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Usually, at the end of these recap articles, I write something like “I wrote longer reviews for each movie I watched on my Letterboxd account” as I’m not writing about them here. I’m going to stop doing that as, starting September 1st, I’ll use Letterboxd only to keep track of my viewing. I grew tired of writing those reviews and choosing a rating.

I’ve been using Letterboxd for a decade now. Last year, at the same time I think, I decided to stop because I had become too self-conscious of my viewing habits, in a way. Like, I felt forced to watch a 1940s movie because I hadn’t done that for some time. I like 1980s-90s movies, but I always try to balance with… you know, some stupid shit. Anyway, I came back and started to write reviews for everything as I thought it would be a good complement for this blog, but I think I should write more here instead.

I doubt that I’ll have the time to do that immediately as my life is a tad out of order lately, but it’s my ambition. For now, let’s take a look back at my media consumption of August 2024!

July ended with a heat wave, but even without that, I was already too tired. I’m taking some days off to rest, so I’m mostly in my bed in a comatose state. Not a lot of energy. Despite that, I still find it in me to read a bit, not too much this month, and to watch a few movies, but less than the previous months too.

I’m watching episodes of The X-Files though, they are long enough for me to stay focused and I know them well, so I can doze off without losing much. Anyway, I hope to have more energy in me in August.

Already at the end of the first half of the year, time flows quickly. June 2024 will not be one of the highlights of the year I think. I didn’t watch enough good movies and my readings were not that memorable. There were good things though.

I have the feeling that it was a month of endings as I concluded my rewatch of Batman: TAS, the first season of The X-Files, and the Alien movies, among other things. I tried new things on the blog, but not everything turned out as I would have liked. Anyway, we are here for a little recap, so let’s go do some recapping.

What a weird month this May 2024 was. I barely noticed it started that it ended. When I add everything that happened during the last 31 days, the result is not good for me, except maybe for what I watch and read.

Not in the recap, but I’m going to end the second season of Batman: The Animated Series soon and I started to rewatch once again The X-Files. It’s something I do, despite its failings, this show is probably my favorite at that point–and also Farscape and the original run of Futurama. I’ll probably revisit all of them one day or another, as I do it from time to time.

April came and went before I realized it. I just launched an Instagram account. I’m not good at social medias, but I’m working on it. Also, I still managed to keep up with Road to the Stars project, even if the goal was to watch movies to fill the gaps in my classic movie knowledge and I don’t really do that. I’ll try to change that soon.

I always plan to do something and, when the planning is complete and it’s time to start, I have a hard time putting my mind to it. Anyway, for now, let’s take a look back at what I watched and read this month.

I started by putting my DVD of Ravenous (1999) on. A peculiar movie, but also a great one with Robert Carlisle and Guy Pearce in a cannibalistic struggle. The score was very good too.

I started the month with a new pair of prescription glasses and this was a tiring experience with a few headaches. Not a good start. It considerably slowed down my readings and everything else. I probably should have gone sooner to the optometrist. Anyway, let’s recap this month.

We begin with Special Delivery (2023), a fun but predictable Korean movie at the crossroads between The Transporter and The Man From Nowhere, starring Park So-dam.

I continued watching the Female Prisoner Scorpion series with the third movie, Beast Stable (1973). Less trippy than the previous one, but still unconventional in the good sense. Also, Meiko Kaji was just badass, as always.

This January, I started to write again on my Letterboxd account. As a result, doing this blog post felt a bit redundant. I think I'll not doing it again soon.…