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 – #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 – #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 – #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…
In college, I learned how to play Settlers of Catan and loved it. A few years later, I got Dominion and Ticket to Ride. From there, my board game collection (and addiction) quickly expanded. We have a shelf stocked full of games of many sizes and varieties. Hardly a week goes by where my wife…
100 Film Favorites Countdown – #99: The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010) This is one of the most recent films on the list, and is likely to climb in ranking with time. Chances are The King’s Speech is familiar to a lot of you, seeing as it was the 2010 Best Picture winner, so I…
100 Film Favorites Countdown – #100: Manos: The Hands of Fate (Hal Warren, 1966) To kick off this Countdown of Countdowns, we’ve got a film widely regarded as one of the worst ever made. And yet, I couldn’t leave it off my list. Manos: The Hands of Fate is a 1966 independent film written and…
Hey everybody! My name is Brian Terrill. Diligent Earn This followers among you may remember me from the post a few months back about “Count Gauntly’s Horrors from the Public Domain,” the horror-host movie program I produce and host on Fairfax Public Access. Well, I also happen to keep a (somewhat rudimentary) film blog, Brian…