100 Film Favorites – #87: The Halloween Tree (Mario Piluso, 1993) We’ve come to the first made-for-TV film on this list. It won’t be the last. If you don’t think TV-movies are kosher for consideration on a “favorite films” list, you’ve been warned. The Halloween Tree is an animated adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1972 novel…
100 Film Favorites – #88: *batteries not included (Matthew Robbins, 1987) This may well be the best movie ever made to have a title beginning with a punctuation mark. Or at least, the best such film to make this Countdown.
100 Film Favorites – #89: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (Peter Hewitt, 1991) “You might be a king, or a little street-sweeper, But sooner or later you dance with the reaper.”
100 Film Favorites – #90: The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999) 10 posts down. 90 to go! In the words of the Ice King, primary antagonist of Adventure Time, “When you have stanky old wizard eyes, sometimes you see things that are real, and other times, it’s like crazy crazy crazy in-your-face all the…
100 Film Favorites – #91: Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012) This is probably going to be a short entry. Then again, I’ve thought that several times before, and yet all the posts thus far have turned out pretty long.
100 Film Favorites – #92: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006) Captain Jack. Johnny Depp. Davy Jones. Giant Squid.
100 Film Favorites – #93: Beanstalk (Michael Davis, 1994) By all accounts, Beanstalk is not a great film. I can’t guarantee you’ll like it. I can’t even guarantee I like it. But I have had a long and complex relationship with this film, and so it warrants a spot. Granted, the spot it warrants probably…
100 Film Favorites – #94: “The Silence of the Lambs” (Johnathan Demme, 1991) A guide to pairing food and wine, for all of you sophisticated gourmands out there: Red Meat – – – Red Wine Seafood – – – White Wine Liver & Fava Beans – – – Chianti, preferably a Nice one “The Silence…
100 Film Favorites – #95: “Secondhand Lions” (Tim McCanlies, 2003) Let me be the first to admit that I have a soft spot both for movies where an older protagonist reflects nostalgically on their childhood (see: “The Sandlot”), and for movies where an eccentric figure has adventures and ultimately achieves prosperity due to his or…
100 Film Favorites – #96: Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979) Adapted from a novel by Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski, Being There chronicles the misadventures of Chance (Peter Sellers, in his last film released during his lifetime). Chance is a simple-minded man who has spent his life tending the garden of an elderly, well-off gentleman in…