Coming Soon: 11/01/10 - 11/07/10

NOTE: The review for "Halloween" IS UP and has been pushed down due to this post. If you want to read it, please scroll down. Thank you!

Well Halloween 2010 is in the books and despite some not so favorable ratings, I still had a great time vegging out all day and watching some horror flicks. Here's what's on tap for November, and more specifically this coming week.

HITCHCOCKTOBER FEST! WILL CONCLUDE...I PROMISE
I know, I know...I should've had "Hitchcocktober Fest!" finished in October, but it was quite beyond my control. Here's what's left:

*Psycho (1960) - Keeps flickering off and on between "short wait" and "available now" on Netflix
*The Birds (1963) - see Psycho's note.
*Marnie (1964) - Have it on my desk right now, from Netflix. It WILL BE the next movie I watch.
*Frenzy (1972)

Here's what else I have planned for the upcoming week:

*Toy Story (1995 - John Lasseter) - "Toy Story 3" comes out Tuesday and I want to see it...but first, I might as well rewatch the original for the "1001" book.
*L.A. Confidential (1997 - Curtis Hanson) - My wife will be watching it really soon...I'll be joining her.
*Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942 - Michael Curtiz) - I went on a serious Jimmy Cagney kick last month and bought a bunch of his movies for cheap off of Amazon...this was one of them.
*White Heat (1949 - Raoul Walsh) - See above note.
*There Will Be Blood (2007 - Paul Thomas Anderson) - I REALLY need to watch a movie from the 2000s, as I've only watched two in 2 months. Also, I've been on a big Daniel Day-Lewis kick as of late.
*The Thing (1982 - John Carpenter) - Just decided on this one after watching "Halloween"...I'm super high on Carpenter right now.
*If... (1968 - Lindsay Anderson) - This one's for you Ray

I seriously doubt that I'll be watching all of that stuff this week, but we'll see how much we can get done. My main goal for November is to watch 22 movies, so that I will have 201 watched, 800 to go and thus make my "TOP 40...SO FAR" list. I don't think I'll have any problem doing that.

Check back in a few days and I'll be putting up an "October Recap" post, which will recap all of the movies I watched in October (the ones in and out of the "1001" book) and include revised ratings.

November 1, 2010 3:26am