It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World pulls me back into a time I'm a little too young to remember -- it was released two years before I was born -- but also to a time in my life when the world and all the wonders in it were opening up to me. It brings me back the mid 1970s when I was around 10 years old. The movie was played on CTV in Canada every New Year's Eve, and for a few years before I was old enough to start seeking out parties, I'd be babysitting for friends of my parents, deep drifts of snow outside, the deserts of southern California there on the screen.

It's refreshing to me, too, in an era when every wonder that is imaginable can be created with CGI and put up there on the screen, to see spectacle created that involved real danger, real cars, real planes flying through real billboards just to capture a few thrilling seconds of action.

And honestly, I still find it hilarious -- the sheer madcap, intense, scenery-chewing acting going on never ceases, after all these years, to make me smile.

If you haven't seen the movie, and this site inspires you to watch it, my work here is done. I hope you love it as much as I do.