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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

My Movie Love Letter 2017

That’s a bit of an exaggeration.  I haven’t seen as many movies in the theatre as in years past, but every time I do there’s something I love… Here is a list of films I’ve seen in chronological order:

  1. Moana – love the Lin Manuel Miranda musical score!
  2. LaLaLand – love the music and dancing! also love the Oscar blooper where it was briefly named Best Picture!
  3. Rogue One: Star Wars – not too memorable… hmmm
  4. Hidden Figures – loved that I saw this on Martin Luther King Day with a teen girl who loves math!
  5. Singing in the Rain – love that this was brought back onto the big screen for a few showings in 2017!
  6. Dous Iozurri (Two Lottery Tickets) – love that the Wehrenberg has a foreign film festival every year – cute pic about losing winning lottery tickets!
  7. Gifted – love movie night with the girls!
  8. Wonder Woman – love the girl power in this pic!
  9. The Big Sick – love this story based on his true life – heart wrenching at times but so good!
  10. The Glass Castle – loved seeing this with social worker friends and discussing the differences between the book and the movie!
  11. Victoria & Abdul – love this pic about the curmudgeonly Queen Victoria! Makes me want to know more!
  12. Bad Mom’s Christmas – again, love movie nights with the girls! Big Laughs!
  13. Wonder – loved the sweetness of this movie!
  14. Lady Bird – loved everything about this movie – great characters!
  15. Murder on the Orient Express – loved the beauty and the actors in this film.
  16. Star Wars: The Last Jedi – loved seeing Carrie Fischer again… good stuff.
  17. Pitch Perfect 3 – love a movie with singing (although it really pales to the first)
  18. The Greatest Showman – absolutely loved this and hope to see it again!
  19. Ferdinand – love the story and loved taking the girls!
  20. Jumanji – love the laughs and the premise – but had to look through my hands a few times!  I’m a wimp!

On Netflix I have watched a bunch of Christmas cheer, a few action flicks, and the Thanksgiving episodes of Friends. Some series I have loved…

  1. Master of None – love the feel to season 2!
  2. Last Chance U – love the reality of this!
  3. Grace & Frankie – love those two
  4. The Great British Baking Show – love watching those Brits make things I’ve never heard of!
  5. The Good Place – caught up so I could watch season 2 – which is sooo weird!

On Amazon Prime we LOVED The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – highly recommend!

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