Breadline Optimists: A Film Podcast

This year I saw over 140 2021 features and 31 films at the cinema.  I make a list every year of the best and worst releases of the year.  Recently, I somehow erased all but last year's list, so here goes nothing.   January: Outdoor Screenings Films Seen in a Theater: MLK/FBI The beginning of  the year offered no decent mainstream releases and no interesting low rent ones. The art theater at the time was only doing outside screenings, very well handled outdoor screenings; they had patio heaters; they had popcorn and a drink waiting at my seat. The only issues with the outdoor screenings are bugs and especially traffic noise; it really takes you out of the film especially if the flick is only mildly diverting.   A film that might have been a fun outdoor screening (in a mondo sort of way)  Grizzly II , a film I bought sight unseen. It had a star-studded cast (George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen each for about 30 seconds), and the origin...

  Movies I saw in a Theater Pre-Pandemic The Grudge,  Howls Moving Castle, Weathering With You, Firecracker, Citizen K, Color Outside Space, Oscar Nominated Short Cartoons, Birds of Prey, Fantasy Island, Sonic the Hedgehog, Hellhole, Impractical Jokers the Movie, Cats, Invisible Man, The Boy II Movies I saw at the Drive In Days of Thunder, The Sandlot, Breakfast at Tiffany's, True Grit, Amityville Horror (2005), The Great Outdoors Movies I saw after March because we waited until right before the start time and the theater was completely empty Ten Minutes to Midnight, BTS Break the Silence, The Call I also rented a theater to screen A Rainy Day in New York with half a dozen friends. It came out worldwide last year so is not on my list. I have seen all of Woody's pictures in a theater since I was  a kid. The film got a warm reception even from a few of the folks who had never seen one of his films.  I usually see 52 films a year in theaters. But this was not an option....