Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #73: “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T”
100 Film Favorites – #73: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, 1953) What happens when you let Dr. Seuss helm a live-action feature film?
Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #74: “The Cabin in the Woods”
100 Film Favorites – #74: The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard & Joss Whedon, 2012) Warning: It is virtually impossible to write anything about this film without giving spoilers. If you haven’t seen it, just know it is a hilarious, creative horror/comedy which pokes fun at the conventions of the slasher genre, and horror…
Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #75: “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
100 Film Favorites – #75: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984) 25 entries down! We’re now officially one quarter of the way through the Countdown. We kick off the second quarter with the film that inspired the PG-13 rating.
Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #76: “Groundhog Day”
100 Film Favorites – #76: Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993) “That’s right, woodchuck-chuckers. It’s GROUNDHOG DAY!” Let me start off by saying I was sorely tempted to feature Groundhog Day as the first entry in this Countdown, and just repeat the exact same post a hundred times. But you’re probably glad I didn’t do that.…
Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #77: “Harold and Maude”
100 Film Favorites – #77: Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971) Hal Ashby (who also directed Being There) certainly has a talent for making offbeat films that leave an impression on the viewer. Harold and Maude tells the story of Harold, a “man” in his early 20s who is obsessed with death. Harold lives with…
Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #78: “Ernest Saves Christmas”
100 Film Favorites – #78: Ernest Saves Christmas (John R. Cherry III, 1989) It may be mid-July, but I’m in a saving-Christmas mood. Ernest Saves Christmas got some coverage in this past December’s “Christmas Classics Countdown” on my Brian Terrill Movie Night page, so I’ll try to keep this brief. Also, brevity is the soul…
Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #79: “Elmo Saves Christmas”
100 Film Favorites – #79: Elmo Saves Christmas (Emily Squires, 1996) “Every day can’t be Christmas, That wouldn’t be such a treat, You can get tired of chocolate candy When that’s all you eat.”
Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #80: “Zombieland”
100 Film Favorites – #80: Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 2009) And thus we embark on the…third tenth of our Countdown.
Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #81: “Do The Right Thing”
100 Film Favorites – #81: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) Time for another reputable, critically-acclaimed film. Coming so soon after the last one, you might start getting the idea that I’m some kind of sophisticated film critic. But don’t worry, we’re still in the first fifth of the list…there’s plenty of room left…
Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #82: “M”
100 Film Favorites – #82: M (Fritz Lang, 1931) This is the 19th post of the Countdown, and we’re finally to the first selection most “legitimate” film critics would approve of. The film, which is often presented with the subtitle Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (“A City Searches for a Murderer”), deals with a string of…