Jodie Foster movies
Bugsy Malone
Teen gangs fight with pies
Taxi Driver
Vet wants scum off streets
Freaky Friday
Teen body swaps with mom
Next:
Iggy Pop is in the soundtrack
Repo Man
Iggy wrote, performed title song
Bill, The Galactic Hero
Iggy wrote, performed theme song
Coffee and Cigarettes
Hey, he can act, too!
Next up:
Best movie soundtracks with electronica
I’m not certain I know the diffference between electronica and electronic, but here goes:
Beverly Hills Cop
Young brash Eddie Murphy vehicle
The Breakfast Club
Those kids destroyed the library
The Terminator
Don’t worry, he’ll be back
Next: Henry Mancini soundtracks
Victor/Victoria
Something strangely attractive about Victor.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Sadly marred by racial impersonation.
Experiment in Terror
Score heightens tension and fear.
NEXT: Films with animated intros
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It’s a great big double-ya!
A Shot In the Dark
“Kato, you swine! Not now!”
Monsters Inc
If I didn’t have you
Next: Non-Disney animations
The Iron Giant
Boy, giant robot become pals
Castle in the Sky
Best Miyazaki IMHO - soaring, adventurous
Ice Age
Follows ragtag group of critters
Next up:
Miyazaki films
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Girl learns to trust herself
Spirited Away
People can become such pigs
Howl’s Moving Castle
A girl and her scarecrow
Next: Least favorite Pixar movies
Ratatouille
Just never clicked for me
Cars 2
Underwhelming sequel; haven’t watched again
Coco
Almost put me to sleep
Obviously YMMV. To each their own.
Next up:
Movies with a bad dog
Marley and Me
Guaranteed to make you cry
Turner and Hooch
Dog helps Hanks solve crimes
Cujo
Nice dog? Wanna Milk Bone?
Next: Movies with animals in title but not about animals
They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
Dance marathoner breaks down and …
The Sterile Cuckoo
First love is bittersweet love.
Reservoir Dogs
Tipping? Always a good idea.
Next: Movies with one-word titles
Jaws
50th Anniversary-- ocean still worrying.
Deliverance
Also places containing armed rednecks.
Titanic
See? Even with bigger boat…
NEXT: Movies that made you afraid of something specific.
You’ve Been Trumped
Shows how awful he is
The Amityville Horror
My first haunting movie - yikes!
Apocalypse Now
Water-buffalo slaughter shook me
Next up:
Movies set along a major river
Show Boat
Life on Old Man River
Deliverance
Buddy trip goes to hell
The African Queen
Where will the honeymoon be?
Next: Movies set in Africa
The African Queen
Bogart, Hepburn, in river adventure.
Casablanca
Drama, comedy, and “La Marseillaise.”
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Story of a Coke bottle.
Next: Movies about Football
The Blind Side
Sandra Bullock never looked better
Varsity Blues
Concussed Billy Bob keeps playing
Any Given Sunday
Washed up coach inspires team
Next: Baseball movies
Damn Yankees
Baseball musical with the Devil
Angels in the Outfield
Kids movie with divine intervention
The Pride of the Yankees
Gary Cooper as Lou Gherig
Next: Movies where the villain falls to his/her death
Saboteur
Fall from Statue of Liberty.
Snow White & the Seven Dwarves
Evil Queen tumbles off cliff.
Batman
The Joker falls from helicopter.
NEXT: Movies where the villain doesn’t win, but doesn’t die
The Dark Knight
Joker goes to Arkham Asylum
The Watchmen
Veidt remains in arctic solitude
Amadeus
Salieri is committed to sanitarium
Next: Movies that take place over a considerably long period of time
Nitpick: it’s just Watchmen.
Movies that take place over a considerably long period of time
Atonement
Briony ages about fifty years
Cloud Atlas
From 1849 to beyond 2321
2001: A Space Odyssey
Story jumps six million years
Pass.
Next: Movies that take place over a considerably long period of time
Dreamchild
Long life of Alice Liddell.
63 Up
63-year cross-section of several Britons.
It’s a Wonderful Life
George Bailey, childhood to middle-age.
NEXT: Biographies of people who were alive when the film was released.