Unlock 51 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 200 Days: The Itinerary
Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #3: 51 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 200 Days—Happening Now!
Here’s the new schedule of dates on which you will be blessed with reviews of films I’m watching in this overview project!
Several reviews have already been posted, on the dates below. Links to those reviews are already included here, and the remaining links will be added when the new reviews are posted.
Update, 2025-04-14
Just for fun, so you can compare, I’m now adding the Dark Whimsy readings to the end of each listing, for the movies with completed reviews. The explanations and methodology can be found here.
Feb 10: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
😎😎10.4 | 🌚10 🌝11
Feb 13: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
😎😎10.1 | 🌚11 🌝10
Feb 16: The Mouse That Roared (1959)
😎9.0 | 🌚9 🌝9
Feb 19: The Pink Panther (1963)
😎7.2 | 🌚9 🌝7
Feb 23: The Sound of Music (1965)
😎8.1 | 🌚9 🌝8
Feb 25: The Great Race (1965)
😎😎10.0 | 🌚10 🌝10
Feb 28: The Love Bug (1968)
😎😎10.4 | 🌚10 🌝11
Mar 3: The Sting (1973)
😎8.4 | 🌚11 🌝8
Mar 7: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
😎😎11.0 | 🌚11 🌝11
Mar 13: The Muppet Movie (1979)
😎😎10.8 | 🌚10 🌝13
Mar 17: Being There (1979)
😎8.1 | 🌚9 🌝8
Mar 22: Airplane! (1980)
🕶️🕶️10.0 | 🌚10 🌝10
Mar 25: Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980)
😎😎10.4 | 🌚10 🌝11
Mar 29: The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
😎😎10.4 | 🌚10 🌝11
Apr 2: Arthur (1981)
😎9.7 | 🌚9 🌝11
Apr 6: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
😎😎10.0 | 🌚10 🌝10
Apr 10: Tootsie (1982)
😎7.6 | 🌚7 🌝9
Apr 14: The Man With Two Brains (1983)
🕶️8.4 | 🌚11 🌝8
Apr 17: Romancing the Stone (1984)
🕶️8.2 | 🌚10 🌝8
Apr 23: The Natural (1984)
😎9.1 | 🌚10 🌝9
Apr 26: Electric Dreams (1984)
😎😎10.4 | 🌚10 🌝11
Apr 30: Re-Animator (1985)
🕶️7.7 | 🌚13 🌝7
May 4: Stand by Me (1986)
May 9: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
May 13: Raising Arizona (1987)
May 17: Roxanne (1987)
May 21: The Princess Bride (1987)
May 25: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
May 29: Big (1988)
Jun 2: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Jun 6: Moon Over Parador (1988)
Jun 10: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Jun 14: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Jun 18: Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (1991)
Jun 22: Groundhog Day (1993)
Jun 26: Toy Story (1995)
Jun 30: Fargo (1996)
Jul 5: Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Jul 9: The Castle (1999)
Jul 13: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Jul 17: Shrek (2001)
Jul 21: Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Jul 25: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Jul 30: Chicago (2002)
Aug 3: Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Aug 7: A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Aug 11: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Aug 15: Stardust (2007)
Aug 19: Epic (2013)
Aug 24: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Aug 28: A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)
Don’t forget the popcorn!
Last updated 2025-04-16