EVERY MOVIE (AND TV SHOW) I WATCHED IN APRIL 2023

I maintain a daily record of every movie & TV show I watch and every book I read. I am the sort of viewer who gets into moods for making his own movie marathons. I call them “kicks”, mostly successive nights of movies that have some element in common (an actor, a director, a genre, a theme). Looking back at my list, April brought several. See if you can pick them out. 

I bolded my favorites, titles you should write to see or read. 

(Movies: capitalized, TV shows: lower case. Books/short stories: lower case in quotes w/author’s last name -- listed the day the book was completed). 

4/1 THE 39 STEPS 

4/2 DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES 

4/3 SABOTAGE (1936), Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers 

4/4 BABY HUEY’S GREAT EASTER ADVENTURE, Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers, “The Dain Curse” (Hammett) 

4/5 THE LADY VANISHES (1938), SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, The Mandalorian 

4/6 ATRAGON 

4/7 ROADGAMES, BMX BANDITS 

4/8 RODAN, THE GETTING OF WISDOM, “Nevada Gas” (Chandler) 

4/9 WRONGFULLY ACCUSED, GODZILLA (1954) 

4/10 GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN, THE X FROM OUTER SPACE, “The Writer As Detective Hero” (Macdonald) 

4/11 THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS 

4/12 THE HARVEY GIRLS, BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM, BATMAN & MR. FREEZE: SUBZERO, The Mandalorian 

4/13 LAND OF THE PHARAOHS, CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY 

4/14 HARPER, THE DROWNING POOL

4/15 MR. MAGOO, CARAVAN OF COURAGE: AN EWOK ADVENTURE 

4/16 PAT AND MIKE, FRANKENSTEIN VS. BARAGON, EASTER PARADE 

4/17 CARAVAN OF COURAGE: AN EWOK ADVENTURE, “I’ll Be Waiting” (Chandler) 

4/18 THE SEA OF GRASS, SUMMERTIME 

4/19 ON GOLDEN POND, The Mandalorian 

4/20 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, ADAM’S RIB

4/21 FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD

4/22 THE AFRICAN QUEEN, WITHOUT LOVE, “C is for Corpse” (Grafton) 

4/23 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958), SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH 

4/24 NOTORIOUS (1946) 

4/25 SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II, THE WIZARD OF OZ

4/26 FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT 

4/27 MARNIE, MONKEY BUSINESSMEN (short), “D is for Deadbeat” (Grafton) 

4/28 THE BIRDS, Secrets of the Elephants, Silver Surfer

4/29 THE WINGS OF EAGLES, BRANNIGAN, Secrets of the Elephants, Silver Surfer 

4/30 HONDO, Silver Surfer, Secrets of the Elephants 

-T.Z.