The Movies I Watched in January

The Alto Knights 2025  6/10 

Atoll K 1951  5/10 

Bring Her Back 2025  7/10

 

Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas 2018  7/10

 

Caught Stealing 2025  7/10

 

Cheers. Season 10 1992  7/10

 

Emma. 2020  7/10

 

Eve's Love Letters 1927  5/10 

Fluttering Hearts 1927  5/10 

His & Hers 2026  5/10 

Las Hurdes 1933  8/10

 

Incubo sulla città contaminata 1980  5/10 

Kidnapped: Eilzabeth Smart 2026  5/10 

Die Kinder der Villa Emma 2016  5/10 

Liberty 1929  6/10 

The Life of Chuck 2024 7/10

 

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane 1976  7/10

 

The Long Walk 2025  6/10 

Meek's Cutoff 2010  7/10

 

Oliver the Eighth 1934  6/10 

On the Wrong Trek 1936  5/10 

One Battle After Another 2025 7/10

 

Pardon Us 1931  5/10 

I pianeti contro di noi 1962  2/10 

The Queen's Gambit 2020  8/10

 

Rachel Getting Married 2008  7/10

 

Ren pi deng long 1982  6/10 

The Second 100 Years 1927 5/10 

Seinfeld. Season 1 1989  7/10

 

Stars at Noon 2022  5/10

Stranger Things. Season 5  2025  7/10

 

Talk to Me 2022  6/10 

That's My Wife 1929  5/10 

Thicker Than Water 1935  6/10 

The Tiger's Tail 2006  7/10

 

 

Warfare 2025  7/10

 

With Love and Hisses 1927  5/10 

The Woman King 2022  6/10 

Z 1969  7/10

 

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Anne Hathaway

 

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The Intern (2015)

A seventy-year-old widower has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be; seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site.

Likable comedy with a great premise is quite amusing and Robert De Niro delivers one of his best performances in recent years (although his character is almost too good to be true); However, as so often in this genre, the movie does drift into sentimentality towards the end.

Anne Hathaway

Colossal (2016)

Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home, but when reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.

Strange, slightly amusing mix of a domestic alcohol abuse story and a monster movie nicely moves along its absurd premise, but isn't really very exciting.

One Day (2011)

After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation a woman and a man are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives; they are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.

A relationship drama propelled by Sturgess' mysterious reluctance to love Hathaway is well-played, but unnerves for exact that reason; the ending is quite a punch in the stomach.

Maltin**: "Dreary, drawn-out look at a star-crossed relationship..David Nicholls adapted his best-selling book but something's been lost in the translation; we never understand what makes Sturgess' character tick, so it's hard to care about him."

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway

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Interstellar (2014)

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

Credits go to the audacity of creating this space opera on such a grand scale and to the production design, but the ambitions overburden the plot, and the science accuracy (and its philosophical implications) are pitiable; the movie also showcases the most ridiculous robot design in sci-fi history.

Passengers (2008)

A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.

Atmospheric mystery, slow-paced and well staged, but the twist ending is quite disappointing.

Maltin**: "Scareless, suspenseless, only mildly intriguing romantic thriller is a middling muddle of conspirancy paranoia, otherworldliness, and kissing. Not recommended for those with fear of flying."

The Movies I Watched in July

Blind Man 2012  6
Cowboys & Aliens 2011  6
Der Tiger von Eschnapur 1959  7

Downfall 2004  6
Hitchcock 2012  7

In & Out 1997  5
Planet Ocean 2012 Documentary 7

Sightseers 2012  6
The Dark Knight Rises 2012  7

The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941  7

The Informers 2008  6
The Invasion 2007  6
The Man in the White Suit 1951  7

The Milky Way 1969  7

The Proposition 2005  6
The Sixth Sense 1999  8

The Tomb of Love 1959  7

The Ward 2010  5
Traffic Jam 1979  7

Up Close & Personal 1996  5

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, the Dark Knight must return to defend Gotham City against the enigmatic jewel thief Catwoman and the ruthless mercenary Bane as the city teeters on the brink of complete annihilation.

Highly accomplished attempt (on all levels) to top off the previous The Dark Knight on an almost epic scale - it nearly succeeds.

Maltin***: "With more humor and grace notes but just as many story detours as the previous film, this one offers juicy moments to Caine, Hathaway, and a new straight-arrow cop character well played by Gordon-Levitt. Still a bit self-serious but roundly entertaining, with a highly satisfying finale."