36 Hours (1964)

I was over the moon when I found a secondhand DVD of this film for $2. I’d seen it once ages ago, and thought it was quite a riveting story. It’s full of of double bluffs and psychological warfare between a pair of my favorite 60s actors, Rod Taylor and James Garner. Based on a […]

London Has Fallen, but True Love Prevails: a summary

STRAP. IN. This movie truly took the themes of toxic masculinity and racism found in Olympus Has Fallen and told them to HOLD. ITS. BEER. Clearly, based on the length of this post, London Had Fallen exceeded the normal amounts of crazy that these action movies aim for. ENJOY OUR RAGE. 1. OH COOL! *Different* […]

Olympus has Fallen | White House Down… but 3 months earlier…

Despite our VERY different film tastes, both of us love super hardcore action-bro movies. They are overly serious, enforce ridiculous stereotypes, and usually contain all the same dialogue. It is always fun to sit in a packed out theater on opening weekend with all of the bros who are cheering and just laugh cry through […]

Death on the Run, aka Moving Target (1967)

In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that I saw this film referenced in a list of inspiration for Quirt Tarantula’s Thrice Upon a Rhyme in Dollywood. While personally I’ve watched none of Quirt’s films (for reasons) I’ve loved Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful […]

Funny Face (1957)

Splashy musicals really had their moment in the 1950s. I’m not going to pretend that Funny Face is one of the most important ones, but it was directed by Stanley Donen…who also made Singin’ in the Rain, AKA maybe the greatest musical of all time. There’s some lovely Gershwin tunes, stars I can’t resist, and […]

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

I own this movie because it came along in a cheap box set of 20th Century Fox films with How to Steal a Million, the film I actually wanted to buy. Hollywood Cavalcade was made barely a decade after the birth of talkies, but fully leans into nostalgia for the era of silent films. The story begins […]

Cat Ballou (1965)

I liked this film immensely as a teenager and impulsively bought it when I was 17. At the time, I thought it was a better film than it actually is, but rewatching it today was still kinda fun. Nat King Cole (in his last film appearance) and Stubby Kaye serve as musical narrators. They pop […]

Superman (1978)

I watched Richard Donner’s Superman when I was a teenager, but Marlon Brando and his inexplicable fake British accent were so boring that I skipped through the Krypton scenes. And maybe I fast forwarded the Glenn Ford/Kansas part too. (I’d already watched the Max Fleischer cartoons, the George Reeves series, Lois and Clark, and Superman: […]

Emmeline’s Film Collection

Inspired by my cohort’s scheme of watching through her respective film collection, I have decided to follow suit and do the same, but with a slight caveat: I am only watching my movies that I have not seen since beginning to log all my film viewing on Letterboxd approximately three years ago. Over at Letterboxd […]

Final Thoughts and the Final Film | White Christmas | Film No. 60

The review of the LAST FILM IN MY COLLECTION!!!! is below… Before jumping into the review, I have a few thoughts from this challenge. In a little under 4 months, I watched all 60 movies that I own. My goal was to actually watch the films that I own and figure out if there were […]