When I received my instructions to draw The Godfather this morning I’m sure there were many good options, Sonny’s murder at the tollbooth and the horse in the bed scene come to mind. But ultimately, when you stop to think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” I’ve been wanting to do this one all month. I know it’s from having just watched it for the first time this January. But this is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The intent of this week’s selection was marketing and advertising. The first on my list, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, tells the story of a smarmy advertising executive under breaking under the stress of his deadline when he can’t think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to go with fifties science fiction… one was a classic and one… not so much. The first on my list, the classic, This Island Earth, was a film I’d known about for years and despite my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I decided to do something new. Two movies based on the same source material. The book in question is “The Hunter” the first of Donald E. Westlake’s “Parker” novels, written under the penname Richard Stark. Parker,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure this was one of my better ideas for a selection theme but I did it anyhow. As a fan of Quentin Tarantino’s early work (haven’t seen more than a half hour of both Kill Bills, haven’t seen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In honor of the fifth season of Game of Thrones starting last week I decided to look back and look at some of the bad fantasy movies that inspired all of the fantasy authors to do better. Part of me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again I fell back on doing another selection of Oscar nominees. For this week I went with films from 1961. The first on my list the Guns of Navarone was one I knew the name of for years but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to go with biopics of famous directors. (or in this case one famous and one notorious) The first, Gods and Monsters, tells us the story of the last days of the life of horror director James[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week my selection was based on two things. Magical Realism and Chocolate. I like Magical Realism. There’s something really cool about a setting where the fantasy elements are so low key yet so ubiquitous that you’re hardly aware that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
