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(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 51) 10/31/2022 The Woman in Black (2012) In Edwardian England, a young widower is sent to a remote rural village to settle the affairs of an estate so that the house may be sold. The locals are eager to see him...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 50) 10/30/2022 X (2022) A couple of strippers and their manager travel to a dilapidated farm with a well-endowed Vietnam vet, an aspiring filmmaker, and his young girlfriend to shoot an amateur porno. Things don't...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) Had some friends over for my first time doing a double feature for The Shining and Doctor Sleep in one sitting. it was long, well over five hours with the DC of Doctor Sleep, but very rewarding. 48) 10/29/2022 The...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 47) 10/27/2022 Halloween Kills [Director's Cut] (2021) This is the sequel to David Gordon Green's 2018 resurrection of the franchise, confusingly also titled Halloween, but watching it directly after the original...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 45) 10/26/2022 The Winchesters 1x03 - "You're Lost Little Girl" This show continues to frustrate me. Another cool monster this week, the Bori Baba, that the show doesn't utilize to its full potential. And strangely...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 42) 10/25/2022 The Midnight Club 1x08 - "Road to Nowhere" Ilonka finds herself armed with dangerous information that she is not equipped to handle. The woman in the woods makes Ilonka an enticing offer. Cheri shares...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 41) 10/25/2022 Come to Daddy (2020) When Norval was five, his father abandoned him and his mother, and he hasn't seen him since. But when he accepts an invitation to visit his father at his remote cabin on the...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 39) 10/24/2022 The Walking Dead 11x20 - "What's Been Lost" Pamela Milton retaliates for the events of Founders Day. Lance Hornsby misreads a key situation. Yumiko has to decide what her priorities are. Daryl and...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 37) 10/23/2022 The Midnight Club 1x06 - "Witch" As the life of one of their own hangs in the balance, Dr. Stanton gives Ilonka an impassioned warning while the lady in the woods encourages and helps facilitate her...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 33) 10/22/2022 Snatchers (2019) After years of being an unpopular nerd, Sara Steinberg got in with the popular kids during her sophomore year of high school. But her social dominance is threatened when her jock...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 31) 10/21/2022 Reginald The Vampire 1x03 - "Hypnos" I forgot to record this on Wednesday, so I had to watch it on demand via the Spectrum app on my Roku. Reginald gets another shot at dating the girl he likes, but...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 30) 10/20/2022 American Horror Story: NYC 11x01 - "Something's Coming" After skipping the last several seasons of "American Horror Story", this challenge inspired me to give the new one a shot. A lot of the...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 29) 10/18/2022 The Winchesters 1x02 - "Teach Your Children Well" There is about three-fifths of a good show here. I like John and Mary together, the son who was deliberately kept from in the dark about the...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 28) 10/18/2022 The Walking Dead 11x19 - "Variant" A couple major character moments for Eugene and Princess are offset by a drastic change to the Walking Dead's mythology that feels too late in the game and too unearned.

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 26) 10/17/2022 The Midnight Club 1x03 - "The Wicked Heart" Family day provides new insights into the patients. Ilonka investigates more of Brightcliffe's secrets. And Natsuki loses a friend... but maybe hasn't seen...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 25) 10/15/2022 The Midnight Club 1x02 - "The Two Danas" Ilonka's efforts to live cause tension with her roommate, who has seen far too much death. Ilonka meets a mysterious stranger in the woods outside...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 24) 10/14/2022 Barbarian (2022) This was both the scariest and the wildest movie I've seen so far this year. The less you know about it going into it, the better. I do think the hotel industry should have financed...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 22) 10/13/2022 Reginald The Vampire 1x02 - "Dead Weight" Two episodes in, and I'm enjoying it. The stakes are deliberately low, with Reginald just trying to figure out how to stay alive, be a vampire without being...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 21) 10/12/2022 Among the Shadows (2019) I picked this one because the brief synopsis on Hulu sounded interesting and I was tired and looking to avoid anything intellectually demanding. I'm pretty sure it began...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 18) 10/11/2022 The Outsider 1x09 - "Tigers and Bears" A tragedy in the past in crucial to stopping a great evil in the present. As the killer licks his wounds, his enemies marshal their forces. But one loose tongue...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 16) 10/10/2022 The Walking Dead 11x18 - "A New Deal" The leaders of the settlements strike a cynical yet mutually beneficial deal with Pamela Milton, the leader of the Commonwealth. But events set into motion by...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 15) 10/10/2022 The Midnight Club 1x01 - "The Final Chapter" Mike Flanagan is arguably the most successful horror filmmaker of the twenty-first century so far, with seven feature films and three acclaimed Netflix...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 13) 10/09/2022 The Outsider 1x06 - "The One About the Yiddish Vampire" When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. 14) 10/09/2022 The Outsider 1x07 - "In the...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 10) 10/08/2022 The Outsider 1x04 - "Que Viene el Coco" Holly identifies two connected child murders with remarkable parallels to the killing of Frankie Peterson. As she digs deeper, her investigation takes her...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 08) 10/07/2022 The Outsider 1x02 - "Roanoke" In the aftermath of Frankie Peterson's brutal murder and Terry Maitland's high-profile arrest, the tragedies keep piling up and there are reasons to believe that those...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 07) 10/06/2022 Reginald The Vampire 1x01 - "Dead Weight" Reginald Baskin is a fat, bald twentysomething working a dead end job making slushies. One night, he gets involved with a dashing young man who encourages...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 06) 10/05/2022 The Outsider 1x01 - "Fish in a Barrell" This miniseries adapts Stephen King's novel, the fourth to feature his neurodivergent investigator Holly Gibney. Terry Maitland is a beloved little league...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 05) 10/04/2022 I Am Lisa (2020) This was a Vudu Free With Ads find for me. It's an indie flick shot on a tiny budget in and around Kansas City, MO, with the kind of authentic cut corners and shortcomings that...

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 04) 10/03/2022 The Walking Dead 11x17 - "Lockdown" Television's longest running and highest rated zombie show begins its final run of episodes as it shuffles toward it long overdue conclusion.

(See my 2022 Summary for information on color coding and rating categories) 03) 10/02/2022 Battle Royale [Unrated Director's Cut] (2000) Japanese with English Subtitles Eight years before the first Hunger Games novel brought juvenile arena slaughter to North America, there was this...