My Year In Film 2023

 TAKING A LOOK BACK AT THE BEST, MOST FAVOURITEST  FILMS I WATCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN 2023!

• TAR (2022)
• SYLVIO 
• SAHARA
• JOHNNY EAGER
• THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING
• SHE SAID
• THE MENU
• EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
• THE WOMAN KING
• THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
• HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK
• ON ICE
• BEAT STREET
• THE FROGMEN

• THE FABELMANS  (2022)
• HITMAN HART:  WRESTLING WITH SHADOWS (1998)
• BLITZED:  THE 80'S BLITZ KIDS STORY
• WOMEN TALKING  (2022)
• IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS III  (2023)
• SPOOK-SPOOFING
• BLOODY BIRTHDAY
• MASSAGE PARLOR MURDERS
• FREEWAY 2:  CONFESSIONS OF A TRICKBABY
• MARIANNE & LEONARD:  WORDS OF LOVE
• CRAZY FAT ETHEL
• MARTIN LUTHER
• HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE
• LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS

• THE GENTLEMEN
• COCAINE BEAR
• RITA MORENO:  JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT
• LUCKY #SLEVIN
• THE HAKA
• A RAISIN IN THE SUN
• MAN FROM EARTH
• THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
• THE BIG GUNDOWN
• TWISTED NERVE
• UP TIGHT
• WEIRD:  THE AL YANKOVIC STORY
• RONIN
• THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

• MALCOLM X  (1972)
• SHIN ULTRAMAN
• SUBSPECIES V:  BLOODRISE  
• WAITING FOR GORGO
• TERROR AT TENKILLER
• BETTY BLUE
• THE INCIDENT
• HOUSEBOAT HORROR
• CALAMITY JANE
• MOLLY'S GAME
• REMEMBER
• WHEN WE WERE KINGS
• SPARROWS
• DANTON

• PILGRIMAGE
• UNKNOWN:  CAVE OF BONES
• ASTEROID CITY
• SCARAMOUCHE
• THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER
• THE BIG COUNTRY
• TRANCERS
• DIO: DREAMERS NEVER DIE
• AN INSPECTOR CALLS
• TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF DESTINY  (2006)
• ORDERS TO KILL
• A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS  (2022)
• BARBIE  (2023)
• THE CHRISTMAS MARTIAN  (1971)
• NICKY'S FAMILY  (2011)
• THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES  (1976)

MY MOST WATCHED STARS OF 2023

CLICK HERE TO SEE MY LETTERBOXD LIST OF ALL THE MOVIES I WATCHED IN 2023

CLICK HERE TO SEE MY TMDB LIST OF EVERY MOVIE AND TV SHOW I WATCHED IN 2023!

AND . . . 

Click here to watch my Youtuber Playlist of movie trailers of everything I watched during 2023.

SEEIN' STARS BY FEG MURRAY

 Fred Murray was an Olympic hurdler who won a bronze medal at the 1920 Olympic games.  Of course, no one in their right mind cares at the Olympics so Murray's REAL claim to fame around here is when he wrote and drew a daily "Ripley's Believe It Or Not"-type daily comic strip called "SEEIN' STARS" from 1933 to 1941 (which continued on Sundays only until 1951)!  Whereas Ripley's cartoons focused on the odd, Feg Murray focused on Hollywood and it's movie stars and the art here is every bit the equal of anything appearing in Ripley.  The celebrities almost always have extremely good likenesses and you can tell who they are without reading a word!  Here's a (rather lengthy) sampling of his wonderful columns which I wish were collected in book form.

1973: SOME FAVOURITE FILMS FROM 50 YEARS AGO

 IT'S BEEN AWHILE.  I used to do this every year but fell off the earth the last several years.  And I'm back to let you know I can really shake 'em down.  No wait, that's a song.  Anyways, these are my top 10 favourite movies from 50 years ago in 1973 (in ascending order):

10.    THEATRE OF BLOOD

9.    THE LAST OF SHEILA

8.    THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE

7.    THE EXORCIST

6.    CHARLEY VARRICK

5.    PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID

4.    JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

3.    THE WICKER MAN

2.    THE LONG GOODBYE

1.    F FOR FAKE