For the week’s selection, I went with films about pulp adventure, or more accurately films that parodied films like Indiana Jones and similar pulp films. The first film on my list was J. Lee Thompson’s Firewalker, starring Chuck Norris, Lou[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week selection I went back to science fiction. I wanted to do comedy. But since I mostly scraped the barrel for most of the obvious science fiction parities I needed to go deeper into the realm of satire. Going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I I decided to watch comedies (yes, comedies) about spouses trying to kill their spouses. The first film on my list was Elaine May’s A New Leaf starring May and Walter Matthau. Matthau plays Henry Graham, a spoiled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I return to Shakespeare again, specifically Hamlet. Just to clarify, neither of these are technically adaptations of the play, as in they are not using the original script in any way. They are just modern versions… sort of. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I took another look at films about Hustlers. The first film on my list, Ron Shelton’s White Men Can’t Jump starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, tells the story of Sidney Deane (Snipes) a fast-talking streetball hustler who works[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been considering checking out Blaxploitation films, ever since Cartoon Network’s animated version of Black Dynamite came out. I knew that, while it certainly was a very fun show, I didn’t have the vocabulary to know why it was utterly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I watched comedies about homebuilding, more specifically the horror that is a fixer-upper. The first film on my list was H. C. Porter’s Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas. Cary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I officially declare the Halloween season started, and to start things off in my month of horror films the subject vampire girls! The first on my list was one I’ve been hearing quite a bit about Ana Lily Amirpour’s A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week a did an old vs new take on a perennial Halloween classic, the Cat people. The first the films is one of Val Lewton‘s films directed by Jacques Tourneur. Telling the story of Irena(Simone Simon), a Serbian immigrant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My selection for the fifth week of my Halloween marathon was Japanese horror movies I started with one of my current favorite directors, Takashi Miike with one of his break out pieces Audition. Audition tells the story of Shigeharu Aoyama[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
