HobbyScope

Category: Saturday Morning Cinema

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – The Last Picture Show

    Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – The Last Picture Show

    It’s like American Pie but made in the Seventies…and set in the Fifties…and a fairly depressing drama rather than comedy. It’s that movie early-teen boys would rent and watch over and over because it made their hormones spike.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – Do The Right Thing

    Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – Do The Right Thing

    Do The Right Thing is intense. Characters swirl in and out juggling multiple story lines and perspectives while sitting smack in the middle of a racially mixed and charged neighborhood during a scorching summer day. Released in 1989, Do The Right Thing’s subject matter is as relevant now as ever, especially in regards to the…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – Blade Runner

    Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – Blade Runner

    Is Blade Runner actually a good movie? That is a question I ask myself whenever I watch it or even just hear Blade Runner mentioned. Now that I have watched it again, is there a clear answer? No. The fact there is not an answer makes me think Blade Runner is not, in fact, amazing, but that does not…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – Yankee Doodle Dandy

    Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – Yankee Doodle Dandy

    I have a difficult time getting psyched to watch old black and white movies. There’s just no draw for my sensory-overload addled brain. I have a 4K HDR TV with a Dolby Atmos setup (because I’m a tech junky and admit I have a problem though I couldn’t tell you the technology makes a huge…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – Toy Story

    An all-time favorite with Toy Story comes in at number 99 on AFI’s All-Time Top 100 list. I love the movie because of the story, the voice actors (give me Tom Hanks all day every day), and the creativity infused throughout this animated masterpiece. It’s like an animated Honey, I Shrunk the Kids where the toys see…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – Ben-Hur

    The base of the mountain, number 100 on AFI’s Top 100 list, is 1959’s Ben-Hur. Prior to this viewing experience, I was not aware it held the record for most Oscars until Titanic came along, nor was I aware it was a remake of a 1925 silent film, nor did I realize the movie is…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: AFI Top 100 Edition – Setting the Stage

    If film’s Mount Rushmore had room for 100, it could consist of the AFI Top 100 Greatest American Films of All Time. At least, I assume it could, right? The American Film Institute is the expert, so I’m sure they would know. I haven’t seen all the movies on the list and can’t pass proper…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Baseball Movies #4 – Field of Dreams

    I’ve got to do it. “If you build it, he will come.” The voice and line that transformed an Iowa farm and added another baseball-related movie to Kevin Costner’s filmography. Field of Dreams has never been high on my list of favorites due to a memory from some point in my life of it being a tad…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Baseball Movies #3

    Oh look, it’s Saturday Morning Cinema on a Sunday night, because my Saturday was filled with zero initiative and activity. It was beautiful. Despite my exercising exactly why Saturday’s exist (aka rest and relaxation), there are more baseball movies to watch, and the next recipient of the SMC treatment is The Natural. Imagine you have a,…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Baseball Movies #2

    Saturday Morning Cinema on a Sunday evening, it’s happening because I can’t believe how fast the weekdays tick by, and a post that was supposed to be written on a Wednesday finds itself landing on Monday Eve. That’s all inconsequential, however, for the content of this post. We’re here because the summer continues to burn…