For this week of my Halloween double feature marathon, having watched many a movie with the modern charismatic witch, I decided to go back to the older stories. The kind where “witchcraft” meant deals with the Devil and witches were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, for better or for worse my monster marathon is over and I’m back once again to watching other genres. For this week’s theme I watched what I was originally going to call record store comedy, but one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Due to a hectic week, I decided to keep things light and went back to another one of my favorite genres, screwball comedy. Specifically this time screwball comedy with Scripps by the great Billy Wilder. The first on my list[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tis the season so here I am again watching Christmas films for the rest of the month. Of course, the problem with having favorite genres is that you quickly go through all the films you want to see. After a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In my continued search for Christmas movies I’ve never heard of the next obscure genre that I tried was crime comedies taking place in Christmas. The first of the year this was We’re No Angels starring Humphrey Bogart Peter Ustinov[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes it’s really hard to think of new ideas during the holidays, and because of that I ended up doing the exact theme that I did last week with criminals on christmas. Though in my defense, this time we’re not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now that the holiday is over, I thought I’d try and get as far away from that sort of thing as possible. In this case, I thought I’d try spy thrillers featuring the Mossad. For better or for worse, whether[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I watched a pair of thrillers involving people going undercover to infiltrate the mob… and perhaps vice versa. The first film on my list Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco tells the story of Joseph D. Pistone, (Johnny Depp), an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a way to clear my pallete of the dark nature of last week’s topic I chose a theme that I like to call “Sexy Western Comedy”. That is to say western comedies with a sex symbol as the lead.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s selection I’m calling musical Cinderella films. That is to say musical takes on the Cinderella story. (I was planning on calling it Cinderella musicals but one of them was dance numbers rather than singing.) My first film Jacques[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
