This week I watched comedies about business. (Or at least I thought I did.) The first on my list,David Swift’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, direct adaptation of the stage musical the same name which in turn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The problem with having a favorite genre is sooner than later you’ve seen all of the good stuff. When the biggest rule in your weekly double feature is to only watch films you’ve never seen before, you find yourself really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was watching a documentary on Network whitch pointed me towards Sydney Lumet’s other classic, Dog Day Afternoon. While looking for an appropriate companion, film, I found out there was a remake of it. So I decided to watch them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recently occurred to me that despite having watched Wizards, Lord of the Rings, Cool World, and the Mighty Mouse cartoon show, I have never watched any of the animated films that Ralph Baksh built his reputation on… You know… Adult[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recently, I was re-reading William Gibson’s collection of short stories, burning from. Burning Chrome introduces Gibson sprawl setting period the setting that provides the background for such box as new romancer period it also provides a source material for one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, after the first batch of this year’s Halloween marathon, I wanted to watch something with a bit more quality, and to really clear my palate with something funny. So this week I watched two zombie comedies that, coincidentally, were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Halloween marathon, I went back to the classics with James Whale‘s Bride of Frankenstein and its remake/sequel, Franc Roddam‘s The Bride. In Bride of Frankenstein, we find ourselves back in the Swiss Villa where Mary Shelly first wrote Frankenstein. Lord[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to watch some of the great western epics that both deconstruct the genre of the Western and in the process essentially do a biopsy of the end of an era. The first on my list, Sam[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My selections for this month had been pretty heavy in content. Because of this, I decided to clear my pallet with some nice fluffy comedies. The trouble was, that beyond not wanting to take another dive into screwball comedy I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I continued my break from anything too heavy in my film viewing and decided to mix two favorite genres, Musicals and Science Fiction. This didn’t go as well as I’d like. It was slim pickings, to begin with, and for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
