Wednesday, June 21, 2023

What I Watched in May 2023


The List

DANCE, CHARLIE, DANCE (1937) – 6 (rewatch – fun little theatrical comedy) 
BERLIN CORRESPONDANT (1942) – 6 (pretty good wartime propaganda with Dana Andrews) 
PALE BLOOD (1990) – 5 (it tries to do something interesting with vampires but is too flat)
MAN WITH THE GUN (1955) – 7 (solid western with Robert Mitchum cleaning up a town)
HAND OF DEATH (1962) – 5 (rewatch) (still flat and disappointing)
RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS (1983) – 3 (rewatch)
THE MAD GHOUL (1943) – 6 (rewatch)
THE CAT CREEPS (1946) – 6 (nice little mystery/chiller) 
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 (2023) – 9 (I laughed, I cried – it became a part of me)
BOBBY WARE IS MISSING (1955) – 5 (OK crime thriller) 
A HOLE IN THE HEAD (1959) – 7 (Capra and Sinatra adapt a Florida-set play)
THE SEVENTH GRAVE (1965) – 5 (rare Italian gothic) 
ALONG CAME JONES (1945) – 7 (comedic but violent western with Gary Cooper) 
MALONE (1987) – 5 (flat action tale with Burt Reynolds) 
THUNDER ROAD (1958) – 7 (Mitchum as a bootlegged whiskey runner) 
DON’T BREATHE 2 (2021) – 6 (well made, beautifully photographed but not as interesting as the first) 
MOTHRA (1961) – 8 (rewatch on Blu)
THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (1968) – 7 (Truffaut’s adaptation of Cornell Woolrich) 
MY GUN IS QUICK (1957) – 7 (very good Mike Hammer tale)
WHIPSAW (1935) – 8 (excellent crime tale with Myrna Loy and Sencer Tracy) 
STUNT ROCK (1978) – 5 (rewatch on Blu) 
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (1952) – 6 (Abbot & Costello silliness)
LI’L ABNER (1940) – 6 (fun, silly adaptation of the comic strip)
LOOSE ANKLES (1930) – 5 (OK rom-com adapted from a play) 
ALFRED THE GREAT (1969) – 6 (historical epic - feels like important bits were removed) 
CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE (1976) – 6 (sloppy but interesting bigfoot tale)
FATHER BROWN (1954) – 8 (fun adaptation with Guinness in the title role) 
THE SPIDER WOMAN (1944) – 7 (rewatch)
HOUSE OF GUCCI (2021) – 7 
ZARAK (1957) – 7 (colorful adventure epic)



 

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