For this week’s theme I decided to take a break and do some lighter fare and watch some movies based on French comics. I’d seen the first of the live action adaptation of Asterix staring Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the suggestion of a friend I started experimenting with doing the ongoing theme of forgotten Oscar nominees whenever I didn’t have any better ideas, To start this exercise I decided to begin with the year of my birth, 1968. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I decided to look back at two films from the eighties that, while I certainly enjoyed at the time, never felt I liked them as much as their cult status suggested that I should. I figured[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve always enjoyed the art of theater and I can bore my friends to tears on things like different director’s approach to the same play, watching the same production in different seats, subtitles in an actor’s performance choices and set[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week I did the second of my “forgotten Oscars” selection though in this case, neither of these films are anything that I would call “forgotten” since 1976 was probably the best year for film for a long time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I decided to watch some films from Vincent Price’s early career, and by sheer happenstance, also the early career of Charles Bronson,. I had grown up with Vincent Price being carefully crafted self parody feeling kind of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Having enjoyed Sweet Smell of Success so much I decided to continue with the works of Alexander Mackendrick and the comedies he made for Ealing Studios in England starring Alec Guinness. The first film, Man in the White suit had Guinness[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fo this week’s lineup I decided to go with comedy remakes. Preferably modern remakes of older and dated films. When I first hear that someone had done a remake of the Marx Brothers ‘ A Night at the Opera my curiosity was so piqued[…]↓ 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…
