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)
🕶️🕶️10.1 | 🌚11 🌝10
May 14: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
😎😎12.0 | 🌚12 🌝12
May 20: Raising Arizona (1987)
😎😎11.0 | 🌚11 🌝11
Jun 7: Roxanne (1987)
😎8.6 | 🌚8 🌝10
Jun 11: The Princess Bride (1987)
😎😎11.8 | 🌚11 🌝12
Jun 14: Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
🕶️9.0 | 🌚9 🌝9
Jun 18: Big (1988)
Jun 20: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Jun 23: Moon Over Parador (1988)
Jun 25: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Jun 27: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Jun 30: Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (1991)
Jul 2: Groundhog Day (1993)
Jul 4: Toy Story (1995)
Jul 7: Fargo (1996)
Jul 9: Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Jul 11: The Castle (1999)
Jul 16: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Jul 18: 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 2025-06-06