The baseline of this question is really, what’s your favorite movie from your favorite director? This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s your favorite move of all time or anything, but rather there’s a director whose work you really admire more than … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 26: One Director, One Movie
While reboots and remakes are the bane of many film fans and your casual viewers alike, there are a lot that have been great over the years for different reasons. While some try to just modernize it while sticking to … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 25: A Remake Or Reboot Better Than The Original
While we’ve talked about sequels and other aspects of franchise in this thirty day challenge, one area we haven’t tackled are the sequels that never were. Some films come out with big plans that they’re going to be a sprawling … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 24: Favorite Film You Wish Had Sequels
We’re going to go with a two-part question for this one, or the main question and a bonus question. The main one is what your favorite film is that was based on a novel. A lot of my favorite books … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 23: Favorite Film Based On A Novel
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
With movie theaters shut down and the tease of them coming back up being made previously, I got very excited and frustrated with that. With no new films out, the studios were bringing out older films and one of those … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 22: A Movie You Wish You’d Seen In The Theater
There are a lot of different reasons that a movie may not have aged well. For a lot of people, it’s hard to watch a Kevin Spacey movie anymore because of everything in the real world that has gone on. … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 21: A Movie You Love That Has NOT Aged Well
The effort of a decade, an untold number of men and women, resulted in a single moment that really did alter humanity forever. Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT). … Continue reading That’s One Small Step For The Politics Thread
We talked before about this in the other direction with movies that people seem to universally love but that you really don’t like, and now it’s time to flip the script. There are always films that are just trashed, do … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 20: A Movie Most People Hate But You Love
We’ve talked about a lot of different elements of movies with what we like and some of what we don’t, but now we pull it all together to talk about our favorite scene. These can be so wildly different from … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 19: Your Favorite Scene
They wuz robbed! The competition for best picture at the Academy Awards always leads to a lot of conversation, especially since the Academy always seems like what’s popular to the masses can’t really be the best picture. Sometimes, it feels … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 18: Robbed Of An Oscar!
I’ll admit, biopics and the like just aren’t my thing for a lot of reasons so we’re going to expand on this question just a little bit from what the original list asks. Instead of just focusing on biopics themselves, … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 17: Your Favorite Biopic
Coming of age in the 80s meant you got a wide range of actors and actresses that you could seriously crush on. While I was like a lot of my generation that totally crushed on Carrie Fisher in Return of the … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 16: Your First Movie Crush
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
This one I’ll admit that I tend to go a bit more for comfort TV than comfort film, but there are films that depending on the mood I go to just to clear my mind of what ails me. And, … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 15: Your Comfort Film
All my funny movies haven’t aged well. At least, that’s what it feels like. I went through my teens in the 80s when the comedies were for many at their peak, what with SNL alum from the 70s finding a … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 14: Funniest. Movie. Ever.
I continue to enjoy taking the opportunity to get little history refresher and reminders while doing the Tuesday PT simply because it takes my mind off the here and now for a few minutes and to remember that, hey, things … Continue reading It’s The Fall Of The Tuesday Politics Thread
With the end of The Clone Wars recently, I thought we were done with this period. Disney+ is looking to bring some new animated Star Wars material out in 2021 and they’ve announced Star Wars: The Bad Batch as the project. The series got a look … Continue reading Disney+ Announces Star Wars: The Bad Batch Series
Way back in the day, growing up in the ‘burbs in the early 80s as a teenager, you only had a few choices for watching movies at home. You had whatever was broadcast on the half dozen channels you had, … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 13: The Movie That Scared You The Most
Today’s question is one that was originally split but is one that I’m bringing together with a couple of variables in how it can be answered. With gender being a focal point of discussion, we don’t want to get too … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 12: Your Favorite Performance By An Actor
This is one of those pieces that’s just damn hard to write because it really means admitting it. I grew up on the original trilogy and it’s what got me into, well, everything. Comics, SF novels, movies, LaserDisc, and all … Continue reading 30 Day Film Challenge Day 11: A Sequel You Wish Wasn’t Made
