Movie blurbs from 2018

I like to chronicle the movies I’ve seen and the books I’ve read in a year. Books have their own page on the blog (see menu above) so here is my list of movies and small screen viewing from 2018! It kind of makes me look like I watch a lot of TV – something to reflect upon for 2019…

How about you… what movies have stayed with you from 2018?

Movies I saw in the theatre:

• The Shape of Water – interesting and beautiful movie, but sometimes I covered my eyes!
• Game Night – soooooooooo funny! Great adult comedy!
• Ready Player One – I read the book and thought the movie was good fun!
• Faces / Places – foreign film festival movie about a French mural artist and an uncommon friendship (documentary)
• Deadpool 2 – I closed my eyes through this movie… really not my jam
• Book Club – very fun! saw with my book club!
• Oceans 8 – a fun heist movie filled with women!
• Bandstand: The Musical – SOOOOOOO good. Highly recommend!
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – also so good… very poignant and touching and heartbreaking that we are still struggling with the same things he was trying to teach us 50 years ago…
• Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again – what fun!
• The Incredibles 2 – good fun to revisit this super family
• Christopher Robin – I love Pooh and Christopher Robin, so this was nostalgic but who was it made for?
• Crazy Rich Asians – very fun! What a beautifully shot movie!
• Farmer of the Year – widowed MN farmer road-trip movie – not very uplifting
• A Star is Born – my birthday bash ended with this movie – and with all the tears! oh my… very good!
• Bohemian Rhapsody – fun! I love Queen but know very little about them!
• Second Act – I wanted this to be better… it was just ok.
• Mary Poppins Returns – good fun and nostalgia!

Favorites: Game Night, Book Club, Bandstand: The Musical, Crazy Rich Asians, A Star is Born

Netflix movies – new to me and re-watches:

• Expedition Happiness
• Sleeping with Other People
• The Endless Summer
• Kodachrome
• History of the Eagles (documentary)
• Ibiza: Love Drunk
• Coco
• Like Father
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
• Set it Up
• Wild Oats
• The Princess Switch
• The Christmas Chronicles
• Love, Actually
• The Holiday Calendar
• Christmas Wedding Planner
• Angela’s Christmas
• A Christmas Prince
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Dumplin’
• Meet the Parents
• Meet the Fockers
• A Merry Friggin’ Christmas (Amazon)

Netflix Series / Amazon series and Comedy specials:

• The Crown
• The Great British Baking Show
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
• My Next Guest Needs No Introduction
• Grace and Frankie
• Queer Eye
• Steve Martin & Martin Short
• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
• GLOW
• Demetri Martin: Overthinker
• The Good Cop
• Making a Murderer 2
• Salt Fat Acid Heat
• Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj
• John Mulaney – New In Town
• Shameless
• The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
• Mozart in the Jungle