What I Watched in September

Only one trip to the theaters in September. I caught the adaptation of Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder mystery A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES and thought it was solid without being great. Liam Neeson is good in the lead role even if his accent slips away on more than a few occasions. The story is very well scripted and the film is well cast but it plays more as a pilot film for a cable TV series than as a theatrical movie. The villains are truly nasty and their fates are well deserved but the hunt for them seems to be over a little too quickly. I could enjoy more of this character played by Neeson but I doubt that will happen.

EARTHQUAKE (1974)- 7 (melodramatic but excellent disaster porn!)

RED SCORPION (1988)- 6 (overlong and a little sloppy near the end but good)

THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH (1963)- 2 (terrible, dull non-SF)

PLANET OF THE APES (2001) -5 (rewatch)

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (2012)- 8

COMANDO TXIKIA: DEATH OF A PRESIDENT (1977)- 5

THE CONQUEROR  OF THE ORIENT (1960)- 4 (not very good adventure tale)

CALL HER SAVAGE (1932)- 7 (Clara Bow pre-code melodrama)

JOE (2013)- 10 (excellent Texas character study with Nicholas Cage)

OPERATION CROSSBOW (1965)- 9 (very good WWII espionage tale)

THE SILENCERS (1966)- 7 (fun, silly spy tale)

RED RIDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1974 (2009)- 8

RED RIDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR 1980 (2009)- 8

STREET SCENE (1931)- 7 (dated but very good adaptation of a stage play -the Pre-Code nature of the story adds interest)

MURDERERS' ROW (1966)- 3 (Holy Crap!)

THE CRAFT (1995)- 7 (finally caught this and it is not bad) 

DIE MONSTER, DIE! (1965)- 7 (rewatch)

SUBSPECIES (1991)- 5 (rewatch)

THE SNIPER (1952)- 7 (well done study of an urban killer)

PATRICK (2013)- 7 (solid, well done remake)

A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (2014)- 7

MUPPETS MOST WANTED (2014)- 9 (great fun!)

INVISIBLE MAN VS THE HUMAN FLY (1957)- 6

ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE? (1978)- 5 (TV movie about a teenage rape victim)

MINDHUNTERS (2004)- 4 (aggressively stupid but entertaining)