I am working diligently on getting the new site up and running. I’ve been able to import most of my favorite artists and have started importing all of the many artists who I don’t really collect but whom I have one or two or three shows from. There are a ton of them so that is going to be a slow process.
I suspect I’ll go ahead and start letting people in next week. But I’ll have more on that once I’m ready.
Clearly, I’ve not been posting to this site as I’ve been doing all that work on the new one. But The Midnight Cafe is important to me. I hope to continue writing about movies and other things even though I’m moving the music sharing elsewhere. As such I wanted to go ahead and do my regular movie breakdown for February.
I watched 41 movies in July. 35 of them were new to me. 15 of them were made before I was born. This month’s theme was Sci-Fi in July and I watched 21 movies in that genre (more or less, science fiction is hard to pin down). I watched two movies from 2024, one of which (Maxxxine) I actually watched in the theater.
I quite enjoyed watching science fiction films this month. That’s a genre I like, but don’t necessarily gravitate towards. So it was fun digging into it a little bit, although as usual, I didn’t do as much writing about it as I wanted to.
The actor’s list stayed pretty much the same this month save for Christopher Lee jumping into that four-way tie for third place with six films watched. I caught a couple of his Hammer Horror films this month.
The director’s field changed a bit with Terence Fisher entering the scene in first place with five films. He helmed a bunch of those Hammer Horror films and the wife and I have been watching a lot of them this year. George Cukor also entered the list with three films. There are at least 16 directors with two films on the list. At this point of the year, I start thinking about these contests, so I’ll probably start planning some viewings from a few of these directors.
Here’s the full list:
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) ****
Demons 2 (1986) ***1/2
Demons (1985) ****
Your Name. (2016) ****
It Should Happen to You (1954) ****
The Gorgon (1964) ***1/2
Phase IV (1974) ****
Stolen Face (1952) **
Limbo (2023) ***1/2
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) ***1/2
The Return of Godzilla (1984) ****
Lady Terminator (1989) ***
Tchao Pantin (1983) ****
Ten Little Indians (1989) ***
The Evil (1978) ***1/2
Brightburn (2019) ***
The Quiet Earth (1985) ****
Doctor Who: The Romans (1965) ***1/2
The More the Merrier (1943) ****
Stargate (1994) ***
Sphere (1998) **
Lady Frankenstein (1971) ***1/2
Eyewitness (1981) ***1/2
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) ***1/2
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) ***1/2
The Canyons (2013) *1/2
MaXXXine (2024) ***1/2
The Good German (2006) ***1/2
Bandits of Orgosolo (1961) ****1/2
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940) ***
Poor Things (2023) ****
Virus (1980) ***
The City of the Dead (1960) ****
The Night Strangler (1973) ***
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) ****
Barbarella (1968) ***1/2
Akira (1988) ****
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) ***
Palm Springs (2020) ****
Paprika (2006) ****
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Hi Matt.
Since receiving your emails regarding the “your decision” all my previous emails for shows of the day are still in my mail inbox. The issue is when i try to view in a browser I click open and it opens with an error message stating nothing found at this site. I am logged in to wordpress but the whole email just doesn’t exist anymore.
Any ideas?
PS. When i log out of The Midnight Cafe i get another message saying this site is private and i can’t read your blog posts.
As I am switching over to a new site I am exporting shows from the old Midnight Cafe and importing them to the new one. Once they are imported to the new site I delete them from the old one. So when you click on those old e-mails they are directing you to the old site but those shows no longer exist on it.
Once I open the new site you will be able to find those old shows (but the e-mail still won’t work because they will still direct you to the old site).
Both the old site and the new one are private. So you have to be logged into WordPress and be invited in to see anyting on them. Does that makes sense?
Thanks for the reply Mat and yes i can understand that.