At the end of each year I try to compile all the movies I spent the most time thinking about through the year. These aren’t necessarily...

(Last year's Part I and Part II) A brief introduction: I watched a fair amount of film noir in 2021, but not nearly as many as I saw in...

Last year's westerns I don’t know exactly when I picked up my newfound interest in westerns, but I suspect it had something to do with...

(Last year's discoveries) I place science fiction and horror together since they were often connected in the days of early cinema, a time...

(Last year's list here) If you know me, you know that most of my movie-watching consists of films from 40, 50, 60 or more years ago. I...

(Here's last year's look at the '80s and '90s.) I saw so few movies during the 1990s that practically everything is new to me, so you’ll...

(Here's last year's look at the '80s and '90s.) Only in the past few years have I come to appreciate the 1980s. It wasn’t all bad hair...

After the 1940s, my favorite decade is the ‘70s. Although this is when I grew up, there are still many films from that decade I’ve yet to...

Last year’s list The 1960s tends to get the short shrift of my movie-watching time, stuck between film noir of the 1950s and the...

Last year's discoveries from the 1950s Please note that all genre films will have their own postings later in this journey. Forbidden...

Last year's list from the 1940s Please note that all genre films will have their own postings later in this journey. You’d think from...

I take great joy in discovering new-to-me movies and books and making lists about them. On this page you'll find several different...

My 1930s discoveries from last year Because I’ve largely eliminated genre pictures from these lists (they’ll be covered separately), I...

From last year, my Best of 2020: The 1920s Today begins my journey through my favorite movie discoveries from (mostly) each decade. Some...

Here’s last year’s discoveries in crime fiction, and this year I have even more titles: Dark Passage (1946), Nightfall (1947), Cassidy’s...

Today I’m kicking off my Best Discoveries of 2021 lists, a series of books and movies I enjoyed during the year in a variety of...