For this weeks selection I sort of went with dreams or to put it more closely films about personal fantasies… or at least that was the best explanation I can give at the moment for why I thought these two[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week;s selection was World War II Comedies. Doing their best to mix humor with the horrors of war. The first film of my selection, Kelly’s Heroes, Is a brilliant mixture of comedy, action and caper as a platoon of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This month I wanted to take a break from anything that was remotely serious and decided to watch the works of Italian comedian and director Roberto Benigni.. I had enjoyed his Academy award winning Life is Beautiful (though I must[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally got around to watching Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was about what I expected, stupid and fun at the same time with some good special effects. In short I found myself comparing it to a nice big[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to go with watching a few young adult films (or at least ones with young adult protagonists) The first film in my selection, Secondhand Lions stars Robert Duval and Micheal Caine as two eccentric Texas brothers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Having picked up a copy of The Hidden Fortress., one of my favorite Akira Kurosawa movies, from the library and from that I decided that my theme for the week would be remakes of Kurosawa films. The first in my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As an ecologist one of my father’s pet peeves is the effect of invasive species on an environment. (If you really want to set him off just bring up the subject of goats in the Mediterranean.) So for this week’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s selection was a bit of a comedy of errors. My original idea was to do foreign buddy cop films which went on a side route of finding german comedies which included a film called Seven Dwarves: Men Alone in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The basic idea for this week’s theme was supposed to be something to the effect of entertainers as members of the resistance in world war II, but in the end this became a bit of a stretch with the two films[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well this week I ended up doing films about hitmen. The first on my list was John Woo‘s classic, The Killer starring Chow Yun-fat. Chow plays the titular killer who during his latest hit is responsible for the blinding a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
