Happy August everyone! I hope everyone has had a great first week of this eighth month of 2016. For this post though, I’d like to reminisce on times gone by… that is, July 2016. July was a pretty awesome month here at Film Grimoire as Rob of Movierob and I hosted A Timely Blogathon, celebrating shorter films. Thanks again to everyone who participated! Apart from that, here’s a selection of some of the posts I loved reading during July.

First off, Jay of Assholes Watching Movies (definitely not an asshole) reviewed a film I absolutely cannot wait to see – Swiss Army Man (2016). An excellent review which served to exacerbate my personal hype for the film. Courtney of NOLA Film Vibes also reviewed the film, describing it as “an amazing take on life, loneliness and personal identity”. I can’t wait.

Resident poet Cindy of cindybruchman.com got to travel around Greece during July, and I loved her travel posts which had some lovely photography. I particularly loved her post on the magical island of Santorini, one of my favourite places in the entire world. Posts like this are such an inspiration to get out and travel more!

What’s in the box!? Brad of Hard Ticket to Home Video explores the iconic box scene from David Fincher’s Seven (1995) in their regular Shake the Scene series. Within the context of pretty shitty social/political events that occurred during July, this post turns to the wisdom of Morgan Freeman to look towards the future.

I love enjoying films, but to a certain extent I also really love hating certain films (cough). Table9Mutant of Cinema Parrot Disco compiled a list of her top ten most hated films since starting her blog in November 2012 – which is no mean feat since she would have reviewed bazillions. Perhaps this post could act as a list of films to avoid. Or a list of films to hate-watch. Either way, good fun!

I reviewed a certain amazing film called Zardoz (1974) back in the day, but last month I had the opportunity to read Roderick’s review at Wonders in the Dark – probably one of the best reviews I’ve read on this beautiful mess of a film. Go and read it now!

And lastly, this very interesting post over at Movie Morlocks documents an interesting aspect of film history: whatever happened to the gargantuan Egyptian film sets built for Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1925)? The post contains an interesting interview about the archaeological excavations that took place in order to find an answer, and a documentary that was in the process of being filmed in order to share the archaeological findings with the world.

Bit of a short post this month. A short one but a good one. What did you enjoy during the month of July? Feel free to share below!