100 Film Favorites – #33: Doctor Dolittle (Richard Fleischer, 1967) Today’s pick is probably the highest-ranking instance of a film that I love, but pretty much everyone else hates. It’s the 1967 musical adaptation of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle series, about an eccentric veterinarian who can actually “Talk to the Animals.” The music was written…
100 Film Favorites – #34: Follow Me, Boys! / Mr. Holland’s Opus (Norman Tokar, 1966 / Stephen Herek, 1995) “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Today we come to the Countdown’s one and only double feature. I know this technically pushes the grand total to 101 Film Favorites, but…
100 Film Favorites – #35: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003) Originally, I prefaced this entry with some information about how posts were going up daily over here on EarnThis, and that the new site offered “an improved, multimedia Brian Terrill Movie Night experience devoid of typos.” Hopefully…
100 Film Favorites – #36: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983) Props to all of you who saw this coming. Today we wrap up the Star Wars saga with its final chapter to date, Return of the Jedi. “Jedi” takes place roughly a year after the events of “Empire,” and…
100 Film Favorites – #37: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980) Today, we continue the Star Wars saga with the series’ most critically-acclaimed entry, The Empire Strikes Back. The film’s opening crawl explains that three years have passed since the events of “A New Hope,” and the Rebels have established…
100 Film Favorites – #38: Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) (George Lucas, 1977) [For a more authentic experience, imagine that the following text is scrolling up and back toward a vanishing point in the middle of your screen.] Maybe you’ve been waiting for this one to pop up. Well, here it is: George…
100 Film Favorites – #39: The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) “So let it be written, so let it be done.” We kick off the 30s with a film truly deserving of a label so often tossed about in recent years…epic. The Ten Commandments, was the final film directed by Cecil B. Demille, a…
100 Film Favorites – #40: The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957) Just call me suburbanization, ‘cuz I’m at the end of the ’40s. And now, for our 61st post, a film in which Obi-Wan Kenobi builds a bridge for the pirate king from Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson.
100 Film Favorites – #41: Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995) In the last post I mentioned a relative shortage of Disney so far (well, except for Dead Man’s Chest, Holes, Ernest Saves Christmas (through Touchstone), Atlantis, Wreck-It Ralph, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, Darby O’ Gill & The Little People, and National Treasure) Okay, so maybe there…
100 Film Favorites – #42: Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1991) “No one plots like Gaston, takes cheap shots like Gaston, plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston.” I don’t know about you, but I have a weakness for those “my year in review” Facebook apps that gather up your old…