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

 

Doctor Sleep (2019)

 

Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal. 

Homage and expansion of the story told in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is very well-made staged and entertaining, but - in contrast to the original - it goes more with Stephen King's concept and is a no-holds-barred supernatural outing. 

 

New Stuff: Doctor Sleep

 

The Movies I Watched in March

The Bat 1959  6

Behind Her Eyes 2021  6 

Blutiger Freitag 1972  5

Booksmart 2019  6

Captain Phillips 2013  7

 

Cezanne et Moi 2016  6

Clara 2018  7

Crimson Peak 2015  6

The Dead Don't Die 2019  7

Doctor Sleep 2019  7

 

Don't Drink the Water 1994  6

Epos Dei - Die geheimnisvolle Ordnung hinter den Dingen  5

Ercole l'invincibile 1964  4

Françoise Hardy, la discrète (2016)  6

Galaxina 1980  3

Greetings 1968  6 

Hi, Mom! 1970  6

Hour of the Gun 1967  7

I Am Legend 2007  6 

I Knew It Was You: Remembering John Cazale 2009  6

Immortals 2011  6 

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound 2009  6

Joe Kidd 1972  6

Junkopia 1981  7

Y

The King of Comedy 1982  7

Il mio viaggio in Italia 1999  8

Mr. Stitch 1995  6

Murder Among The Mormons 2021  6 

The Naked Edge 1961  6

The Nightingale 2018  7

La peau blanche 2006   6 

Roma 1972  7

Screamers 1995  6

The Secret Life of Pets 2 2019  7 

Son of a Lion 2007  7

Supergirl 1984  6

Teströl és lélekrö 2017  8

 

The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020  7 

Trouble Every Day 2001  6

Ulzana's Raid 1972  7 

Umimachi Diary 2015  7

 

The Wedding Party 1969  6

White Pongo 1945  4

The White Tiger 2021  7

The Woman 2011  6 

Wonder Woman 1984  6

Yao a yao, yao dao wai po qiao 1995  7 

Ye yan 2006  6

Yesterday 2019  7 

The Dead Zone (1983)

 

A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability. 

David Cronenberg tones down his trademark gore excellent Stephen King adaptation in favor of a more subdued and atmospheric interpretation of the story - enhanced by Walken's sensitive performance.

Halliwell*: "Glum thriller with a fairly predictable outcome but some well-staged episodes."

Maltin***: "Absorbing Stephen King story...Walken's moving, heartfelt performance is the core of evolving, if sometimes meandering movie where (despite reputations of King and Cronenberg) the emphasis is not on blood-and-guts horror."  

 

The Mist (2007)

 

A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. 

A monster movie executed as a psychological drama with a simple message ("We've seen the enemy, and he is us"), but with an extraordinary and downbeat ending.

On rewatching: A great monster movie for our times; the social analysis is even more virulent nowadays. 

Maltin***: "Suspenseful and graced with very good effects, this is a monster movie in the classic mode. It also has some social commentary...Controversial ending is changed from the story." 

 

The Movies I Watched in November

The Accountant of Auschwitz 2018  7 

 

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane 2006  5 

The Big Lebowski 1998  8

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2020  5

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving  1973  7 

 

The Dead Zone 1983  8 

 

Double Cross 1941  5

The Duel 2016  6

The Four Feathers 1978  6

House of Seven Belles 1979  4

The Juniper Tree 1990  7

 

The Killer Shrews  1959  4

Man on the Moon 1999  6

The Mule 2018  6 

Music, Money, Madness... Jimi Hendrix In Maui (2020)  6

My Octopus Teacher 2020  8 

 

Opera 1987  7

Operation Petticoat 1959  6

The Queen's Gambit 2020 8 

 

Ride With the Devil 1999  6

Stridulum 1978  4

Unsolved Mysteries, Season 2 2020  7

 

Wadjda 2012 7 

 

Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja 1924  7

 

Z For Zachariah 2015  6