Animation… Movie #24 2021: The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) 30 Jan 202122 Jan 2021 Two Studio Ghibli movies in one month? What a treat! Perhaps slightly less lauded than Princess Mononoke is The Secret World of Arrietty, which is also known as simply Arrietty…
Action… Movie #17 2021: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 23 Jan 202116 Jan 2021 A week later, I completed the Indiana Jones trilogy! (No, I'm still not acknowledging the fourth movie. That may change, but I wouldn't hold your breath.) Thanks for being patient.…
Drama… Movie #12 2021: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) 18 Jan 202112 Jan 2021 The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society. Try saying that ten times fast. Not to worry though, that’s actually good reason behind that mouthful of a film title. (I…
Action… Movie #10 2021: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 16 Jan 202112 Jan 2021 Surprise! I went back-to-back Indiana Jones on you. Although, I am yet to see The Last Crusade, so bear with me on that one... As with Raiders of the Lost…
Animation… Movie #4 2021: Brave (2012) 10 Jan 20215 Jan 2021 Onto the second animated 'first watch' of 2021. It feels as though there's no better time to start catching up on animated films I may have missed along the way,…
Animation… Movie #365 2020: Soul (2020) 30 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 Huzzah! This is officially the 365th 'First Watch' of the year. That means I've watched one movie that I've never seen before for each day in 2020. How did I…
christmas… Movie #364 2020: Noelle (2019) 30 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 Are we still watching Christmas films? I don't see why not. We're in that weird hangover period between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve, so why not just drag out…
Action… Movie #361 2020: Now You See Me (2013) 27 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 I suppose you could label this movie 'Films to Watch Over Christmas With Your Teenage Kids'. It's not 'childish' enough for them to not want to watch it, and it's…
christmas… Movie #357 2020: Christmas With the Kranks (2004) 22 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 This movie has a poor reputation in that the majority of reviews give it superlatives such as 'WORST CHRISTMAS MOVIE EVER', so obviously I was expecting very little. Well, maybe…
Comedy… Movie #356 2020: Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) 21 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 Couldn't resist. I loved Gremlins so much that I had to watch the sequel immediately afterwards. They're infectious!... in more ways than one. As this second instalment took six years…
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