Favorite Movies I watched in May

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It’s June while I’m writing this and I have been to the movie theater so many times. The MOVIES ARE BACK BABY.

With that being said my highest rated movies are all 4.5/5 stars this month. I was able to watch 26 movies in May which felt great.

High Noon (1952): Western Thriller is right. This was such a good watch. I really felt the passing of the time in the town and the increasing desperation of the Marshall as his town basically leaves him high and dry. Riveting.

Hokum (2026): A movie theater watch with some new movie friends! This was such a creepy vibe. I really appreciate how grounded in realism this was with just a touch of folklore horror. Adam Scott in elevators, who’d have thought it would be such a great thing.

How to Be Alone (2019): A short film with my Scream Queen Maika Monroe. A very good short watch with enough creepy vibes to make it really off putting but not too offputting.

My Blueberry Nights (2007): We had to really get going on watching some Wong Kar Wai because a bunch of his stuff we don’t own was leaving the Criterion Channel and we had to get it done. I’m so glad we started our Wong Kar journey. Apparently My Blueberry nights is one of his most least liked films and I loved it and then I loved the next one and I think I’m probably going to keep loving them all. This one was fun to start with because it was an English Speaking cast and it was such a sweet love story. I could have done without Natalie Portman’s character plot but on the whole, perfect.

The Hand (2004): Another Wong Kar Wai after we watched this one I asked my partner if they were all going to be melancholy and sad and he was like, I’m pretty sure that’s what the director is known for. So I have a bunch more of that to look forward to!

I haven’t’ been doing the special shout out to the worst film of the month (it felt bad sometimes because I know that people work hard on films) but the one I watched was so egregiously bad that even a Blank Check Commentary Podcast couldn’t save it and that was The Love Guru (2008). I gave that bitch half a star and it should thank me.