I was always disappointed with SPACEBALLS. Watched it again with Theo and...yeah...it just wasn't that funny. Too little too late a decade after STAR WARS. Weak casting in Bill Pullman and Daphne Zuniga. Waste of John Candy and Rick Moranis' time too. The John Hurt bit at the end with the Looney Tu...

Wow - that is a heck of a set list. I am jealous!

Sanjuro (1962). In this sequel to Yojimbo , Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) is asleep at a shrine when he is awakened by the conversation between nine young samurai who believe their clan has been corrupted. Iori (Yuzo Kayama) tells the others he believes his uncle, Lord Chamberlain Mutsuta (Yunosuke Ito)...

Yojimbo (1961). In the Edo period, a ronin named “Sanjuro” (Toshiro Mifune) wanders by chance into a small town in which two rival yakuza gangs are fighting for control of the gambling trade in the area: one led by Ushitora (Kyu Sazanka) who is aligned with sake merchant Tokuemon (Takashi Shimura),...

I've been DUNE-d out, though the packaging is cool! I cannot get enough of it...lol...I have the Arrow special edition set but it does not include the extended 177 minute cut, something I woulf love to have. The price is insane for it...tempting but I don't want to spend all that money for a cut of...

Oh man, that Dune set is super tempting...

I gave the movie 4 ½ stars. Here’s my letterboxd review. https://letterboxd.com/johnkholm/film/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning/ The entire movie has an apocalyptic tone and is filled with religious and mythological imagery. All of humanity is threatened with extinction by an evil entity that...

The Bad Sleep Well (1960). In the midst of a massive bureaucratic corruption scandal, Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) marries Yoshiko (Kyoko Kagawa), the daughter of the Vice President of Public Corporation (a government funded entity). It seems that the company was involved in a major bribery kickba...

I don't know why anyone would want to make a movie out of this subject material to begin with.

Interesting - even though I do not like this film I am very curious as to how this version differs from the theatrical cut. Will definitely check this out if the opportunity arises.

The Hidden Fortress (1958). Matashichi (Kamatari Fujiwara) and Tahei (Minoru Chiaki) are two lowly and cowardly peasants who are looking to profit from a war that has erupted between the Yamana and Akizuki clans. They lose everything and are forced into labor by the winning side, the Yamana clan. A...

The Lower Depths (1957) – Based on Maxim Gorky’s 1902 play, this film takes place during Japan’s Edo period. At the bottom of a garbage pit there is a tenement of poor people who live together under the oppressive thumb of landlord Rokubei (Nakamura Ganjiro II) and his wife Osugi (Isuzu Yamada). Th...

Throne of Blood (1957). In feudal Japan, Lord Tsuzuki of Spider’s Web Castle (Takamaru Sasaki) finds his fortresses under attack by a rival. His generals Miki (Minoru Chiaki) and Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) manage to turn the tides of battle and successfully turn back the enemy attacker. On their way ...

I Live in Fear (1955). Dr. Harada (Takashi Shimura) is a dentist who also serves as mediator for Domestic Relations court. He is called in to help arbitrate a case in which the immediate family members of its aging patriarch Kiichi Nakajima (Toshiro Mifune) desire the court to find him mentally unf...

I am not at all ashamed to admit that I have thoroughly enjoyed the American Godzilla films (except for the one with Matthew Broderick...which to me is not a Godzilla film). Will see this one without hesitation or apology!