51 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 80 Days: The Itinerary

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #3: 51 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 80 Days. The review release schedule is finally here.

Here’s the schedule of dates on which you will be blessed with reviews of films I’m watching in this overview project!

I was planning to give you the first one this Saturday, but I’m going to roll it back to February 10. That way I can accomplish some more infrastructure things and make sure I can bring you the same consistency and rhythm of reviews to Substack as I did to the text group. It also neatly ends the 80 day challenge on the last day of April.

Between the early dates, you can follow along in Substack as I add in all the old reviews from this text group.

I expect to be posting on Substack only and retiring the text group by March 19. Maybe sooner if you want me to post new reviews there before the old ones are all posted.

(March 11, 2025: Please note that the schedule below has been revised and updated. The new schedule can be found here.)

Feb 10: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Feb 13: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Feb 16: The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Feb 19: The Pink Panther (1963)
Feb 22: The Sound of Music (1965)
Feb 25: The Great Race (1965)
Feb 28: The Love Bug (1968)
Mar 3: The Sting (1973)
Mar 6: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Mar 9: The Muppet Movie (1979)
Mar 12: Being There (1979)
Mar 15: Airplane! (1980)
Mar 17: Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980)
Mar 19: The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Mar 20: Arthur (1981)
Mar 21: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Mar 22: Tootsie (1982)
Mar 23: The Man With Two Brains (1983)
Mar 25: Romancing the Stone (1984)
Mar 26: The Natural (1984)
Mar 27: Electric Dreams (1984)
Mar 28: Re-Animator (1985)
Mar 29: Stand by Me (1986)
Mar 30: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Apr 1: Raising Arizona (1987)
Apr 2: Roxanne (1987)
Apr 3: The Princess Bride (1987)
Apr 4: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Apr 5: Big (1988)
Apr 6: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Apr 8: Moon Over Parador (1988)
Apr 9: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Apr 10: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Apr 11: Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (1991)
Apr 12: Groundhog Day (1993)
Apr 13: Toy Story (1995)
Apr 15: Fargo (1996)
Apr 16: Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Apr 17: The Castle (1999)
Apr 18: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Apr 19: Shrek (2001)
Apr 20: Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Apr 22: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Apr 23: Chicago (2002)
Apr 24: Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Apr 25: A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Apr 26: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Apr 27: Stardust (2007)
Apr 28: Epic (2013)
Apr 29: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Apr 30: A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)

Don’t forget the popcorn!

Originally posted to text group 2025-01-29
Last updated 2025-03-11

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