Pros Fic Index

Not a huge amount of movies, but sort of rounded out with some documentaries. It did get better as the months went by.

MOVIES WATCHED IN APRIL

Apr 26-29 - Beatles Anthology (2025)
The Beatles, with the 4 members telling their story.
Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

It appears to be an updated version of the 1995 anthology, but not much more than I already knew. Still, it was nice seeing the lads again.


MOVIES WATCHED IN MAY

May 13 - Man On the Run (2025)
An intimate portrait of Paul McCartney's trajectory after The Beatles, as he and his wife Linda form Wings.
Director: Morgan Neville
Stars: Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon

Not as interesting as the Beatles Anthology, though I did learn much more from this documentary. It pretty much comes to an end at Linda’s death. Worth watching.



May 20 - Good Omens 3 (2026)
Aziraphale, now Supreme Archangel, seeks Crowley's help as plans for the Second Coming take a surprising yet dangerous turn.
Stars: David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Derek Jacobi

Truly excellent end to a great series. Though I would have loved it if they had done an entire season, they managed to bring it all together with the one episode. I’ll truly miss Aziraphale and Crowley.



May 24 - The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.
Director:Rob Bowman
Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau, Mitch Pileggi, Blythe Danner

Set between the 4th and 5th season of the series, it answers some questions but creates more. Worth watching, though best if you’ve watched the series. Yet I think it could be watched as a stand-alone.


MOVIES WATCHED IN JUNE

Jun 6 - Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026)
Through unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.
Director: Olivia Newman
Stars: Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Colm Meaney

I loved this. Especially after watching My Octopus Teacher, it was wonderful seeing a movie where an octopus is one of the main characters. Highly recommended.



Jun 10 - Agora (2009)
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac

Not a great deal is known about Hypatia, so there’s a lot added. But I think they did a pretty good job bringing the woman to life. One thing is clear, Christians haven’t changed much, still demanding that everyone believe the same things that they do.



Jun 12 - American Experience: The Donner Party (1992)
Documentary exploring the struggles of The Donner Party, a group of American pioneers and their two Indigenous guides who became stranded in the Sierras during a horrible winter.
Director: Ric Burns
Stars: David McCullough, J.D. Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Eli Wallach

I actually learned quite a bit from this documentary. I’ve watched other films about the Donner party, but this one delved more into the lives and personalities of the people involved.


Jun 26 - The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Director: Chris Carter
Stars: David Duchovny,Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly, Mitch Pileggi

Set between the 9th and 10th seasons of the series. Like the series, the movie sort of goes off the rails. It doesn’t add much to the series’ story, so mainly worth watching for little that it does. And at this point things were getting odd between Mulder and Scully.

Twenty-one days.

In a world ravaged by fire and descending into madness, Cavalo has been given an ultimatum by the dark man known as Patrick: return Lucas to him and the cannibalistic Dead Rabbits, or the town of Cottonwood and its inhabitants will be destroyed. But Lucas has a secret embedded into his skin that promises to forever alter the shape of things to come—a secret that Cavalo must decide if it’s worth dying over, even as he wrestles with his own growing attraction to the muted psychopath.

Twenty-one days.

Cavalo has twenty-one days to prepare for war. Twenty-one days to hold what is left of his shredded sanity together. Twenty-one days to convince the people of Cottonwood to rise up and fight back. Twenty-one days to unravel the meaning behind the marks that cover Lucas. A meaning that leads to a single word and a place of unimaginable power: Dworshak.

I enjoyed getting back to Cavalo and his cohorts; I liked that some of the people from Cottonwood move center stage. But most of all I loved that SIRS and Bad Dog are back. In many ways they show humanity more than the humans do.

Unfortunately, there’s a storm coming in the shape of the man known as Patrick and his followers. They are the worst of the worst, killing for the joy of it, and then eating their prey. Other towns have been destroyed by them and now Cottonwood is in their sites.

It really is a race against time. The people of Cottonwood don’t totally trust Cavalo, and certainly don’t trust Lucas, who they suspect could be Patrick’s spy. But no one is totally clean. Well, except Bad Dog, who never loses his faith in Cavalo.

It’s a dark tale. But there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.




( Mount TBR 2026 Book Links 1-30 )

31. The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser
32. Service Model (Service Model 1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
33. Crisped + Sere (Immemorial Year 2) by T.J. Klune




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