My Week in Movies : November 17 -23

I didn't watch a lot this week, movie-wise.

Movies in italics are ones I've watched before.

Return to Oz (1985)
Easter Parade (1948)
Ironfinger (1965)
Fun & Fancy Free (1947)
I, Frankenstein (2014) w/sol_se 

I could have sworn that I had seen Return to Oz previously, but I had no memory of the movie past a certain point, so I think the Mombi sequences may have scared me off as a youth. I don't blame smaller me for that at all. As I said on Twitter, Walter Murch has a lot to answer for. What an absolutely delightful nightmare of a film. I cried at the end, too.

I may have watched Easter Parade almost entirely for Jules Munshin's small role as a waiter.

Ironfinger is a weird Japanese spy-crime-comedy thing. I suspect that it works a lot better if you speak Japanese. I was mostly interested in it because it's directed by occasional Godzilla helmer Jun Fukuda and stars the two male leads of the original Gojira. This ended up having no impact on the film itself.

Fun & Fancy Free is mostly notable for the use of Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd) as a narrator in the Mickey and the Beanstalk tale. I also wanted to see the Disney trio of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy in action. It's a pleasant enough film, but largely forgettable.

For date night, sol_se and I watched I, Frankenstein, which is a regrettable film. It is completely devoid of humor, joy, romance, or interesting characters. What a slog.

I also watched The Mandalorian, a handful of Addams Family episodes, and finished Gravity Falls Season 2.