Tonight’s Contenders: Heist Holdup
“It’s a perfect plan. So inspired. So devious. Yet so simple.” The plan, the execution, and the aftermath. These are the three components that make up any great heist movie. The optional fourth component to […]
Uncle Touchy’s Choice: Blue Lagoon
As it was our new Victoria/Vancouver Island chapter’s second week as a member of the Monday Movie Night empire, our Island Invasion theme was filled with great options. There were Academy Award winners, block buster […]
Tonight’s Contenders: Island Invasion
Sole survival, solitude, confinement, freedom, deception, hidden lust, treasure (of all forms), and epic sing-alongs are all themes found amongst tonight’s contenders. As Monday Movie Nights officially ushers in their new Victoria chapter we find […]
On the Waterfront – A Pseudo-mob Must See
– Guest review by Angie Amlani If you’re like me—that is, someone who likes gangster films, but who has by no means watched all of the seminal period-pieces—then I would highly suggest checking out the classic […]
Tonight’s Contenders: Best Picture Punch-Up
Once again it’s the time of year when we turn to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to tell us who paid the most money for a small gold-plated statue. This tradition of […]
A Fistful of Dollars – Keep The Change, The Existentialism Is On Me
Westerns tend to fall into one of two categories; there are the cowboys vs indians/white hat good guys shooting black hat bad guys, and there are the dark, gritty, revisionist Westerns where no one is […]
Tonight’s Contenders: Western Shootout
Tonight we celebrate a genre that has been largely forgotten in the modern movie era, the Western. Set in a time when the Old West was still wild, the Western is a nostalgic look back […]
The Bodyguard: Guard Your Heart
For our “Monday Movie Nights: Romance Rumble” we decided on The Bodyguard. The movie is about Rachel Marron (played by Whitney Houston), a pop music superstar whose manager enlists the services of semi-retired bodyguard Frank […]
Tonight’s Contenders: A Romance Rumble
Romance films are simple. They’re all about an epic romantic struggle between two (or more) lovers. For some, it’s love at first sight. Others dabble in unrequited love, obsessive love, or forbidden love. Sometimes it […]
Tonight’s Contenders: Groundhog Day Edition
This year Monday Movie Nights is fortunate enough to land on the day that decides our meteorological fate for the next six weeks. Yes, I’m talking about Groundhog Day. To celebrate this momentous date we […]