14/09/2012: A Fistful of Dollars [1964]

Westerns are one genre I have watched very little of. I've seen a few but in general I have little knowledge of the genre beyond visuals of cowboys and gun fights. So, in order to correct this and broaden my film knowledge I figured I should check out a healthy slice of westerns. I have however decided that that slice will be the Spaghetti Western sub-genre, and what better way than to start at the beginning of it all with Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars.

24/07/2012: Blazing Saddles [1974]

It’s been a slow week after The Dark Knight Rises, but that trilogy was a lot of movie to digest. My movie loving friend had recently suggested that I check out Blazing Saddles, and was so adamant they went and dug out their copy for me a few days later. By then, I had pretty much forgotten why I was supposed to watch it or what it was about. Turns out that Blazing Saddles is a Mel Brooks spoof western, which many argue is better than Spaceballs. I say that after watching it, there is little wonder it makes it onto so many top comedic movie ever lists.

06/07/2012: Catch .44 [2011]

Sometimes when I watch a movie it will just scream the name of another movie at me. I don’t know if I’m picking up on some underlying similarities or if just one thing will set it off, but throughout the entirety of Catch .44, my mind silently, and quite belligerently yelled Reservoir Dogs at me. But does Catch .44 bare more similarities to one of Tarantino’s masterpieces than just an interesting and irrelevant dinner conversation for an opening scene?

Three Vampire Movies That Won't Admit It

After just finishing Cronos I realized that I had seen a couple of unconventional and very unique vampire movies recently. I decided that, I would see if I could compile a list of the more unique, re-inventions of the typical vampire movie, things that verged on minor obscurity and a none of them even mention the word vampire. The three I could think of were Cronos, The Wisdom of Crocodiles and Near Dark.