recollective

It’s hard to believe we’re already more than a month into 2024. I hope you’ve had a good viewing year so far! January was a big month of re-watching for me. (My new-to-me viewing has picked up in February, though!) Here’s a look back at what I watched in the first month of the year. New-to-me viewings: 3 Re-watches: 15 Total for January: 18 Total for 2024 (so far): 18 The new-to-me…

Hey there, movie buffs! Once again, I find myself in a position where it has been a ridiculously long time since I last blogged. As a warning, this post will be somewhat sad. But if you skip ahead to the recap section, you’ll see the good, bad, and weird of everything I’ve watched since 2020. Where I’ve Been (Again) My last update here was in 2021. I told you where I’d been and shared my picks…

Collector’s Corner: Criterion Flash Sale Picks

In the next Collector’s Corner, I’ll talk about decluttering my film-related book collection. I haven’t decluttered my DVD and Blu-ray collection in the same way — discs are lighter and easier to move, haha — but I’ve slowed down on buying them over the past couple of years. I skipped several Criterion flash sales and B&N sales in my time away from the blog (almost all of them, in fact), but my…

The Blog That Wouldn’t Die (or: Where I’ve Been)

Hi there, movie buffs! It’s been a long time since I’ve written here — well over a year. A lot has happened in that time. I’ll spare you most of the details of the last 17-ish months, but what started as a short break to adjust to the stresses of a global “panoramic” (as the Internet sometimes calls it) became an extended period of (not new, but worsening) depression and anxiety, followed by…