Movies for the Day, Saturday, April 1, 2017

Today's movies acknowledge April 2017 as Cancer Control Month and Jazz and Blues Appreciation Month and the Final Four of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championships ("March Madness").



April 2017 is Cancer Control Month.  Ikiru (1952)
is a great Japanese film about a minor bureaucrat
who is dying of cancer and seeks the meaning of
life.






Ikiru





April is Jazz and Blues Appreciation
Month.  The Blues Brothers (1980) is an
iconic comedy featuring John Belushi
and Dan Ackroyd and their blues
music.




The Blues Brothers









Today is the Final Four of the Men's NCAA Men's
Basketball Championship.  Blue Chips (1994) is an
underrated movie about basketball at the college
level.




Blue Chips