April was another exciting month, kicking off with the Noir City film festival and ending with the start of the TCMFF! Today is actually the first full day of the fest, so I’m keeping this wrap-up relatively brief. But some special screening highlights of the month include The Long Goodbye with Elliott Gould, Zodiac with…
It’s nearly time for my favorite annual event, the TCM Classic Film Festival! The 17th edition officially kicks off a week from today, and it’ll be my sixth time attending the fest. As usual, there are always a few tough choices to make between what movies to see and events to go to, but in…
March was a memorable month; not only did I celebrate another birthday, but I also got to attend the red carpet for the Academy Awards, a truly unforgettable experience! Movie-wise, I had incredibly fortunate opportunities to finally check out two movies that had been on my watchlist for many years but couldn’t see because of…
Oscar Sunday is nearly upon us! It’s sure to be an exciting ceremony, with a lot of the major categories seeming to be not as easy to predict as usual. It’ll be an especially thrilling time for me, as I was randomly selected by the Academy Museum to attend the Oscars Red Carpet Fan Experience!…
February was a jam-packed month with all the FYC screenings happening around town at the height of awards season. I was lucky to attend quite a few, including with Oscar-nominated stars Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another), Delroy Lindo (Sinners), Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value), Jacob…
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…
