Welcoming the Madness

Good evening new readers! Rachael here, and I just wanted to make a shout out to Brent for making our lovely new blog and to all of you who are taking the time out to read!

Just a tid-bit on me but I'm trying to complete watching 365 new films in the year 2013. I won't bore you with every single film I see but I will intermittently post my thoughts. They won't be too long because I find myself dozing if the review becomes too long.

So here goes nothing....

What an interesting way to start off then to talk about this 1936 film gem called Reefer Madness by director Louis J. Gasnier.

Now, I'm still trying to wrap my head around whether it is a serious film or a comedy but let me tell you, I took it as comedy. I laughed so hard watching how this film panned out. It's a story on how marijuana can effect the life of someone after taking that first puff. The outcomes just so happens to include insanity, murder, and depression.

Reefer Madness seems like it wanted to scare kids of the 30's out of doing the drug whilst putting the parents on strict watch of their children. The acting and wardrobe is your typical 30's look. Men in suits and ties, while the women are in calf length dresses with finger waved hair styles.

I loved this. I really did. Give it a shot. I know to this day it has been turned into a musical and I remember over the summer my theatre here was playing but I just laughed it off. I wish I didn't.

Rating: 3/5 stars

Hello and how are you? May I take your hat, sir?

Welcome to Damn Good Milkshake! This is our new blog about things that we, the writers, find entertaining, specifically film and television. We're not professionals by any means; we just have feelings and opinions about works of art that we would like to express and will be doing so here. So if you care to read the honest opinion of some casual observers, I say again: welcome!

We won't really be adhering to a strict format here, jumping around from reviews to predictions to general thoughts and musings about shows or movies. It's also possible that we won't necessarily be writing about brand new releases. Classic films are ones that stand the test of time and maybe we'll have something to say about those too.

We hope you enjoy reading what we have to say and contributing to discussion in the comments. We urge you to let us know when you think we're wrong and/or let us know how bad we are at writing.  

Just as a preview (and maybe a teaser if you find any of these topics interesting), here are some things I'm currently working on and should appear here on the blog in the near future: reviews of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and hit Showtime drama Homeland and a preview of the highly-anticipated third season of HBO's Game of Thrones.

My co-admin Rachael is trying to complete the 365 film challenge for the year 2013 (3 days in and she's already got 6!), spanning various genres and styles of film from pre code to modern day cinema. She'll be posting about many, but not all, of her viewings here.

And here. We. Go.