Top Shelf – AFI 100

We review film #48: “Rear Window”…the 1954 film that spawned a generation of peeping tom movie references and teaches you to mind your damn business…even if your neighbor is a potential killer.

We review film #49: “Intolerance – Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages”…the 1916 silent film that tells the meaning behind the Hollywood Highland Complex design.  Oh and it’s also this massively epic flop of a film about people in different color coding…

We review film #50: “Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring”…the 2001 film where everyone does stuff and then passes off the responsibility to everyone else.  Oh and there’s walking.  And smoking.  And jump scares.  And a Sean Bean death…

We review film #51: “West Side Story”…the 1961 film about a young girl who falls in love with a young boy from an apposing clan, and even though they’ve only known each other for a few short days is willing to forgive…

We review film #52: “Taxi Driver”…the 1976 film that shows what happens when you drive taxi’s for a living in a post-Vietnam world…YOU GO CRAZY…and then are perfectly okay again.

We review film #53: “The Deer Hunter”…the 1978 film that shows exactly what a weekend in Wisconsin is like during the first hour, reiterates that VIETNAM WAS A BAD IDEA in the second hour, and finally showing why VIETNAM WAS A…

We review film #54: “M.A.S.H.”…the 1970 film that showed that the medical section of the Korean War was college only without the parties…

As a special bonus episode of TOP SHELF and in memoriam of Harold Ramis (aka Egon) passing, we watched the classic 1984 movie “Ghostbusters“.  The movie that made a generation of boys and girls want to grow up and fight…

We review film #55: “North By Northwest”…the 1959 suspense film that told the world Mount Rushmore could easily be the setting of an action sequence.