favorite movie #94 - election edition: shampoo

Favorite movies that have had an impact on me - #94 - Shampoo (1975) - Although not primarily about an election, the 1968 election of Richard Nixon as president starts the film, and the characters change partners to the backdrop of politics: Hairdresser George (Warren Beatty) escorts Jackie (Julie Christie) and Jill (Goldie Hawn)to a Republican election night party. The film is set at the beginning of Nixon's presidency, but the audience knows that Watergate and the disillusionment that scandal had on the office of president is in its characters' future. Shampoo is not just a great film, but a glimpse into the American public and personal politics of the Seventies.

favorite movie #93 - election edition: napoleon dynamite

Favorite movies that have had an impact on me - #93 - Napoleon Dynamite (2004) - The pace of this movie is as socially awkward and original as its title character, Napoleon Dynamite, played by Jon Heder. But once you get into it, you can't help but root for the strange Napoleon and his buddy Pedro, Deb, Grandma, and even Napoleon's annoying brother Kip.

favorite movie #92 - election edition: election

Favorite movies that have had an impact on me - #92 - Election (1999) - Reese Witherspoon is amazing as Tracy Flick, the indefatigable, unscrupulous, ever-achieving senior who is running for student body president. Matthew Broderick is her teacher Jim McAllister, who loathes her. This dark comedy never tries to make any of its characters likable and is all the better for it.

recap: all of my favorite halloween movie picks

Don't forget to say your "white rabbits x3" for good luck this month, and honor your saints today if that is your thing. Here is the list of all my favorite Halloween flicks this year, last month. Just because Halloween is over, that doesn't mean you can't watch a scary movie. They're always in season.

Castle of Blood, The Return of Dracula, Poltergeist, Trilogy of Terror, Rosemary’s Baby, The Innocents, The Stepford Wives, Eye of the Devil, What We Do in the Shadows, The Legacy, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 73-70’s T.V. Movies, Mad Monster Party?, The Omen, Village of the Damned, The Bone Collector, Beetlejuice, City of the Dead/Horror Hotel, Little Shop of Horrors, Horrors of the Black Museum, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Birds, Bunny Lake is Missing, Spirits of the Dead, The Company of Wolves, The Shining, Wolf, Suspiria, Eyes Without A Face, Only Lovers Left Alive.