Christmas may be over, but it's not too late to sneak in a couple more Christmas movies! Back in December, I wrote another essay for one of my favorite movie blogs, Cinema Sugar . I forgot to mention it here on Living Mostly Vintage, but better late than never! Hope you enjoy - and while you're there, make sure to check out all the fantastic content Cinema Sugar has to offer. Click here to read my essay about Millions (2004)!

Happy New Year! I always look forward to my Letterboxd Wrapped stats every year. But I have the poor-man’s version of Letterboxd, which means I only get certain stats in my yearly “Wrapped.” So I thought I’d DIY my own little “year in review!” According to Letterboxd, I logged 78 new films , which is a lot for me considering that just a handful of years ago, I felt like I was just watching the same things over and over. And I enjoyed many of those 78 - in fact, I gave 25 of t

I decided that in 2026, I'm going to implement a new weekly routine for myself: I’m going to cook a nice dinner, and settle in with a movie. No, that doesn’t sound like anything super exciting or different. But my goal is to make it feel special, simply by being intentional about it. It's fun to casually pop on a movie, but it's also fun to make a night of it! I haven’t decided on the menus yet, but here are the movies I already have lined up for the new year: Father of the B

Pierre Brochant is a well-to-do publisher with a beautiful wife, a fancy apartment, and a great group of friends. Indeed, he lives a lovely little life. One of his many pleasures are the weekly dinners he and his bourgeois friends have organized. And - how kind of them! - they each bring a different special guest along to these Wednesday gatherings. Lots of fun for everyone, right? Well, I should mention that their special guests are part of a game these friends play. The rul