LIGHTING STRIKES SEVEN TIMES by Phil Congleton
As we continue this monthly format for Phil Meets The Movies 2023 on Digging Star Wars, I want to explain more about each month's themes or threads. As the year goes on, I want to explore, from top to bottom, from start to the present, genre to sub-genre, as many areas of the film industry as we can. I will pick a New movie, an Old movie, a Best movie, a Least movie (aka: a bad movie), and a film I rated an E for Effort (I'll explain this later). Every blog article has a common theme or thread for the month, and the films have had certain connections or similarities, which helps explain why they were picked for that particular month. I pick the theme based on two things. First off, part of the theme comes from the New movie choice I picked for the month. The other part of the theme comes from the Best movie pick for the month. The Best (Great) movie pick of the month comes from our Film366 film list, which is a list, that has a film recommendation for every day of the year (i
