92/2662. Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
A newspaper reporter helps police capture a gangster running a crooked gambling den in international waters. It's a relatively shallow and straightforward gangster drama, but sometimes that's what you're in the mood for.

93/2663. The Sheep Detectives (2026)
I loved this. I mean, really loved it. The elevator pitch "Babe meets Knives Out" accurately describes it, but the characters really are all a delight to spend time with. Highly recommended (although Dad thought it was too cutsey, so you have been warned).

94/2664. Beat the Devil (1953)
Bogart plays one of a several anti-hero (or downright evil) opportunists planning to make a fortune in African uranium in this adventure story. This qualifies as a "dark comedy" by modern standards, though I would prefer the more honest descriptor "ironically subversive." Personally, I find "dark comedies" are almost always traditional tragedies which the filmmaker intends audience to laugh at instead of sympathize with, and I don't think that ever applies to Bogey.

96/2666. Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Speaking of ironically subversive: this western is almost a direct attack on the philosophy of The Searchers. The title is actually a literal description of the seductive power of the killing machine that turns men into animals. IMDB labels this a "classical western," but I think it's every bit as revisionist as the greatest western ever made: Eastwood's The Unforgiven.

97/2667. Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story (2026)
A documentary about the charming host of a NYC public access television show. Smut or infotainment? You decide!

More to come.

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