Well ’tis the season, so It’s time for this year’s Christmas marathon. Starting things out are a pair of spy thrillers that just happen to take place during Christmas. The first on the list, Renny Harlin’s The Long Kiss Goodnight,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s entry for this year’s Christmas Marathon, I watched classic Christmas comedies featuring some of the old school comic actors. First on my list was George Pal’s The Great Rupert, directed by Irving Pichel, tells the story of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I needed something to clear my pallet of the holiday season. So I went for something different, steampunk wuxia. The movies I saw were listed as a two-parter, doing a very loose retelling of the origin of the Chen style of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I started my selection for the week in the general theme of world war one. As I looked for films I hadn’t seen, or thought would go with films that I had already put on my list. The end result[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Continuing my world war I theme, I watched French world war I films. Considering France was one of the countries hardest hit by the war, l thought that perspective would be especially interesting. The first film on my list, Jean[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a long time anime fan, I’m very familiar with the trope of magical girlfriends. Because of this, I thought I’d look at examples in western films. This wasn’t as easy as it sounds. For one thing, I’ve seen a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve always enjoyed modern folklore involving UFOs and related esoterica. Because of this, for this week’s selection, I chose films featuring the beings referred to as Men in Black. Keep in mind, when I say Men in Black, I’m not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I watched artistic thrillers about serial killers. ones that were stylistic enough that it’s hard to call them horror films, no matter how hard you try. The first film on my list. Charles Laughton’s “The Night of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You’d think after doing serial killers last week I’d get as far away from the topic as possible until Halloween. Instead, I double down watching films about how the media hypes serial killers. The first film on my list Oliver[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I finally got around to watching another series of classics that, for assorted reasons, I’ve never gotten too. In this case, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope’s The Road To series. For years, I’ve mostly seen films that were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
