The Movies I Watched in December

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024  7/10

 

Black Widow 1954  6/10 

La boulangère de Monceau 1963  7/10

 La carrière de Suzanne 1963  7/10

Cast Away 2ßßß  6/10

La chute de la maison Usher 1928   

Cocksucker Blues 1972 6/10

The Dead Don't Hurt 2023  7/10

Drive a Crooked Road 1954  6/10 

Ecologia del delitto 1971  6/10

The Fall Guy 2024  7/10

 

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2016  6/10

The Flintstones 1994  6/10

Heathers 1988  7/10

Hit Man 2023  7/10

 L'hypothèse du tableau volé 1978  7/10

It's a Gift 1934  7/10

 Kisapmata 1981  7/10

The Landlord 1970  6/10

The Miniaturist 2017  6/10

Murder She Said 1961  6/10

Obsession 1949  6/10 

Oramunde 1933  7/10

Polyester 1981  7/10

 A Quiet Place. Day One 2024  7/10

Raised by Wolves, Season 1 2020  7/10

 

Raised by Wolves, Season 2 2022  6/10 

Såsom i en spegel 1961  7/10

Snow White and the Huntsman 2012  6/10

Strangers in Good Company 1990  7/10

Una sull'altra 1969  6/10

Szürkület 1990  8/10

 Taiyô wo nusunda otoko 1979  7/10

The Tragedy of Macbeth 2021  7/10

Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita Nyong'o

The Movies I Watched in April

A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)  5
The Accountant (2016)  6
An (2015)  7

D'après une histoire vraie (2017)  6
At Eternity's Gate (2018)  8 

 
Boyz in the Hood (1991)  7

Breaking the Waves (1996)  8

Brewster McCloud (1970)  6
Buried (2010)  7

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)  7

A Cure For Wellness  (2016)  6
Darkest Hour (2017)  7

Durante la tormenta (2018)  TV  6
Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1958)  7

Fright Night (2011)  6
The Highwaymen (2019)  7

Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce (2019)

Iron Sky (2012)  6
King Kong (2005)  7

LBJ (2016)  6
Lifepod (1993) TV  5
The Man From Texas (1948)  5
Mes ami, mes amour (2008)  6
A Most Wanted Man (2014)  6
Operation Finale (2018)  6
Runaway Daughters (1956)  5
Sorority Girl (1957)  6
22 July (2018)  7

Us (2019)  7

Violette (2013)  7

Wild Bill (1995)  5

Us (2019)

A family's serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them.

Straightforward horror thriller slyly taking the doppelgänger motif to its extreme with subtle, but clear political undertones; however, an explanatory passage about the goings-on somewhat spoils the mystery.

Black Panther (2018)

T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

Although it grandly delivers all the goods of a superhero comic adaptation, the makers even more successfuly create an uplifting African myth and contrast it it with the realities of our current world.

Lupita Nyong'o

Non-Stop (2014)

An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages demanding $150 million into an off-shore account, or someone will die every 20 minutes.

An old-hat premise is turned into an above-average thriller by keeping the tension high throughout and upping the ante of the plot's possibilties to the edge of credibility.

Maltin**: "Follows a familiar textbook for this kind of thriller but delivers the goods and keeps you guessing right to the outlandish finale."

Lupita Nyong'o

ph: Yu Tsai

Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita Nyong'o

12 Years a Slave (2013)

In the antebellum United States a free black man from upstate New York is abducted and sold into slavery.

Harrowing tale of slavery is excellently directed with a thoroughly superb cast.