I watched 38 movies in April 2024. 30 of them were new to me. 11 of them were made before I was born. It was the Awesome ’80s in April and I watched 21 movies from that decade.

It was a fairly typical month for me. I’d watch a movie or two during the week and then watch several over the weekend. One day I’ll get a life and I’ll only watch 25 movies in a month!

I do love watching movies from the 1980s, especially ones that I’ve not heard of before, or that I’ve never seen because I was too young to be interested in them before. I got to watch films like Breathless, The Killer, and 8 Million Ways To Die – films I probably would have landed on sooner or later, but this month spurned me to watch them sooner and I’m happy about that.

As much as I do enjoy movies from the 1980s it amuses me to look at this month’s list and notice that I alternate the 1980s with films from the 1930s and 1940s.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that my family and I watch Doctor Who on Friday nights. As my daughter gets older that is happening less and less. She often sleeps over at a friend’s or has her friends over at our house, or we all just get busy and don’t get to The Doctor. To make up for this my wife and I have been watching movies based on Agatha Christie stories. This month we watched several starring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot and that’s been a lot of fun.

Clark Gable remains my top-watched actor this year with seven movies seen by me. But following close behind are Lee Van Cleef and Humphrey Bogart each with six films watched. All of those Poirot films bumped Peter Ustinov up to third place with four films watched.

And here’s the complete list:

Murder by Decree (1979) – ***1/2
Murder in Three Acts (1986) – ***1/2
Hard Boiled (1992) – ****
Dark Journey (1937) – ***1/2
Dancing Lady (1933) ****
Hospital Massacre (1981) – ***1/2
The Ninth Configuration (1980) – *
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) – ****
Starman (1984) – ***
High Noon (1952) – ****
Now, Voyager (1942) – ****1/2
The Witches of Eastwick (1987) – ***1/2
Three on a Match (1932) – **1/2
Sahara (1943) – ****
The Big Shot (1942) – ***
Death on the Nile (1978) – ***1/2
Child’s Play (1988) – ***
The Bounty (1984) – ***1/2
Working Girls (1986) – ****
The Killer (1989) – ****
A Perfect World (1993) – ****
Doctor Who: The Aztecs (1964) – **
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) – ****1/2
Destry Rides Again (1939) – ****1/2
Conquest (1983)- ***1/2
Dead Man’s Folly (1986) – ***
8 Million Ways to Die (1986) – ****
The Entity (1982) – ***
Another Fine Mess (1930) – ***
The Octagon (1980) – *
The Star Chamber (1983) – ***1/2
Breathless (1983) – ****
Streets of Fire (1984) – ****
Into the Night (1985) – ***1/2
Nighthawks (1981) – ***1/2
From Beyond (1986) – ***1/2
Maximum Overdrive (1986) – *
They Drive by Night (1940) – ****