Because I definitely needed something funny to clear my pallets from existentialist crime films and I had just seen Captain America: Civil War (which I’m bound to comment on soon) I decided to do Superhero Comedy for this week’s theme. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So for this weeks selection I went for French Fantastic Mysteries. Movies that questioned reality as we know it and left us scratching our heads. Eugene Francois Vidocq was one of the first and great pioneers of forensic science inspiring[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The official working theme on this one was “Crime Comedies” but in the long run I’m not completely sure of how accurate that ended up… you all be the judge. The first film my list Buffet froid (Cold Cuts) by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I decided to do seventies science fiction. Specifically seventies science fiction that as a lover of science fiction I knew all about, read reviews and analysis of in dozens of textbooks on the subject, but for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for this week’s theme I planned to do highwaymen. However due to some technical difficulties I was only able to watch one of my pics, Plunkett & MacCleane. The film shares the name of two actual highwaymen, but that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I confess, because of whenI got back from my trip too latte to get my Scarecrow selection for the week but fortunately my library picks suggested a theme and I decided to catch up on Studio Ghibli. Much as I’m a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As an excuse to watch Screwball comedies again I decided to focus on the team up between two individuals not usually associated with comedy, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. I’m embarrassed to admit one of the reasons I’d never gotten[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I enjoyed having the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on in the background for the past two weeks and in the process thought that this would make a great theme for this week. This led to picking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h23J5YC98FMTime Travel is alway one of the more fun sub genres of Scence fiction. (As a SciFi purist and a bit of a pedant, I’ll insist it’s actually part of fantasy but mostly out of tradition Science Fiction is stuck with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m afraid I kind of botched this one. The title of my planned them was “Don Quixote will kill us all” The idea being film attempts at Don Quixote being complete disasters for the creators. Unfortunately that particular bit of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
