For this week’s selection, I did films that were explicitly lit about Sherlock Holmes. Or to be more precise, films about reasonable facsimiles of Sherlock Holmes but really aren’t fooling anybody. On a nice side note these were pretty obscure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I while watching one of my favorite film theory youtube channels the other day when It spent a minute talking about British New Wave. Since I’d never even heard of British New Wave (at least not under that name) I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection, I picked a pair of melodramas that had the word “Heaven” in it. The first film on my list, All THat Heaven Allows, directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. Wyman plays Cary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The theme for this week’s selection is immortality be it the quest for eternal life and or what happens if you get it. So this all started when I first heard about Darren Aronofsky‘s The Fountain (okay I know I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to watch films where some of the great Hollywood first began their team ups. (Actually, I had hoped to do this one as a double header with “romantic comedies done right” but while the second film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s selection I decided to watch some adaptions of John le Carré’s spy thrillers. I’ve been a fan of le Carré’s work for a long time. I like the level of cynicism portraying the spy world as a place that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For my next selection of films for this Halloween season, I decided to do another foray of “old versus new” with yet another classic film I somehow never got around to seeing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The original 1956[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I originally thought of this week’s selection of arthouse vampire movies. However, maybe it’s my personal tastes, but while these films were certainly much more dramas than horror, I didn’t find them that artsy. So because of this, I had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After two weeks vampire films in a row (three if you ignore the brief respite with a week of alien invasion) I ended the Halloween season with films about haunted houses. To keep things interesting I went with two extremes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for this week’ selection I decided to go with films starring that legendary action hero, Frank Sinatra… yes really. Sinatra’s career in film was a lot more than just musicals. Having first only seen him in such films as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
