In the last couple of weeks, my spare time has been absorbed by different tasks and activities, and that’s why this roundup of my weekly film explorations comes a bit late. I’m confident you found a way to go on with your life anyway!

I don’t have a lot to report this week. The city started getting emptier, but for me this was just a normal working week, so let’s move directly to the films I’ve watched.

My maternal grandfather was a carpenter. Every time I visited his atelier, welcomed by the sweet smell of sawdust, I was amazed by all his tools, from the huge and very dangerous table saws to the many different types of hammers, screwdrivers, etcetera.
Similarly, I remember looking at my father’s three-level portable toolbox and wondering about its several variations on pliers and wrenches and the many drill bits for wood and metal.
It would be logical to think that I have followed one path or the other, and that, as an adult, I have developed a fervent DIY passion and own lots of different tools. That’s not the case.

Since it’s July and the Summer holidays will come much later, I took a week off to decompress a bit from work. I had to honour a couple of non-work commitments, but I also managed to squeeze in a few days in London (more on those, probably, later). The intake of films was quite steady anyway…

Just a quick post to document two horror-related connections I came across last week.

These past weeks I have often used the guidance of Scott Derrickson’s top 100 horror list to choose my cinematic entertainment. At this point, the films included in it that I haven’t watched yet belong to one of these three categories - films that I just can’t find on streaming, classic movies from the ’60s and earlier (which - with exceptions - I don’t find very interesting), and films that are notoriously difficult to watch (which require the right mood).