Laserdisc Rot

With January almost over I wanted to announce next month's 10 Movies 10 Decades . While normally I'd like to come up with an array of options and run a poll to see what other folks are interested in, like I did with January, I felt a need that for Black History Month to at least attempt to look into Black Cinema, specifically films made by Black directors. This has been an area of film that I'm still exploring and I felt a deep dive would be good. Here are my ten entries for next month: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) Pariah  (2011) When the Levee Breaks: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) Daughters of the Dust (1991) Tongues Untied  (1989) Shaft (1971) Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) The Blood of Jesus (1941) Murder in Harlem (1935) Within Our Gates (1920) When I started the first thing I looked into was how possible this experiment was - would I even be able to find 10 movies from 10 different decades, each with a Black director. This curiosity was less an indictme...

10m10d , or 10 movies 10 decades , is a fun challenge I gave myself to try to watch at least 10 new films over the span of a single month, each from a separate decade. It felt like a fun way to challenge myself to see new and different films. I wanted to start off 2023 by having a theme to the month and I ran a small online poll in the community for film lovers I hang out at, appropriately named Laserdisc Party . The four options were films looking at New York City over the decade; all black and white films; films based off of the favorite films of Laserdisc Party’s admin, Derek; or a themeless “dealer’s choice” of films kind of pulled out of a hat of my watchlist. Derek Edition won and I was happy for it as I appreciate his taste in movies (why I picked him as a theme to begin with). As a warning, this is gonna be pretty long because it is essentially ten mini film reviews rolled into one long blob of text. First up was the 2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Fo...

Hey, here's a quick greeting as a proof of concept that I'm making a blog about movies and my thoughts on them. A few bits about myself, I have an expansive collection of laserdisc that I'm pretty proud of. I have plans on a dedicated post on "why" my laserdisc collection exists in the future. Movies are something I'm a big fan of, as you've probably guessed. To me it's fascinating seeing how this art form has thrived and evolved since it first came around. That very fascination gave birth to a project I've been working on called "10 movies 10 decades" where I challenge myself to watch 10 films I haven't seen before, each from a different decade. Still polishing up my post on my January edition of this because I was so excited for these particular 10 films. Anyway, I'm planning on film deep dives and defenses (specifically Super Mario Bros.  (1993) which I'm a major advocate of), articles on my 10 movies 10 decades, and who kn...