My 2024 10-Part Essay on Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo was published today on Freeline Productions LLC 🙂 I would love to thank both Michael W. Freeman (who runs the site) and my dear readers for having so much faith in me 🙂 Click the link below 🙂

Movie Talk: Vertigo, a 10 Part Personal Essay 

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Unfortunately, I will be on a longer hiatus because I need a new laptop. The one I am using right now I have owned since 2017. In other words, I am using an outdated one that is on it’s last leg. So sorry to let you dear readers down. Hopefully, I can buy a new one soon, but in case you do not hear from me, it is because I need to get a new MacBook 🙂

Though I might return with a blog entry here and there, I have decided to take a hiatus for the summer to rest up. But, I will be back by September 🙂 I would love to wish all of my dear readers a very Happy Summer 🙂

Sorry If i have not been writing as many blog entries in recent weeks. The reason is because I have been working on a 10-part essay for a film that I will be covering as part of a blogathon. I will be posting it on Friday April 25th 🙂

To all of my dear readers: I have now joined both BlueSky (click here) and Letterboxd (click here) 🙂 For readers who are already on there, you will not only get new entries from me on here, but I will also tweet (for a lack of better word) on BlueSky and on Letterboxd, I give star ratings to films I have watched 🙂

I wrote a blog entry like this back in 2023 and 2024 (read here and here) and I shall do it again this year in 2025. Only here, I will focus on why 2024 was a fruitful year for me as a blogger.

1.) While it is true that I took too long of a break writing blog entries ranking the works of my favorite directors, I will be getting back to that anytime soon like I did during this month at this time last year.
2.) I wrote a ten-part essay on my number one favorite film of all-time (read here).
3.) At the same time, I discovered new bloggers and became a regular visitor to their respective sites.
4.) I actually composed a new Happy Birthday blog entry regarding an underrated actress (read here).
5.) I went to my beloved Music Box Theatre not once, not twice, but three times. On that third time, I got to watch a 70mm print of my number one favorite film of all-time on a big screen. I wrote about the experience back in September (read here).
6.) In October, I not only composed my annual Top 10 Favorite Horror Films of All-Time, but I also managed to compose one consisting of my Top 100 Favorite Horror Films of All-Time.
7.) In November, I posted a blog entry consisting of my Top 10 Favorite Film Noirs of All-Time.
8.) In December, I posted three blog entries. Though to be fair, the last one is composed at that time every year (read here and here).
9.) All of the above blog entries garnered positive replies from my dear readers 🙂

Btw, I will be posting a film essay on January 28 as part of a blog-a-thon by RealWeegieMidget (read here and here).

A shout out to fellow visitor Steve (check out his youtube channel here). If you are reading this Steve, you will be happy to know that I finally made it through the longer version of the 1986 crime drama Blood Ties and I loved that version of the film too.

Before I conclude this blog entry, two questions for all of my dear readers below:

1.) What are your accomplishments of 2024?
2.) If the answer is none (and do not feel bad If it is), what would you like to accomplish in 2024?

I almost forgot, as a blogger, I would like to offer my sincerest condolences to the victims of the recent truck attack that happened in New Orleans a day ago.

Hello all of my dear readers, you are all probably wondering where I have been since early June? Well I just wanted to take a break from blogging for a while for some much deserved relaxation 🙂 I will try to blog some more before Labor Day, but I will undoubtedly be back blogging regularly after that aforementioned holiday 🙂

For anybody familiar who comes on this site, last year around this time, I posted a blog entry entitled 5 Goals I Hope to Accomplish in 2023 (click here). In it, I listed what I hoped to accomplish for that year. So have I succeeded? Let us look at the result below:

1. Write more reviews on the poliziotteschi films that Steve (a regular visitor of this site) has recommended to me (I have accomplished the task of watching these gems).
   
   Goal Mostly Met. Steve (click here to view his youtube channel) will be more than thrilled to hear that I have seen just about every poliziotteschi film that he has recommended to me. What I have not achieved yet is writing the reviews of them. Nevertheless, I will call this a step in the right direction.
   
2. Resume my Moviedrome Monday entries (I only have two more seasons to cover).
   
   Goal Unfulfilled. Though I do not live in the UK where the show was broadcasted, I mostly got information about the episodes from the Internet, which is also where I find various old intros to the films being shown and offer my take on them. Take note, that not every intro is available online. Click here to read the first one I ever offered commentary on.
   
3. Write more blog entries.
   
   Goal 50% Met. Read number 4.
   
4. To start on writing a series of blog entries regarding the rankings of great films directed by my favorite directors.
   
   Goal 50% Met. Mid-2023 is when I started doing blog entries regarding how I rank all the great films of my favorite directors. It is true that I have not even finished the A last names yet, but once again, a step in the right direction.
   
5. Comment more on the blog entries of my fellow readers (i.e. Paul S, Pete etc.).
   
   Goal 50% Met. I have catched as many of their posts as I have missed them. Either way, I would like to leave more replies on the sites of bloggers I have regularly visited in the past. While reading Paul S Pfeiffer Films and Meg Movies site (click here), I was introduced to a new blogger by the name of Michael and his site entitled The Starfire Lounge (click here) is every bit as fantastic as all the other bloggers I frequent.

So let’s see, I have fulfilled one 2023 goal and accomplished 50 percent of three others and missed only one. Not bad, but I still hope to do better this year, which is 2024 🙂

Happy 2023 to all of my dear readers 🙂 Yes, I know I have not been posting as frequently as I would like, but my schedule has been chock full lately 😦 Nevertheless, I do hope to post more as the year progresses 🙂 Here, below are just 5 of those goals 🙂

1. Write more reviews on the poliziotteschi films that Steve (a regular visitor of this site) has recommended to me (I have accomplished the task of watching these gems).
2. Resume my Moviedrome Monday entries (I only have two more seasons to cover).
3. Write more blog entries.
4. To start on writing a series of blog entries regarding the rankings of great films directed by my favorite directors.
5. Comment more on the blog entries of my fellow readers (i.e. Paul S, Pete etc.).

Once again, I hope to accomplish all of these goals as the year goes by and a huge thanks to all of my dear readers who comment on here 🙂

Nevertheless, I will be back next Sunday with a new Moviedrome Monday blog entry 🙂