The Movie Journal: June 2023

I watched 46 movies in the month of June. Thirty-eight of those were new to me. Twenty-five of them were made before I was born.

I didn’t have a theme this month though I did have quite a bit of review material to watch which dictated my viewings somewhat. I also went down a bit of a 1980s rabbit hole for a little while.

I’ve started a series where I plan to watch one movie from every year I was born in chronological order. I’ll talk more about that in a different post, but that will explain why, here at the end of the month, I started watching a bunch of movies from the late 1970s.

Favorite new watches of the month include The Duellists, Ace in the Hole, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (a rare film watched in the theater).

James Coburn has entered my list of Top Actors Watched this month, he’s tied with Courteney Cox and Roger Jackson with six films watched this year. Randolph Scott and Wilbur Mack also enter the list with five films. I got a Scott boxed set for Father’s Day and have watched several films from it. Wilbur Mack starred in all of the Mr. Wong movies and I watched them for a review.

William Nigh jumps up to the number two spot for the Top Directors Watched list, he directed the Mr. Wong movies.

Here’s the complete list

Taste of Fear (1961)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Mad Max (1979)
The Driver (1978)
The Duellists (1977)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Waterworld (1995)
Christine (1983)
The Old Dark House (1963)
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Footloose (1984)
Bloody Hell (2020)
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
Queen Christina (1933)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Cocaine Bear (2023)
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
Hangman’s Knot (1952)
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Doomed to Die (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
The Shout (1978)
The Fatal Hour (1940)
12 Feet Deep (2017)
Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)
The Bribe (1949)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
Meyer from Berlin (1919)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Maggie (2015)
Caliber 9 (1972)
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
Rise: Blood Hunter 2007
Doctor Who: Black Orchid 1982
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
The Package (1989)
Bus Stop (1956)
Harakiri (1962)
The Night Runner (1957)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Special Effects (1984)
Step Down to Terror (1958)