31 Movies for October

I do not do scary movies, so my list has a lot of family friendly options.  Be warned, there’s a lot of Joss Whedon and Tim Burton.

 

1. Northanger Abbey 
2. Fun Size (don’t judge me!)
3. Hocus Pocus
4. Nightmare Before Christmas (also on my list for Christmas movies)
5. The Bride
6. Haunted Mansion
7. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
8. Corpse Bride
9. Evil Dead
10. Cabin in the Woods
11. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
12. Casper
13. Coraline
14. Beetlejuice
15. Young Frankenstein
16. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog
17. Little Shop of Horrors
18. Shaun of the Dead
19. Zombieland
20. Ghostbusters
21. The Prestige
22. Ghost
23. My Boyfriend’s Back
24. The Worst Witch
25. Stardust
26. The Adventures of Ichabod (& Mr. Toad)
27. The House of Yes
28. Army of Darkness
29. The Witches
30. Interview with a Vampire
31. Addams Family Values

    *Note: All films that are in italics I have watched so far this month

Wings

I recently decided that I was going to start watching all of the Oscar winning movies.  I’m not sure how long this will take me, but I’m hoping to at least get through the first ten years by the time the Oscars start this March.  We’ll see how that goes.

1929, the first annual Academy Awards Outstanding Picture was won by Wings.  This silent action film includes those old-timey captions and a continuous score as it follows Jack Powell (Charles “Buddy” Rogers), his rival turned best friend, David Armstrong (Richard Arlen), the woman they both love, Sylvia Lewis (Jobyna Ralston), and the cute, spunky, girl next door, Mary Preston (Clara Bow), who is hopelessly in love with Jack, and will do just about anything for him, like put her career on the line, and get fired, even when he’s being a drunken, bubble loving, a-hole.

Everything is over the top- the melodramatic looks, the slapstick, the nationalism, the rage, the fights, the horror, the romance!  I’m looking forward to watching more silent films and the next few Oscar winners to come!