Archive for the ‘MOTM’ Category

  • MOTM/LAMBcast #153: Last Year at Marienbad

    by Dylan · Feb 13, 2013 at 6:10 CST · Blogathons, Featured, Features, LAMBcast, MOTM, Podcasts · No Comments
    MOTM/LAMBcast #153: <i>Last Year at Marienbad</i>

    I could easily lead off with some joke about how abstract Last Year at Marienbad is or how much I want to play Nim or what those people standing there like mannequins might have been thinking the whole time this film was made, but frankly, I think we did enough of that on the podcast (see below).  Suffice to say, Marienbad is a strange, interesting, boring, mysterious, exciting, beautiful, bizarre film…often times all...

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  • The MOTM for February 2013 will be…

    by Dylan · Jan 22, 2013 at 14:26 CST · Blogathons, Featured, Features, MOTM · 10 Comments
    The MOTM for February 2013 will be…


    It started off as a tight race between all five films, but it didn’t take long for two to break from the pack.  In the end, the pick from Brian Roan of Dear Film, 1961’s Last Year at Marienbad,  took home the prize (see poll results below). As such, Brian becomes the latest Champion and has won a chair in the LAMBcast in which we’ll discuss the film, and the hosting rights to the MOTM segment (more...

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  • MOTM/LAMBcast #149: Night of the Comet

    by Dylan · Jan 14, 2013 at 6:29 CST · Featured, Features, LAMBcast, MOTM, Podcasts · 2 Comments
    MOTM/LAMBcast #149: Night of the Comet

    The Princess BrideWatchmenDawn of the Dead?  Big films, you might say?  Night of the Comet can’t hear you.  Kristen chose this barely-seen apocalyptic zombie sci-fi-comedy and it tore up the competition.  The question is, is it underseen/underloved or justly forgotten?

    Before we get to the links, here’s the IMDb summary for the film, for those that aren’t familiar with...

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  • The next MOTM will be…

    by Dylan · Dec 24, 2012 at 22:04 CST · Blogathons, Features, MOTM, Periodic Features · 5 Comments
    The next MOTM will be…


    Are you ready for a surprise?

    There’s currently some talk going on over at the LAMB Forums (and previously on Twitter) in regards to what works or doesn’t work (or what should work or shouldn’t work) as it pertains to the voting for the Movie of the Month.  As it just so happens, one of the key points being made is about the existing popularity of films, how films like The Princess Bride or...

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  • MOTM/LAMBcast #145: Children of Men

    by Dylan · Dec 17, 2012 at 4:18 CST · Blogathons, Featured, LAMBcast, MOTM, Podcasts · 3 Comments
    MOTM/LAMBcast #145: Children of Men

    They say the sixth time’s the charm, right?  Proof that perseverance pays off, Ryan Fernand of Lord of the Films submitted Children of Men to the MOTM poll once again for December and it finally paid off.  Then, after all that time, it wasn’t even close, as his choice had more than twice as many votes as the next closest film.  The 2006 sci-fi drama starring Clive Owen was pretty much universally loved by critics and movie...

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  • The next MOTM will be…

    by Dylan · Nov 20, 2012 at 3:34 CST · Features, MOTM, Periodic Features · 6 Comments
    The next MOTM will be…
    I'm here to tell you that persistence does indeed pay off......

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  • The next MOTM will be…

    by Dylan · Oct 23, 2012 at 19:04 CDT · MOTM · No Comments
    The next MOTM will be…


    It was another patented two-horse race for the MOTM.  It seems all of these end up that way, as a handful of films will open up an early lead, but as time goes on, people change votes and/or only vote for one of the top dogs, knowing that votes for the others won’t go anywhere (hey, that sounds like the American political system!).  Anyway, it was a close race between The Princess Bride and Licence to Kill,...

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  • MOTM/LAMBcast #136: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    by Dylan · Oct 14, 2012 at 14:27 CDT · LAMBcast, MOTM · 3 Comments
    MOTM/LAMBcast #136: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    [Note: I asked the MOTM Champion Justin if he’d be interested in writing the intro for this post.  Here’s what he delivered.] 

    Every month at the LAMB, we have a poll that establishes our Movie of the Month. The winner is watched and discussed on the LAMBcast by a few of our members. Sometimes the winner that we review together is serious (last month’s silent German film Metropolis),...

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  • The next MOTM will be…

    by Dylan · Sep 26, 2012 at 13:50 CDT · MOTM · No Comments
    The next MOTM will be…


    We had ourselves another two-horse race in the last MOTM poll, and it came down to two four-word-titled, underrated (?) modern films – White Men Can’t Jump and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.  In the end, the Robert Downey, Jr./Val Kilmer vehicle won out (championed by Justin Gott of Man, I Love Films), taking 26.3% of the 95 votes.  As such, Justin has won a chair in the LAMBcast in which we’ll discuss the film,...

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  • MOTM/LAMBcast #132: Metropolis

    by Dylan · Sep 17, 2012 at 18:30 CDT · LAMBcast, MOTM · No Comments
    MOTM/LAMBcast #132: Metropolis

    Can I just say that I love the eclectic group of films that have been chosen as the Movies of the Month by all the voters out there since we rejuvenated the MOTM feature in March of last year?  We’ve had critically-acclaimed films like Inglourious Basterds and The Shining, we’ve had cult films like The Evil Dead and Bronson, we’ve had foreign films (Oldboy, The Third Man), a...

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  • The next MOTM will be…

    by Dylan · Aug 27, 2012 at 12:02 CDT · LAMBcast, MOTM, MOTM Champions · No Comments
    The next MOTM will be…


    It’s safe to say that the latest MOTM poll turned into a blowout.  Deny Everything’s choice of Show Me Love took a commanding early lead, and Flights, Tights and Movie Nights’ Robocop selection made a deent run, but Metropolis, championed by 100 Years of Movies ran away with the vote, taking 29% of the 165 votes (nice turnout!).  As such, Pat of 100 Years has won a chair in the LAMBcast in which...

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  • MOTM/LAMBcast #128: Battle Royale

    by Dylan · Aug 19, 2012 at 22:50 CDT · LAMBcast, MOTM · 3 Comments
    MOTM/LAMBcast #128: Battle Royale

    Is it just me, or is it strange how the discussions of certain book-to-film adaptations seem to center on the quality of adaptation rather than the quality of film; that the act of the adaptation is so inseparable from the film that it’s impossible to ignore?  Think about The Hunger Games recently, or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; although certainly not all film bloggers read these books prior to seeing the films, it does...

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