Friday, July 31, 2009

July movies

Obviously the high point of the month of July was the all-night, five film marathon that was Slumber Party. Wow, that was a lot of fun! If you were in the Tulsa area and didn't go--you missed a night of unhinged horror film related glee. I also really enjoyed the music documentary Anvil and thought Bruno was funny (and very filthy) but not the electric charge that was Borat. Two five star films: Metropolitan and Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges I am in awe of you!). Here's the rundown for the month.

Away We Go---2009---usa ***1/2
Lights in the Dark---2005---finland ***
Metropolitan---1990---usa *****!
Anvil---2009---usa ****
The Gates---2007---usa ***
Blue Thunder---1983---usa ***1/2
Dixie Dynamite---1976---usa **1/2
Return of the Living Dead---1985---usa ****
Hausu---1977---japan ****
The Burning---1981---usa ***
Night Warning---1983---usa ***1/2
Race With the Devil---1975---usa ***1/2
Moon---2009---england ****
Bruno---2009---usa ***1/2
Tyson---2009---usa ***1/2
Sullivan's Travels---1941---usa *****!
Funny People---2009---usa ***

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow - over 80% domestic for July - that's a little surprising!

- sd

Joshua Blevins Peck said...

Three foreign films in a month is kind of a low total. I don't know what happened there, ha.

Joshua Blevins Peck said...

I think I overscored Funny People...the more I thought about it the more I realized it goes really downhill in the second half of the film. It gets pretty ponderous actually, dragging on and on. *** instead of ***1/2!