Story and You

2015 has been a crazy year. 2013 was the first year in which I kept a log of all of the new-to-me films I watched, and that year I logged 50. In 2014, I logged 211. This year, my count was 519. I learned so much about film this year-I watched my first Tarantino, first Bergman, first Kubrick, first James Bond. Throughout 2014, as I started immersing myself in film forums and blogs and websites, I felt like I knew so little-I had an enormous mental list I "lovingly" referred to as "films everyone has seen except me". Now, as we head into 2016, that feeling is finally gone. I still haven't seen everything, of course, but I've reached a place where I feel like I fit into this crazy world of cinema enthusiasts, and maybe I even have my own things to contribute. So I would say it has been a pretty good year. Read on to see my year-long journey in more detail!

  Welcome to December (sort of)!   November was a crazy month for me, lots of schoolwork and exams (and December is following that trend, which is why this post is so late). My movie watching was considerably stilted for the first part of the month, but that was ok, because it gave me the break I needed and I returned really exited about films again. I didn't feel like this was an amazing month for movies, but as I look back I actually found a lot of new favorites, it was tough narrowing down my selections to highlight in this post. I hope November was great for you all, and that you had a good Thanksgiving!

Happy Halloween!! October didn't quite work out the way I expected. I wanted to work through my backlog of unseen horror films, but a lot of non-horror films were expiring off of Shomi this month so I had to get to those first, and combined with watching through American Horror Story, I only got in a couple of scary movies. And overall, I was once again disappointed with the films I saw this month. I was feeling pretty burned out on films and even the ones I knew were good on a technical level, well, I just couldn't get into them. But I couldn't really give myself a break because so many films I wanted to see were expiring. So, I hope you had a happy Halloween, and keep reading to see how my October went.

I wasn't really sure how to start this blog, and I finally decided, why not with a recap? It's a little late in the month for one, but oh well. Here goes!