For this week I decided to look into films about the cutthroat industry of fashion. The first on my list, The Devil Wears Prada tells a predictable fable about sacrificing everything that matters to you for the sake of a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I let my enthusiasm get the better of me and I started my Halloween viewing early (at first I felt a little guilty about it but then I figured we start on Christmas before the Thanksgiving turkey has a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well after the dead serious batch from last week I decided to take the a slightly different direction in the next week of halloween with some vampire Comedies. I sort of found two ones… One that definitely on it’s way[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for this week’s selection I probably bit off a bit more than I could chew. A friend of mine told me about the Blind Dead series by Spanish director Amando de Ossorio. Like a complete idiot, I decided to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for this week of the Halloween season I decided on embracing some of the old classics and and even older cliche with Universal Sudios’ Mummy films. Our first fillm,The Mummy starring Boris Karloff was the one that I had been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After, yet again, not spending quite enough time deciding what this weeks theme would be and I fell back on an old favorite and went with watching a few more H.P.Lovecraft adaptations. The one’s I ended up going with were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After doing Lovecraft last week I figured I’d finish this Halloween series with my other favorite American Horror writer, Edgar Allen Poe as portrayed through the team of Roger Corman and Vincent Price. Corman did a cycle of eight Poe[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because of the election and in a fit of masochism I decided to go with films on the topic (based on this morning’s headlines I found this even more painful.) I’ve been slowly going through Preston Sturges’s shelf. Mostly for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s I was initially planning to do a couple of westerns in general but as I found I couldn’t find a couple of the titles I had listed, I narrowed it down to one of the great teams[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My original plan for this week was art theft. Unfortunately I didn’t do my homework quite as well as I should have, so that was not completely accurate. Instead I went with the slightly more general description of scams and heists. I had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
