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2,500 Movies Challenge
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A blog that follows my progress as I attempt to watch 2,500 movies on DVD and Blu-Ray, including films from all around the world and spanning as many genres as I can muster. A new movie is posted each and every day.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1805 )
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#2,874. After the Fox (1966) - The Films of Peter Sellers
Written by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Seems Like Old Times).Directed by Vittorio de Sica (Bicycle Thieves, The Children are Watching Us).Starring Peter... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,873. The Mouse That Roared (1959) - The Films of Peter Sellers
Years before taking on three roles in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers played a trio of characters in The Mouse That Roared, a 1959 comedy... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,872. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - War in the Pacific Triple Feature
A combined U.S. / Japanese production, Tora! Tora! Tora! is the epic retelling of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, which compelled the United States to enter... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,871. The Thin Red Line (1998) - War in the Pacific Triple Feature
It must be twenty years since I last watched Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, and I had forgotten what an incredible motion picture it is. Read more
Posted on 29 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,870. Mister Roberts (1955) - War in the Pacific Triple Feature
I was listening to the DVD commentary that the late Jack Lemmon had recorded for 1955’s Mister Roberts, and right off the bat he talked about the two men... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,869. The Red House (1947) - Edward G. Robinson Triple Feature
A suspenseful, sometimes spooky film noir, The Red House weaves an intriguing story that, from time to time, will have the hairs on the back of your neck... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,868. Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) - Edward G. Robinson Triple Feature
Director John Farrow’s 1948 movie Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a unique film noir in that it blends elements of the supernatural into the mix. Read more
Posted on 25 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,867. Scarlet Street (1945) - Edward G. Robinson Triple Feature
The man behind such classics as Metropolis and M, Fritz Lang fled Germany in 1933 when Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels tried to make him the head of th... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,866. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) - Peter O'Toole Triple Feature
By the time MGM released Goodbye Mr. Chips in 1969, big-budget musicals were already on their way out. But that didn’t stop the studio from giving this movie... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,865. The Ruling Class (1972) - Peter O'Toole Triple Feature
Peter O’Toole was nominated for Best Actor eight times by the Academy. He never won it.Occasionally, it was just bad timing. O’Toole was brilliant in Lawrence o... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,864. Becket (1964) - Peter O'Toole Triple Feature
In 1968, Peter O’Toole played England’s King Henry II in The Lion in Winter, a movie I adore. In that award-winning film, O’Toole’s Henry was a force of... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,863. Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) - Burt Reynolds Triple Feature
You go into Smokey and the Bandit II, Hal Needham’s follow-up to his runaway 1977 hit, expecting more of the same.No, check that; you go into this 1980 movie... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,862. The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973) - Burt Reynolds Triple Feature
The production of 1973’s The Man Who loved Cat Dancing was rocked by a major scandal. After spending the evening of February 10th with members of the cast and... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,861. Fuzz (1972) - Burt Reynolds Triple Feature
Burt Reynolds gets top billing in director Richard A Colla’s Fuzz, but it’s actually an ensemble piece with a number of great actors, all doing their part to... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,860. Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) - Kino Lorber...
Soft music plays as the film’s opening credits, elegant and ornate, flash against a red velvet backdrop. It feels like the start of a soap opera. Read more
Posted on 11 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,859. The Quest (1986) - Kino Lorber Releases
Also released as Frog Dreaming, 1986’s The Quest gets off to an exciting start. A drunken Neville (Peter Cummins) is fishing in a small pond. There is no... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,858. Iceman (1984) - Kino Lorber Releases
The opening scenes of Fred Schepisi’s Iceman feel as if they were lifted from John Carpenter’s The Thing. Something has been found in the ice, and is flown be... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,857. Crossed Swords (1977) - Kino Lorber Releases
“I will set down a tale…it may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition.It may have happened. It may not have happened. Read more
Posted on 05 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,856. Killdozer (1974) - Kino Lorber Releases
We open in outer space. A meteor has drifted from its orbit and plummets towards earth, eventually crashing onto the beach of a remote island. Read more
Posted on 03 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
#2,855. The Brink's Job (1978) - Kino Lorber Releases
During the first ten minutes of William Friedkin’s 1978 film The Brink’s Job, we tag along with Boston safecracker Tony Pino (Peter Falk) and his crew: Sandy... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES