Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE

by JB

“Oh, man! Oh, God! Oh, man! Oh, God! Oh, man! Oh, God!
The perfect film for Junesploitation’s “Thriller Day.”

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: The "Lost" Columns

by JB

Huddle up for a brief announcement: this is the last “Drunk of Foolish Pleasures” column. (No crying -- I promised myself [sob] that we can get through this together without [sniff] making a scene.)

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: The Wild Bunch

This is the Western my students always liked the least…

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: White Zombie

by JB

I made brief mention of this title last Scary Movie Month. The relatively recent Cary Roan Blu-ray release is a revelation.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: The Serendipity of Shelved Movies

by JB

Like the toys in Toy Story, the discs in my movie collection talk to each other when no one is around…

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: A Few Things I Noticed Watching American Graffiti for the 100th or 101st Time

Thanks to ever-vigilant Adam Riske, I got to see American Graffiti last weekend—for free!

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Last week I had the good fortune to attend a screening at the Music Box Theatre’s Second Annual 70mm Film Festival; they were showing a newly-struck, archival print of Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Wow.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: They're Doing the Mash...The Monster Mash

by JB

Last week, ever-alert former student Sean Rogers shared with me some movie news. He thought that I would be interested in the story.

If by “interested” he meant “terrified,” I think he might be right.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Finding Heironymous Merkin

by JB

“There’s nothing worse than an itch… you just can’t scratch.”
--Leon (Brion James) in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982)

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Five Things I Noticed While Watching A Hard Day's Night for the 186th or 187th Time

by JB

Of course, you should all go out and purchase the new Criterion Collection Blu-ray disc of A Hard Day’s Night, BUT…

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Five Things I Noticed While Watching The Godfather Again for the Eighty Sixth or Eighty Seventh Time

by JB

Cinemark Theaters and AMC Theaters are once again trotting out a classic film series this summer. Last week, I attended a screening of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece The Godfather. Have you seen it? It’s very good.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: The Maltese Falcon

by JB

Is John Huston’s 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon the first film noir?

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Chinatown

by JB

Want to know how much I love this movie? I named my son after the main character.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Plunder Road and the Rules of Film Noir

by JB

Bad news, gentle readers: in this week’s film noir there’s no Marie Windsor.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: City That Never Sleeps

This week we take a look at an obscure film noir that peers into the dark heart of a big city and the tangled lives of the people (and one rabbit) who live there.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: The Killing

For the next few weeks, Dear Reader, I intend to take you on a grim and rain-glazed trip to the Big City after dark. We will become embroiled in crime, we will fall in love with the wrong dame, we will find ourselves in over our heads, and we will ultimately be destroyed by corruption, avarice, and our own blackest motivations.

It’ll be fun! Won’t you come along?

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Our Robot Friends

Frequently here at F This Movie!, we receive feedback from entities that are not necessarily human.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: 25 Reasons to Give Mamma Mia! a Second Look (Or First Look, If You Have Never Seen It Before, or Third Look If You’re Still Not Convinced.)

This week, I send letters to the three men who “dot-dot-dotted” with my mother that crazy summer fifty-two years ago in an attempt to find my real father. And I dance with scuba flippers on!

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Quadrophenia

Last week, in response to my award-winning column on Tommy, charming and delightful reader Myke brought up that "other" film from The Who: Quadrophenia. Therein lies a tale.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Tommy

Oh, I cannot tell you what this film meant to me when I was thirteen...