The Movies I Don't Review

Why is it that I watch many more movies than I post reviews of here? In an average week, I see about 3 or 4 films, but I might only review one of them. For example, in the last week I’ve watched Orphan, Small Time Crooks, Tower Heist, and Running Scared. I haven’t reviewed any of them yet. Why? Often this is because I might be re-watching films I’ve seen before, or because I’m too busy to write a review. Sometimes, I don’t feel the film is recent enough or relevant enough to modern cinema (classics are a different matter). Most of the time, however, it’s because the film hasn’t made enough of an impact on me. Sometimes I can’t even remember what films I’ve seen in a week, they’ve passed by so incoherently. It’s only if during the film, or considering it afterwards, I find something in particular which impresses or concerns me, that I’ll decide to write a review. This normally has something to do with the director, or the connections of the writer and other creators of the film. It could be something as simple as the style and the ambitiousness, or otherwise, of the director. There are many drafts of reviews languishing on my computer. These are films that seemed to interest me, but I didn’t have enough to write about (despite such short reviews as I do post). With more than 500 reviews in over five years on Stranded Cinema, the number of movies I must’ve seen but not talked about is mind-boggling. So even if my review might be negative, the very fact that I’m writing one must say something about the film itself.