It’s been too long since I wrote up and update post. I thought it was about time. Especially when you consider that we’ve passed the midway point of the year, and that’s usually when there’s some overhauling done around here.

First, since an update around this time last year I no longer conglomerate film reviews. Therefore reviews are usually either categorized as Reviews (full-length; 400 words or more) or Mini-Reviews (Under 400 words).

You may see more instances of multiple posts in a day as I have now scheduled almost all the remaining backlog of reviews that have not gotten their due.

This should allow me to dedicate the time needed to creating new content and keeping up on films and reviews.

This includes my next blogathon contributions, which as of right now are on Ingrid Bergman, William A. Wellman and Film Books.

Having recently compiled June’s BAM Award considerations the compiling of offline master lists has begun. It seems like contenders are shaping up well.

New and older posts will be posted more frequently on Twitter, film viewings can be accompanied on Letterboxd. You can also accompany the site on Facebook or subscribe via email.

There will likely be more news soon so check back soon and enjoy!

Hello all,

This is just a quick update to indicate that although December 24th has come and gone the BAM Shortlists will arrive shortly. They were nearly done (Or so I thought), and then I realized I had to reconcile a bookkeeping SNAFU. I will continue to work towards getting the shortlists out today (12/25), tomorrow (12/26) at the latest.

Thank you.

Bernardo Villela, The Movie Rat

P.S. This first trimming down should allow for the nominees to be released on the 2nd and the winners announced on the 9th. In the meantime go here to view previous awards.

This is mainly a post to announce that though I have yet to post anything new in relation to it, 61 Days of Halloween is still very much a thing! Look for new material soon.

You may have noticed that after my obligatory post for the BAM Awards this month, I went with Mini-Reviews of two horror films (Red State and Bereavement).

As you await new posts you can visit the theme’s page for links to prior viewings.

OK, so here’s what’s happening on The Movie Rat as of the last update, and some things that will be happening from here on in.

The Short Film Saturday post on this site has been consistently delivered and will continue to be for quite some time to come. You can find previous selections here.

BAM Considerations posts have been added to on a monthly basis for May and June.

If you navigate the menu bar you will see new drop downs added since the last update.

Tarzan Thursday may or may not be winding down, but I have added new entries there and you can find all of them here.

I have contributed to a few more blogathons The Billy Wilder Blogathon and the Accidentally Hilarious blogathon.

Created a new feature I hope to follow-up on called Food on Film, and one I’ve already posted in twice called Duh about famous relations one featuring the Derns and another the Gleesons.

I shamelessly plugged a trio of short stories I am releasing on Kindle.

Lastly, is that having ended the Mini-Review Round-Up I am further burying many films worthy of individual attention. Therefore, over time the films that were included in those posts will be featured in newly-published individual posts. In some cases there will be new additional quotes or materials added, but mostly it will just be an individual short post, a Mini-Review (such as this one). This will mean posts every day for sure, and it will allow me to focus on posts that need the time and not scrambling to create new content, or worse, missing days.

Thanks for stopping by, and y’all come back now y’hear!

Today I finally returned to creating a new page for the menu bar. It was something I intended to do a while ago, but only got to now. Anyway, go here to find links to all the blogathon posts I’ve contributed so far.

So what has been going on then?

Posts have been a bit more infrequent but I’ve been working to rectify that to an extent. There has, however, been work going on behind the scenes and when I get a string of days scheduled it should be possible to start filling in the schedule on a more consistent basis.

A SNAFU has slowed down the Roku phase of By Any Means Necessary, but it most definitely is a theme that will continue.

One thing I have been able to make great progress in, thanks to Apple TV, has been the scheduling of Short Film Saturday. There shouldn’t be a missed one of those for quite some time. You can look up past films here.

There should be more reviews coming down the pike as things have been viewed. In the meantime, if you need you play catch-up you can go here.

Running posts that have been lacking in updates like Films Viewed and Favorite Older Films and My Radar will shortly be updated or revamped.

And I did participate in a blogathon last month.

Until the next update and/or post. Thanks for stopping by and for reading.