Once again I fell back on doing another selection of Oscar nominees. For this week I went with films from 1961. The first on my list the Guns of Navarone was one I knew the name of for years but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My Theme for this week was seventies kitsch, the kind of slice of life comedies that did not intend to be period pieces going in but in the end turn into documentaries for the period. (In hindsight I could also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A friend of mine had recommended I did an alien visitors theme, mostly in the nineteen fifties sci-fi horror theme which included the remake of the Blob, but since this was one of the few times Scarecrow didn’t have an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since the latest Marvel Cinematic universe film, Ant Man starring Paul Rudd is coming out in a couple of weeks I thought I’d make my selection as topical as possible and base it around all on Paul Rudd films to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are times I think that Pixar’s marketing department makes a point of underplaying a lot of the films they are advertising as if to say yes this is a silly idea, sometimes to the point of misdirection. The Incredibles[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A few weeks back I was playing around with trying to make a list of as many “Alphabet Films” as I could think of. When I say that I mean is films who’s title Is just one letter or has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week my selection was based on two things. Magical Realism and Chocolate. I like Magical Realism. There’s something really cool about a setting where the fantasy elements are so low key yet so ubiquitous that you’re hardly aware that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My original intent for this week’s selection was westerns from the Native perspective. But in the long run it ended up being films about white men gone native. My first film, A Man Called Horse, tells the story of John[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to return my attention to screwball comedy, and since the one film on the top of my list. Bringing up Baby, was not available I decided to pick films at random from the B-List. While doing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was completely stumped for an idea for this week’s theme this week. But as I walked past Scarecrow’s music section I found inspiration and on a whim picked Elvis Presley. I won’t say that I was ever Elvis’s biggest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
