I’d recently watched Takashi Miike‘s adaptation of Blade of the Immortal, a film I enjoyed very much. A friend of mine, who is an even bigger fan of Miike’s work than I am, said this was his favorite Miike film since[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this weeks my topic was… well, it’s tempting to say secret agent… or assassins or… let’s be blunt what we mean is preprogrammed killing machines. The first film on my list, American Ultra tells the story of Mike Howell,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I started to skim the bottom of my list of science fiction films I hadn’t seen yet. I ended up watching a tiny sub-genre that I will choose to refer to as naval time travel… that is to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With Christmas coming in less than a week I found that it was time to start to get my quota of seasonal holiday films over with. I decided to go with my favorite holiday subject, Santa Claus, and all of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To start up the new year in a slightly optimistic note I decided to watch a few comedies and check off a few more items on my Cary Grant list. The first film on my list was one I’d been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple of months ago I did a group of movies about people who were blatantly and totally not Sherlock Holmes. Even if they claimed or even believed to be. This week I decided to go with films about the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since last week’s selection was a little artsier than I expected, I decided to clear my palette with total fluff. I went with a small handful of superhero films from Hong Kong. (Quick note, for the sake of this post[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s selection started with an interesting thread. First I was trying to take another crack at magical realism a topic I always enjoy but have trouble finding good examples. This led me to the first film on today’s list Time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to do another batch of con artist films. The first on my list was Irvin Kershner’s The Film-Flam Man with George C Scott and Michael Sarrazin. Sarazan plays Curley an army deserter who is in hiding in Kentucky,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkaaUuQwRZYMy parents have been doing a movie night with some friends in their neighborhood and based on what they were watching last week and a film I had put off watching for a very long time I decided to take[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
