I watched 35 movies in February. 23 of them were new to me. 22 of them were made before I was born. It was Foreign Film February, and I watched 9 films that were not in English.
It was a good month. I’ve been trying to do more official reviews for Cinema Sentries. I mean, I always do quite a bit, but I’m trying to step up my game. I like writing whatever random reviews I do just for this site, but I get distracted, so I figure making requests where I have to review will get me even more in the habit, and maybe that will lead somewhere.
But that does mean I won’t have as much time for watching whatever I want. This has always been the struggle for me. I’ll get a bunch of official reviews, and they stack up on my desk. I have to watch and review them all, which means I can’t watch whatever else I want. I get tired of that and stop making requests, then I really wish I was getting the cool stuff in the mail. Back and forth. Back and forth. So I’m trying to lean into the real reviews, and we’ll see how it goes.
Which means there is less time for Foreign Film February and whatever. But still I did pretty good, nine films for the monthly theme isn’t bad.
My most watched actors list got shaken up a little. James Stewart got bumped by Spencer Tracy. I had another one of those boxes that put Tracy up front with 5 films. Walter Brennan is tied in second place with four films, and Robert Ryan jumps into things with three films watched.
My director’s list finally has a couple of names on it. As this is Westerns in March month, I suspect we’ll see John Ford take a few leaps forward, but who else will join him?
That’s it. Here’s the full list:
Crime 101 (2026) **1/2
Port of Shadows (1938) ****1/2
Five Star Final (1931) ****
The Astronaut (2025) ***
Bad Moon (1996) *
Somewhere in Time (1980) ***
Scream 7 (2026) **
Wolfs (2024) ***1/2
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) ***1/2
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) ****
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear (1976) ****
Kagemusha (1980) ****
The Pyx (1973) ***1/2
Face/Off (1997) ****
The Cat o’ Nine Tails (1971) ****
Mogambo (1953) ***1/2
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) ***
Iphigenia (1977) ****1/2
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) ****1/2
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora (1976) ***1/2
Northwest Passage (1940) **
Libeled Lady (1936) ****
Fury (1936) ****
All That We Destroy (2019) **
Dillinger (1973) ***1/2
2 Minutes Late (1952) ****
The Naked Jungle (1954) ***
Borderline (2025) **1/2
Pierrot le Fou (1965) ****
Elevator to the Gallows (1958) ****1/2
Vengeance of the Zombies (1973) ***
The Five Venoms (1978) ***
Wild People (1932) **
Red Dust (1932) ****
The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) ***1/2
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