I watched 43 movies in the month of June. 35 of them had never been seen by me before. 20 of them were made before I was born. Eight of them were made in the last two years, which is an unusually high number for me.
There was no theme this month which is nice sometimes. I just watched what I wanted to watch. Although it did mean I hardly did any reviewing this month as I really need that theme to push me into it.
As we are six months into the year I’ll talk a little bit about how my year is going. I’ve watched 238 movies this year. That’s an average of 34 per month or 9.1 per week. Unsurprisingly, I watch most of my movies on the weekend.
Drama is my most watched genre with 97 films watched in that category. This is followed by Thriller (97 films), Crime (71 films), Horror (60 films), and Mystery (57 films).
English is my most watched language with 202 films being in that language. This is followed by Italian (11), Japanese (10), French (5), and Silent Films (3).
187 of the films I’ve watched were new to me, leaving 51 of them as rewatches. I try to keep my new watch-to-rewatch ratio at 75% and I’m at 78.6%.
As you can see the actors field has stayed more or less the same. The Doctor Who cast bumped up one (save for Carole Ann Ford who left the series at this point) and Barbara Stanwyck made the list with four films watched.
Terence Fisher joined the directorial ranks with two films (two Hammer Horrors) and Lucio Fulci jumped in as well with two.
Several months ago I posted one of these things to my Facebook account and a friend of mine noted how these fields are full of white dudes, with hardly a female or person of color to be found.
That hit hard as I know it to be true. There are excuses I could make like how Hollywood is run by white dudes. But I have been making an effort to watch films directed by women and people of color and to seek out actors in that same way. But I’m afraid my top draws continue to be white dudes.
Some favorite new watches from the last six months include The Great Train Robbery (1903), Battleship Potemkin (1925), Love Lies Bleeding (2024), Edge of the City (1957), and Sherlock, Jr (1924).
Anyway, here’s the June list.
Cemetery Man (1994) ****
Scotland, PA (2001) ****
Beware, My Lovely (1952) ***1/2
No Man of Her Own (1950) ***
Dark City (1950) ***1/2
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) ***1/2
Dream Demon (1988) ***1/2
Macbeth (1948) ****
Act of Violence (1948) ****
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) ****
Barbary Coast (1935) ***
Klute (1971) ****
Risky Business (1983) ***1/2
Top Gun (1986) ***
The Devil Rides Out (1968) ****
Demonia (1990) **
The First Omen (2024) ***
Doctor Who: The Rescue (1965) ***1/2
Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) ***1/2
Godzilla Minus One (2023) ****
The Deep (1977) **1/2
Drive (2011) ****
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) ***
The Fall Guy (2024) ****
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) ***
Love Lies Bleeding (2024) ****1/2
Late Night with the Devil (2023) ***1/2
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) ***
Candyman (1992) ***
Edge of the City (1957) ****1/2
Saigon (1947) **1/2
Corridors of Blood (1958) ***1/2
Comrade X (1940) ****
Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023) ***1/2
The Burglars (1971) ***1/2
Flatliners (1990) **1/2
Wicked Little Letters (2023) ***1/2
The Good Die Young (1954) ***1/2
Sylvia Scarlett (1935) ***
Night Terrors (1993) **
Immaculate (2024) ***1/2
The Wrath of Becky (2023) **
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) ***
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Mat you should try to find The Hidden science fiction and violence.
John
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093185/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Is this the one you are talking about? I’ve seen that one and quite liked it.
Mat that is the one. If you read there are some great books by Dean Koontz The Watchers which they made 3 movies about it and all were bad.
There is one called Whispers that is quite good. The book is better in most cases but this one at least has the same plot lines.
John
Oh man, I loved Dean Koontz when I was a teenager. Haven’t read anything by him in ages. Might have to pick up one sometime soon.