It was a pretty good start to a new year of movie-watching. Some highlights from my theater experiences in January included Bugonia with Jesse Plemons (in conversation with Adam Scott), Sentimental Value with Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, Song Sung Blue with Kate Hudson (in conversation with Zooey Deschanel), and The Moment with Aidan Zamiri…
It was another great year in movie-going in Los Angeles and beyond (from the comforts of home to the streets of New York!). I ended up seeing more than 300 films on the big screen, which was a lot more than last year’s tally. What can I say, I love seeing movies in movie theaters!…
Happy New Year! December was a bittersweet month, as I reflected a lot on the screen legends we lost this past year through the films I watched in the last days of 2025. I’m eternally grateful we have their films to enjoy, and it was great to revisit some of their work, as well as…
A good mix of movies this past month, between watching films for Noirvember and catching new releases, whether it was seeing them for the first time or revisiting them once again. I’m a little late in getting this monthly wrap-up post up, so I won’t go into some of the highlights of November, but as…
October was an incredibly busy month of entertainment for me. That’s primarily because I took a trip to New York City, wherein I attended the closing weekend of the New York Film Festival (my first time back at the fest in four years!), as well as a couple of other screenings around town. Before my…
September was a jam-packed month, between catching up with some movies that TCM programmed for Summer Under the Stars, watching new releases (including seeing Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, One Battle After Another, screened in beautiful VistaVision), and attending Beyond Fest screenings (which is still going on for a few more days!). Among my favorite…
The last full month of summer saw a lot of enjoyable viewings, both in theaters and at home. I kicked off August with the new horror movie Together, which featured a Q&A with director/writer Michael Shanks and stars Dave Franco and Alison Brie (and I got to meet the couple at a pop-up event for…
It felt like I spent much of July inside a movie theater; in fact, I saw more than 30 films on the big screen over the course of the month! A good chunk of that was due to some cool 70mm screenings, mostly from the American Cinematheque’s annual Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest, which included a…
I ended up revisiting a lot more movies than watching ones I hadn’t seen before in June, but most of what I re-watched was seeing great films on the big screen for the first time. That included Ben-Hur and Cleopatra at the Academy Museum as part of their Oscar Sundays screenings (I also saw The…
After all the excitement from the TCM Classic Film Festival in April, my moviegoing in May was a little more chill. I did attend a few cool screenings throughout the month, including 50th anniversary screenings at the Egyptian of Nashville with stars Keith Carradine and Ronee Blakley, and Cooley High with director Michael Schultz and stars…
It’s been about a month since the 16th TCM Classic Film Festival, and as usual, it was a fantastic time at the movies. It was my fifth time attending my favorite festival in person, and it may have just been one of the very best experiences of all the times I’ve gone! As I do…
As usual, April was a jam-packed month, mostly thanks to the annual TCM Classic Film Festival! It was another fantastic weekend in Hollywood, and I’m still sort of recovering from all the excitement that commenced a few days ago. I’ll write up a separate post on my TCMFF experience before the month ends. Before all…
The TCM Classic Film Festival returns for its 16th edition in just a few weeks, and it’ll be my fifth time attending in person! The schedule was released a couple of days ago, and somewhat surprisingly, I’ve made most of my initial choices without any big conflicts to mull over. Though, of course, that doesn’t…
I went to a lot of cool screenings in March, with my favorite being The Thing at the Academy Museum, which was preceded by a Q&A with John Carpenter and Bong Joon Ho. I also spent much of the past two weekends at the Egyptian Theatre for this year’s edition of the Noir City Film…
Happy Oscar Sunday! Tonight I’ll be celebrating the Academy Awards at the Academy Museum, where I watched the ceremony two years ago, so I’m excited to be back there for Hollywood’s biggest night. That of course brings me to my annual Oscar picks and predictions post, which I’ll be keeping brief this time around. So…
