March was a pretty stacked month compared to February, which as I mentioned last month, was mostly focused on awards season viewings. With the Academy Awards now in the rearview, I got back into the swing of things with a more varied selection of movies, though I caught a few screenings of the newly-minted Oscar…
Happy Oscar Sunday! This time last year, I was getting dressed up to watch the Academy Awards at the Academy Museum, but this year I’m celebrating the conclusion of awards season in a more relaxed fashion, though still slightly more exciting than just watching at home. My mom, who happens to be visiting Southern California…
While February was slightly extended yesterday thanks to Leap Day, the number of movies I watched overall was just below the number of days there were in the shortest month of the year. That’s not to say that I didn’t watch a lot, but I just watched a dozen new-to-me movies, and most of them…
January was a particularly exceptional month of screenings, to say the least, which included seeing Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone in person, twice! I was seated far away from both of them the first time around, for a special screening of Killers of the Flower Moon where they, along with Martin Scorsese and other notable…
As usual, this past year was filled with great movie discoveries and revisits. Though I didn’t watch quite as many movies in 2023 as I did in recent years, I still saw a ton, especially in theaters. I don’t take for granted how lucky I am to live in Los Angeles, where I have plenty…
Happy New Year! I’m excited to see what 2024 holds for me movie-wise and otherwise. But before diving into the new year, a quick recap of my movie-watching in the last month of 2023. I ended up rewatching more films than seeing some for the first time (partly due to revisiting some holiday classics), but…
November was another stacked month between watching film noir for Noirvember and keeping up with new releases. And perhaps the most thrilling event of all this month was the grand reopening of the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood! I’ve already seen a handful of films in the newly restored theater, including The Killer with David…
October was a busy movie-watching month that was basically bookended with two local film festivals; first was Beyond Fest, which started at the end of September and continued a little over a week into October, and then AFI Fest took place in Hollywood this past weekend (which included Greta Gerwig introducing a screening of A…
Like August, September continued a bit of the music and movies trend. Outside of actual cinema, I did go to a couple of other concerts, including Beyoncé (fingers crossed there will be a concert film of her Renaissance World Tour coming sooner than later). An event actually related to film that I had the pleasure…
I’m going to quote some Taylor Swift lyrics, to sum up this past month to start off this post and just say August slipped away into a moment in time. I’m still coasting on the high from the beginning of August when I saw Taylor Swift in concert for the first time for her Eras…