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What I Watched in… September 2017

Favorite of the Month: Colossal (2017)
In the interest of full disclosure (and to generate a little content here) I thought I’d present a regular tally of what movies I managed to see in the previous month. Some of them I’ve written or talked about, most of them I haven’t. This list includes movies I saw for the first time, movies I’ve seen a thousand times, movies I saw in the theater, movies I watched at home, direct-to-DVD, made-for-TV and anything else that qualifies as a movie. I also choose my favorite of the month among those movies I saw for the first time, marked in red. Feel free to discuss or ask about any of them!
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), B+
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), B
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), B+
- Tom Felton Meets the Superfans (2015), B
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), B+
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), A-
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), A
- Monster on the Campus (1958), C-
- Father’s Little Dividend (1951), B+
- Village of the Damned (1960), B-
- Shaun of the Dead (2004), A
- Medusa Against the Son of Hercules (1963), D
- Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), D
- Colossal (2017), A-
- It Came From Outer Space (1953), B+
- Year of the Scab (2017), B+
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), B+
- The Muppets (2011), A
- DuckTales: Woo-oo! (2017), A
- Dial M For Murder (1954), B+
- The Mummy (2017), C
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), A
- Frankenstein (1931), A
- The Princess Bride (1987), A
- Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984), B+
- UHF (1989) A-
- Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (2008), B-
- The Wolf Man (1941), B+
- Count Dracula (1970), B-
What I Watched In… August 2017

Favorite of the Month: DuckTales: Woo-oo! (2017)
In the interest of full disclosure (and to generate a little content here) I thought I’d present a regular tally of what movies I managed to see in the previous month. Some of them I’ve written or talked about, most of them I haven’t. This list includes movies I saw for the first time, movies I’ve seen a thousand times, movies I saw in the theater, movies I watched at home, direct-to-DVD, made-for-TV and anything else that qualifies as a movie. I also choose my favorite of the month among those movies I saw for the first time, marked in red. Feel free to discuss or ask about any of them!
- The Land Unknown (1957), C-
- The Dark Tower (2017), B
- Calling Dr. Death (1943), C
- Curse of the Undead (1959), C+
- Shin Godzilla (2016), B+
- The Thin Man (1934), B
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), B+
- Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge (1979), D
- The Big Sleep (1946), A-
- Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam (1986), D+
- It Ain’t Hay (1943), C+
- DuckTales: Woo-oo! (2017), A
- Zootopia (2016), A
- Brave (2012), B
- Finding Dory (2016), A-
- Frozen (2013), A+
- The Monster Squad (1987), B+Initiation (2016), B-
- Megaforce (1982), D; RiffTrax Riff, B+
- Commando (1985), C+
- Meet the Robinsons (2007), B
- The Punisher (1989), D
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991), A
- RiffTrax Live: Doctor Who-The Five Doctors (2017), A-
- Death Note (2017), C
- Crawlspace (2012), B-
- Murder in the Rue Morgue (1932), C+
- Adaptation. (2002), B+
- Power Rangers (2017), B-
- Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977), D
- Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the Second Dimension (2011), A
What I Watched In… July 2017
In the interest of full disclosure (and to generate a little content here) I thought I’d present a regular tally of what movies I managed to see in the previous month. Some of them I’ve written or talked about, most of them I haven’t. This list includes movies I saw for the first time, movies I’ve seen a thousand times, movies I saw in the theater, movies I watched at home, direct-to-DVD, made-for-TV and anything else that qualifies as a movie. I also choose my favorite of the month among those movies I saw for the first time, marked in red. Feel free to discuss or ask about any of them!
July’s favorite of the month is a rare tie. Dunkirk was an excellent war movie. The Big Sick was a romantic comedy that struck me on a remarkably personal level. The two films are so different from one another that I simply couldn’t rank one above the other.
- Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), C
- Invasion of Astro-Monster aka Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero (1965), B+
- Mothra Vs. Godzilla aka Godzilla Vs. the Thing (1964), B+
- Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975), B-
- Godzilla’s Revenge aka All Monsters Attack (1969), F
- Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah (1995), B-
- Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003), B
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), B+
- Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), B+
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001), B
- Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle For Earth aka Godzilla Vs. Mothra (1992), B+
- Despicable Me 2 (2013), B
- Minions (2015), B
- The Secret Life of Pets (2016), B+
- Rodan (1956), B+
- Airplane! (1980), A
- The Lego Batman Movie (2017), A
- Dr. No (1962), B
- Harvey (1950), B+
- From Russia With Love (1963), B
- Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s the Fantastic Four (2015), B+
- The Time of Their Lives (1946), B+
- Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), A-
- Goldfinger (1964), B+
- The Amazing Spider-Man (1977), C
- Sing (2016), B+
- The Car (1977), D
- Thunderball (1965), C
- Return of the Fly (1959), C
- Godzilla 2000 (1999), C
- Father of the Bride (1950), A
- Jaws (1975), A+
- Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), C-
- Bratz (2007), D
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), A-
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), A
- Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978), C-
- You Only Live Twice (1967), B
- T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous (2017), C-
- Gymkata (1985), F
- War For the Planet of the Apes (2017), B+
- The Big Sick (2017), A+
- Galaxy Quest (1999), A
- Summer Magic (1963), B+
- Spaceballs (1987), B+
- Lifeboat (1944), A-
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), A
- Kong: Skull Island (2017), B
- Dunkirk (2017), A
- Ducktales: Treasure of the Golden Suns (1987), B+
- Ducktales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), B+
- Daffy Duck’s Movie: Fantastic Island (1983), B-
- The Man Called Flintstone (1966), B
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), B-
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), A-