Dobes Zone

       2022 was another bizarre year with a lot of bad news but I did watch nearly 300 films and short films.  I wanted to write a bit about my favorite new (to me) watches. It was a tough choice because I watched so many films that were fun, beautiful, affecting, and exciting. I tried to pick things that surprised me and which I kept thinking about.      I'm notoriously bad at watching new movies the year they actually release- especially since I don't go to theaters much anymore, so a lot of these will be older films. Like last year, I will also be including 10 of the films at the end that were total stinkers, but truth be told, I didn't watch a ton of films that I outright hated.    Cabaret scene from Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet       In no particular order, here are the hits! 1) On the Silver Globe (1988) Many folks have only seen Zulawski's Possession (an incredible film) but it's been nice seeing a little more love for On the Silver Globe, which is one

 It's been a busy October and I'm realizing that I have not shared anything to my blog in a while. At a friend's suggestion, I'm cross-posting some of my letterboxd reviews of some of my favorite new watches as well as rewatches from this month. I watched in total, 42 feature length films and 5 short films , some on my own, some in streams I hosted or in streams hosted by others. Everything I watched this month was horror or a thriller dealing with horror themes.   Here's a couple of my favorite new watches from this month. It's not all of them, but these felt like the reviews most worth sharing.   Eyes of Fire (1983) A lovely dark fairy tale set in pre-revolutionary war colonial America. An arrogant preacher has seduced a married woman and when the townsfolk try to have him hanged for it, he and his followers set out into the woods to start a new settlement- which they are wholly unprepared for. Also to be fair, hanging a guy for witchcraft and devilry bec