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)