In honor of the final week of March Madness I decided the perfect choice for this week would be some basketball films I’d been curious about for who knows how long. I figured this was as good an excuse to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to go with something lighter this week so I went with a few comedies on the theme of Holidays. The film that had inspired this idea was Monsieur Hulot’ Holiday by Jacques Tati. I was familiar with Tati’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This weekI decided to go for some comfort viewing with one of my favorite subgeneras of science fiction, cyberpunk. Regrettably due to the rules of my dipping into Scarecrow’s collection, most of the examples of the genre on film (english[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week I wanted to look at some films fit which under a category I like to call Western Noir. Though the number one films that I thought filled that description, No Country For Old Men, I had already seen.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I was inspired to go and watch dreamlike films where girls, like Alice in Wonderland, go down the rabbit hole, into an amazing, illogical fantasy dream land… Not Alice in Wonderland itself mind you… I’d seen most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While reading a review by Roger Ebert on one of the films I reviewed last week he made a point about comedies being products if their cultures and were especially funny in the context of the countries they were made[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week I decided to watch some movies about some of the great lovers of history and see what happened. The first film on my list, Fellini’s Casanova. The tells the story of famous lover Giacomo Casanova based on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I’m back and back to watching my weekly selection and decided to dip once again into World War Two, and to keep things interesting I thought I’d focus on the Pacific Theater. While I’d been aware of my first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I started this week’s selection my basic idea was “live action cartoons” based on the way the film on my list had been described. But since I wasn’t having much luck finding a second film that fit that criteria[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been a fan of Doug Walker’s Nostalgia Critic page for some time. While I don’t pretend to agree with him all the time, his analysis is always good and his points are sound. One of my favorite series he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
