AndyDursin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:45 am Coming April 23rd

Hey, my birthday! I may check this out.
I do have the single disk DVD that includes Murders in the Rue Morgue but depending on the price...

(The cover art does seem pretty underwhelming)

It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) 3/5 My final viewing for the season, this vaguely Capra-esque effort puts a kindly tramp in the seasonally vacant mansion of a rich man and from there he collects a few down-and-out ex-soldiers trying to find work. Perhaps a bit long-winded but Gale Storm is a rea...

The Blue Carbuncle (1984) - Jeremy Brett The Blue Carbuncle (1968) - Peter Cushing The Granada production is routinely watched in our house at Christmas time and, in common with most of this Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series, is a superior entertainment, well adapted and performed (unless you ha...

The Cheaters (1945) 2/5 I hesitate to post this one, probably no one here has heard of it and it really isn't that good, a B-movie My Man Godfrey knockoff. Joseph Schildkraut, best known as a character actor, stars with Billie Burke and Eugene Pallette, no big stars here. A down on his luck actor i...

Donovan's Reef (1963) 4/5

Don't recall when I first saw this, many years ago, but this has always been a favorite, movie equivalent of comfort food. More free-wheeling than profound, hitting the right (expected) notes, and being a big John Wayne fan doesn't hurt.

Deagle-Deagle-Deagle…! - Gremlins (1984): 8/10 http://media.giphy.com/media/l2YWDVBDEhAAJSeQg/giphy.gif For those who like their Holiday movies plucked from the "naughty" list. :P Haven't watched Gremlins since it was in theaters. You must have the year wrong, it could not have been that ...

mkaroly wrote: ↑Wed Dec 05, 2018 5:51 pm ...My good friends said SOLO was a decent movie..., It is a film that I feel I can go for the rest of my life without seeing without worry that I am missing something.

That is absolutely true...of any movie.

Since Halloween season horror viewing seems to be an annual tradition around here, as I began to watch a few movies where Christmas played some part, I wondered if documenting such viewing had ever been of interest to forum visitors. If nothing else, consider this a reminder that White Christmas is ...

The conclusion to my seasonal viewing, the "Halloween" episode of The Andy Griffith Show ... The Haunted House (1963) A favorite episode of my favorite TV series. Andy, Barney, and Gomer investigate a "haunted" house. This has all the expected trappings, ghostly moans, spirit rap...

Theater of Blood (1972) 3/5 I am a fan of Vincent Price's sometimes campy 1960s horrors and this is among the better ones with it's similarities to the (superior) The Abominable Dr. Phibes . However, the plot runs the risk of becoming slightly tedious when, after the first few victims, most of the ...

I decided to start my serious Halloween season viewing with a few Dracula movies I hadn't seen within memory... Dracula (1979) 2/5 I thought this would be my first viewing but after watching it I believe that I may have seen it before (or maybe it was just the familiar story elements?) Langella made...

Two final horror shorts, Transylvania 6-5000 (1963) Among the last of the Merrie Melodies but still very clever as Bugs matches wits with vampire, Count Bloodcount. Bewitched Bunny (1953) A version of the Hansel and Gretel tale has the children lured into Witch Hazel's home for roasting. Of course t...

More animated "horrors"... Claws for Alarm (1953) Basically a remake of Scaredy Cat but this time the "haunting" is not so obviously mice. Porky and Sylvester check into a haunted looking hotel at their peril. This version ending with Sylvester and Porky making a hasty retreat in...

This time a pair of Looney Tunes,
Broom-Stick Bunny (1956)
Trick-or-treating Bugs, in the guise of a witch, visits Witch Hazel; very funny with surreal backgrounds.

Hyde and Hare (1955)
Bugs meets Dr. Jekyll. A one-joke short but these never out-stay their welcome.

OK, close enough to the 31st to dip my toe into "Halloween" viewing. Start with a brace of Merrie Melodies ... Scaredy Cat (1948) Sylvester (paired with Porky) encounter a house "haunted" by mice, until Sylvester develops a backbone... Hair-Raising Hare (1946) Bugs is lured by Pe...