The Movies I Watched in October

Anne of the Indies 1951  8/10 

The Apprentice 2024  7/10

Bastarden 2023  7/10

 Beetlejuice 1988  7/10

 

The Brothers Rico 1957  6/10

Crime in the Streets 1956  6/10 

Crime of Passion 1956  6/10

A Cry in the Night 1956  6/10

Cry Vengeance 1954  6/10 

Enchanted 2007  7/10

Furiosa. A Mad Max Saga 2024  8/10 

The Garment Jungle 1957  6/10

Getting Gilliam 2005  6/10 

The Harder They Fall 1856  7/10

Hell's Half Acre 1954  6/10

Highway Dragnet 1954  6/10

Holy Spider 2022  7/10

 

House of Bamboo 1955  6/10

The Houston Story 1956  6/10

I Died a Thousand Times 1955  6/10

Illegal 1955  7/10

In a Violent Nature 2024  6/10

The Killer is Loose 1956  6/10 

A Kiss Before Dying 1956  6/10

The Long Wait 1954  6/10

Mare of Easttown 2021  8/10

Master Gardener 2022  7/10

 

The Night Holds Terror 1955  6/10 

The Night Runner 1957  6/10

The Phenix City Story 1955  6/10

Private Hell 36 1954  6/10

Riot in Cell Block 11 1954  6/10 

Slightly Scarlet 1956  6/10

Smile 2022  6/10

Supernova 2020  6/10

Tideland 2005  7/10 

Tiger Bay 1959  7/10

 

Trap 2024  6/10

Violent Saturday 1955  6/10

Vuelven 2017  7/10

 

New Stuff: In A Lonely Place

 

The Movies I Watched in July

Barbie 2023  8/10

 

Bird Box: Barcelona 2023  6/10 

Countdown 1967  6/10

Le crime de Monsieur Lange 1936  6/10 

Crossfire Hurricane 2012  7/10

 

Dead For a Dollar 6/10

Dead Reckoning 1946  7/10

Ghosts of the Abyss 2003  6/10

Goya - oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis 1971  7/10

Inside Man 2022 6/10

Little Murders 1971  7/10 

Lost Girls 2020  7/10

Pearl 2022 7/10

 Professor Marston and the Wonder Women 2017  7/10

 

The Search 1948  7/10

 

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons 2011  7/10

 

Wonder Woman 2017  7/10

The Movies I Watched in December

Among the Living 1941  6

The Big Night 1951  6 

Black Christmas 1974  6

Bringing Up Baby 1938  10

The Come On 1956  6

Dangerous Mission 1954  5

The Devil at 4 O'Clock 1961  6 

Don't Look Up 2021  7 

The Fallen Sparrow 1943  6

Games of Thrones, Season 1 2011  6

HealtH 1980  6

The Holiday 2006  6 

House by the River 1950  7

House of  Dracula 1945  5

In a Lonely Place 1950  8

It's a Wonderful Life 1946  10

 

Johnny Eager 1941  6

The Last Duel 2021  6

Light Sleeper 1992  7

 

Lvx Æterna 2019  6

Out of the Past 1947  10 

 

 

Pickup Alley 1957  6

 

Q 1982  6

 

Rise of the Black Bat 2012  2

 

Street of Chance 1942  6

 

The Unforgivable  2021  7

 

Vampyres 1974  6

 

Written on the Wind 1956 7

 

Vox Lux 2018  6

The Movies I Watched in October

American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)  7

 

 

Babylon Berlin 3 (2020)  6 

Beyond Skyline (2017)  5

Casablanca (1942)  10

 

 

The Chase (1946)  6 

Chloe (2009)  6

The Conspirator (2010)  6 

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)  8

 

 

Emily in Paris (2020)  6

End of Summer (2014)  8

 

 

Everything and Nothing (2011)  7

 

 

Une femme coquette (1955)  6 

Good Time (2017)  6  

Home to Danger (1951)  6

House of 1,000 Corpses (2003)  6

I See You (2019)  6 

Idiocracy (2006)  6

Johnny Come Lately (1943)  6 

The Key to Reserva (2007)  6

The Meg (2018)  6

The Mist (2007)  7

 

Mortal Engines (2018)  6

The Naked Street (1955)  6

Oculus (2013)  5

Of Mice and Men (1939)  7

 

 Patterns (1956)  7

 

  

Pontypool (2008)  6

Une rencontre (2014)  6 

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)  7

 

 

Street Scene (1931)  7

 

 

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)  8

 

  The White Diamond (2004)  7

 

You're Next (2011)  6

The Bad Sister (1931)

Marianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda.

Contrived and wooden melodrama with a remarkable cast, and no, Bette Davis doesn't play the title role.

Halliwell (no star): "A teenager potboiler of its day, remarkable only for its cast."

Maltin**: "...stilted early-talkie melodrama. Davis, in her film debut, is wasted..."

Sabrina (1954)

A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.

Billy Wilder delivers with his usual expertise, humor and pacing in this entertaining comedy romance, and Audrey Hepburn is perfect in the title role, but the casting of the two much older male leads makes it all seem quite implausible.

Halliwell*: "Superior comedy, rather uneasily cast."

Maltin***1/2: "...good vehicle for Hepburn...Offbeat casting works in this fun film."