For this weeks selection, I went back to one of my favorite genres, swashbuckling pirates, but decided to go way back with the vintage stuff. And when I say that I’m talking the real vintage stuff like the stuff that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the heavy depressing and heavy heist films that went of their way to show as well as tell us how crime doesn’t pay, I thought I’d clear my palette a little bit with some complete fluff. My choice of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because we just got through text times I decided to do films involving members of the IRS as protagonists. After all, this time of year can’t be easy for them either…. They’re only human after all… Yes, really! First on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to have some fun and watch some films I had heard about for some time about Viking adventures. ( I briefly considered calling it Viking Fantasy but while one of the films definitely was, the other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
`This week I watched films about subways. Specifically, ones that were sort of urban fantasies and sort of comedies… but not quite. The first film on my list, Luc Besson’s Subway. Christopher Lambert plays Fred a man who has just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to dip into a very small pool and watch comedies about Rabbis. The film that inspired me to go with this theme was the first film on my list, Gérard Oury‘s The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week, on a friend suggestion (that I have some regrets about) I decided to watch films about cannibals. The first film on my list, Paul Bartel’s Eating Raoul, tells the story of Paul and Mary Bland (Bartel and Mary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s film selection I watched some war comedies. The most I knew about Richard Lester’s How I Won the War is that it was the film with John Lennon in it. I had seen photographs of Lennon dressed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It may have been a bit of a stretch, but for this week’s film selection, I watched films someway connected with the Seven Years War. The film that inspired this selection, Christian-Jaque, parody of swashbuckling films, Fanfan la Tulipe, was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I thought I’d take a break and watch something fun and lightweight, Specifically, I went with some Sherlock Holmes parodies. The first film on my list The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother starring Gene Wilder,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
