As people may guess from the Rhapsodies annual Christmas story, Santa Claus has always been the favorite part of Christmas. When I was growing up I took great pleasure in deluding myself over his existence. (Technically I still do but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s entry I decided to get my Science Fiction fix on with Alien Invaders, specifically what TVTropes likes to call “Aliens in Cardiff” which is to say stories where the aliens invasion occurs in places where the world[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Growing up one of my favorite shows was Hogan’s Heroes. I watched it religiously and one of the side effects was doing a lot of reading about the real POW camps as well as the history of world war II[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I first started this week’s theme I thought I’d go with films based on Joseph Conrad stories, but when the first film I came across on my list (after Apocalypse Now) was The Duelists, I decided that doing duelists[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
