I watched 37 movies in April. 32 were new to me. Only eight of them were made before I was born. It was the Awesome 80s in April which explains why so many of them were not made before I was born. 18 of them were made in the 1980s.
It was a good month. I feel like I always say that. I guess there isn’t such a thing as a bad month watching movies. Unless you don’t get to watch any at all. But I did watch some good movies this month. There wasn’t anything particularly outstanding in the bunch, but there were a lot of very good ones.
The top actors list is fleshing out nicely. Tom Baker has taken the top spot with seven films. I continue to watch him in Doctor Who, and that’s why his companion in that show, Lalla Ward, is now in the top ten. I’ve actually taken to Letterboxd and started looking at big lists of classic Who stories and then trying to watch the ones I’ve never seen before. Or at least the ones I haven’t logged on Letterboxd before.
The director’s list hasn’t changed all that much. Spielberg has popped in, but nobody has challenged Yves Boisset with his four films, and most of the list is filled with just two film guys. I need to kick up my directing game, I guess.
Here’s the full list.
Dust Bunny (2025) ****
Die My Love (2025) ****
Sleeping Dogs (2024) ***
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen (1975) ***
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) ***
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) ****
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy (1971) **
Evil Dead Trap (1988) ***
Nightfall (1956) ****
Cherry 2000 (1987) **
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2025) ****
Doctor Who: Colony in Space (1971) ***1/2
So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious… (1975) ***
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon (1980) ***1/2
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) ***
Dead Bang (1989) ****
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) ****
Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) ***1/2
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971) ****
The Housemaid (2025) ***
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) ****
Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era (2024) **
Poltergeist III (1988) ***
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) **1/2
Poltergeist (1982) ****
TerrorVision (1986) ***
Out of Control (1985) **
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) ****
Spy, Stand Up (1982) ***1/2
La Femme flic (1980) ***1/2
Mad Enough to Kill (1975) ***1/2
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) ***1/2
The Lego Batman Movie (2017) ****
Invitation to Hell (1984) ***
Angel’s Leap (1971) ***1/2
Death Ship (1980) ***
We Bury the Dead (2024) ***1/2
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