Aw, that’s cute, I thought I wasn’t going to watch as many movies as I did in 2022. Instead I went from 423 watched to 508 watched. Remember when I said “I want to spend more time following my whims”? That worked out really well. In 2022, I did a weekly challenge plus a weekly movie watching club plus another weekly movie watching club – it got to be a grind. In 2023 I was more varied about my tastes and I had more fun. ...
The second jury found the defendant guilty on all counts. As I said earlier this year, I’m at ease with my decision. Now that the case is over, I am comfortable saying that I think the defendant probably did it – I just didn’t think the evidence at hand proved it beyond a reasonable doubt. There were no eyewitnesses who could identify the defendant as the shooter, although the shooter was inside a car which was clearly the defendant’s. He and his girlfriend certainly acted like people who wanted to hide their car after the murder. If I knew my car has been used to commit a crime, and I was living the life this guy was leading, I don’t think I’d be too optimistic about telling the police that it was my car but it wasn’t me. ...
Movies reviewed this week: Hour of the Wolf, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Spiral, New Nightmare, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Flu, The Fury, Mimic, and Battleship Potemkin.
Movies reviewed this week: Possession, Something in the Dirt, Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming, Wild Strawberries, Anatomy of a Murder, The Endless, Resolution, Night of the Living Dead, and Mangrove.
Movies reviewed this week: Blue Ruin, Once Upon a Time in Uganda, Nightbreed, Elemental, The Day of the Beast, The Exorcist III, The Novice, and Dracula.
Movies reviewed this week: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Achoura, Le Havre, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Rat Catcher, Salem’s Lot, Let the Sunshine In, and The Brides of Dracula.
Movies reviewed this week: Ghosts of Mars, The Swan, The Night Eats the World, Phantom of the Paradise, Meek’s Cutoff, Synchronic, Mississippi Masala, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, From the Life of the Marionettes, Candyman, The Beast Must Die, Huesera: The Bone Woman, A Separation, and Faust.
Movies reviewed this week: Satanic Panic, Panic in the Streets, The Kid with a Bike, The Unbelievable Truth, The People Under the Stairs, Under the Skin, Walkabout, Dracula 3000, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Movies reviewed this week: Gaslight, Ladies in Retirement, King Creole, Spring, Black Sunday, The Tower, Syndicate Sadists, and The House That Dripped Blood.
Movies reviewed this week: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Bottoms, Chan Is Missing, Saraband, The Dunwich Horror, Daughters of Darkness, Elvis, Depraved, The Devil Down Under: Satanic Panic in Australia from Rosaleen Norton to Alison’s Birthday, Alison’s Birthday, and Johnny Mnemonic.