October 4th, 2014: One Week (1920)
A bride (Sybil Seely) and groom (Buster Keaton) attempt to assemble a pre-fabricated house over the course of a week with disastrous results.
View ArticleOctober 28th, 2014: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
Bing Crosby narrates and sings the story of Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster in Sleepy Hollow, New York, that runs afoul of The Headless Horseman, the ghost of a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a...
View ArticleDecember 23rd, 2014: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
A Charlie Brown Christmas was the first, and still the best, of all the specials based on Charles Schultz Peanuts comic strip. The special used children as voice actors, giving it a unique sound that...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: Part 2: September
September 19th: The Baroness and I watched Crooked House, my obligatory Agatha Christie story for this season (I wasn’t able to find the 1974 Ten Little Indians and somehow this ended up on my list...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week One
The Professor’s Fall Journal, October 1st: The season of the witch is upon us. Silver Shamrock time. Now that I have your attention with the horrors of that earworm, it’s time to begin recording my...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week 2
So one victim of my usual deadly combo of Fall being my busiest season professionally and personally was my apparent belief I should put this in weeks to break it up-and not thinking about the actual...
View ArticleProfessor’s Fall Journal: October Week 4
October 22nd: I borrowed the Cujo audio book from my local library’s Overdrive eBook collection. I’ve never seen the film (other than bits of pieces of it that I was either too scared to watch or too...
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