Topic: My Week in Movies

So I have a blog. I don't post there as often as I'd like to (read: not at all for long stretches) but since the beginning of the year I've been trying to post at least once a week, reviewing/wrestling with/eviscerating the movies I watched over the course of that week. If I don't manage to watch enough films in one week I wait until the next week. Only once, in the crunch on a job, did I wind up missing a full month.

For movies we're likely to DIF, you can get a sneak preview of my thoughts. For movies we may never DIF, it's probably the only way you're going to hear my thoughts on them, for those who would be interested in such things. I also welcome recommendations.

My general rule is that recently-released films I try not to give any spoilers, and call them out when I feel I must. Films more than a year or two old I consider past the statute of limitations. Asterisks next to the titles mean that, at the time of the post, the film was available on Instant Netflix.

You can read all the MWIM posts to date here, with this past week's freshly published.

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