Collage of some of the films I watched/re-watched in December I don't know about you, but it's pretty rare for me to watch many new-to-me movies in December—usually we end up cycling through seasonal favorites. This year tho, I finally checked a Finnish Christmas horror off my watchlist, enjoyed some spooky British ghost stories, learned … Continue reading Watch More Movies Notebook: December ‘25
What 2025’s annual round-up is a bit different this time around! Not in format—I’m sticking to the same format as the last couple of years—but in content. Without realizing it as the year went by, my viewing habits had much more variety. Usually, the stats that emerge in my end-of-year assessment line up pretty cleanly … Continue reading Watch More Movies ’25: Annual Roundup
My closet cosplay of Barbara Stanwyck in Christmas in Connecticut I’ve wanted to do this cosplay for a minute now and finally got around to it! However, I have not yet learned the lesson that the holiday season is too busy for me to get a proper Cosplay the Classics post out! My closet cosplay … Continue reading Cosplay the Classics: Barbara Stanwyck as Elizabeth Lane in Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Collage of some of the films I watched/re-watched in November Did this round up end up becoming a little showcase for Argentinian noir? Maybe so, but I also managed to get in a Mexican noir and Mexican noir-adjacent film, a silent Tudor-era epic, some Japanese animation, a Korean social drama, a globe-trotting action adventure by … Continue reading Watch More Movies Notebook: November ‘25
My title-card collage of the 1922 Marion Davies' film When Knighthood Was in Flower Just over a hundred years ago, in 1924, Screenland magazine took stock of the maturing feature-film medium. Canvassing industry figures like magazine and newspaper critics and editors, writers, and the head of a major studio and then including feedback from the … Continue reading Best Films before 1924: When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)
How to Play: Click/tap and drag the GIF and the poster in the frame is the film for you! Way, way back in the day I made a series of videos of themed horror film recommendations called “Fright Roulette.” The idea came to me recently that it might be fun to revive that in GIF … Continue reading Film Noir Roulette: Essential Classics
Collage of some of the films I watched/wrote about in October Look at me watching movies that are new and not just new to me! In this installment of Watch More Movies notebook, you'll find a Korean period spy drama, two animated films about pop idols with secret skill sets—90 years apart, a horror-comedy that's … Continue reading Watch More Movies Notebook: October ‘25
poster collage of some of the films from my noirvember watchlist Here’s my noirvember watchlist in case you all are looking for some inspo. There’s no way I’m gonna make it through my whole list this year—I’ve only watched two and we’re already ⅓ of the way through the month! My hopes are high regardless. … Continue reading Noirvember ’25
No, that’s not a typo in the title! October was so busy, I didn’t have time to finish this round-up until now! September wasn’t the most eventful in terms of first-time watches, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to bring up some favorite re-watches too. Read on for more about a sapphic short-film collection, … Continue reading Watch More Movies Notebook: September ‘25
When an artist throws a stone into the pond of their chosen medium, sometimes the stone makes a big splash then quickly gets swallowed up and sometimes the stone skips across, leaving reverberating ripples across the whole surface of the pond—even without the violence of that initial splash. Though I only just watched Julie Dash’s … Continue reading Julie Dash’s Illusions (1982)
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