🍿 Finished watching: Scent of a Woman. Strange movie to watch with an 8 year old and a 12 year old I know - but they were mesmerised by this movie. We had to skip the scenes he is vivid in, but it was nice seeing them understand and follow the story. Such a great set of characters.
Movies
🍿 Finished watching: Interstellar. No idea why its taken this long to watch this movie, but fantastic sci-fi. Music on point. Great design and a stellar cast.
🍿 Finished watching: Princess Mononoke. This has absolutely captured Zane’s imagination in a massive way. He’s maybe watched this 3-4 times since we originally watched it.
🍿 Finished watching: Spirited Away. It’s Miyazaki season in the house.
🍿 Finished watching: The Wind Rises. Ryan’s been looking for anything aeroplane related to watch. Combined it with some Miyazaki. What’s interesting is how excited he was learning about aeronautical engineers.
🍿 Finished watching: The Godfather Part II. Every time I watch this movie, I never can make up mind. Who is more perfect for their role, Deniro or Pacino. Just a brilliant movie.
🍿 Finished watching: Hilda and the Mountain King. This was excellent. The colours pitch perfect. The storyline. The characters. Definitely going to read the series with Zane.
Supergirl Official Teaser Trailer. What I love about these new DC movies is that they feel like fun watching. The characters seem interesting to watch. Superhero movies don’t need to be serious.
When I was younger the more serious the more ‘respectable’ they would be deemed, but actually that’s just noise.
🍿 Finished watching: Adolescence. What a show to ring in the new year. Incredible show but is that much more powerful for me as a father of tweens going on teens. After I watched the first episode I just had to finish it all in one go.
🍿 Finished watching: Our Great National Parks Season 1. I certainly have my issues with Obama and the legacy (his support for the Israeli machine and his recent choice of words on the ‘people of Gaza’ he has left a bad taste in my mouth) but I enjoyed this series.
🍿 Finished watching: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. This was legitimately awesome. The soundtrack wasn’t as strong as the first, but the animation was amazing, and I’ve not been excited for the next instalment of a movie since Back to the Future.
🍿 Finished watching: Sinners. I knew this was vampire related. I’m not a massive vampire lore fan but this had a 30 Days of Night vibe to it, except in the 1930s, mixed with blues. Great soundtrack.
🍿 Finished watching: Klaus. Our go to Christmas movie. It’s one of my favourite things and 6 years after its release I still laugh and am sad all over again.
🍿 Finished watching: Love the Coopers. Loved this movie. Great actors, great script. Great comedy moments.
I don’t usually do this, but what the hell is going on with Liverpool? I mean, 8 losses in 11 games…just incredible fall from grace. This is not slump, this is full on crisis. 🍿
🍿 Finished watching: The Fantastic 4: First Steps. This was great. The whole family loved it (including Yasmine). Even the hockey sci-fi stuff landed and obviously loved the 60s setting.
🍿Finished watching: Love Is Blind Season 9. Yasmine and I started watching this during Covid and have continued. This season was rubbish.
🍿Finished watching: Reunion I actually really enjoyed this movie. Had enough character as a comedy and who done it to keep me engaged.
🍿Finished watching: Silo Season 1. Great show. So strong in fact as soon I finished watching this I went and read the books, which are truly incredible.
🍿 Finished watching: The Wild Robot. Great movie. Hadn’t heard of it but totally exceeded my expectations.
Finished watching: How to build a MotorCar S1E1, Episode 1 🍿. This was about building a Bentley. Ryan is heavily into cars at the moment. I think Drive to Survive is next.
🍿 I am soo here for the total collapse of Elon Musk and Trump’s bromance. Just get the popcorn out and enjoy the show. America’s greatest douchebag couple.
🍿 Watched 1917 which I thought was excellent. While there are some plot holes, I do enjoy this genre of one-take movies (Apocalypto and Gravity are the other examples that come to mind).
🍿 Just finished watching Turning Red. We’ve not had a family movie in a good long while. This was excellent in that it was completely different to just about every Pixar movie before it, in the best possible way.
🍿 Just finished the 2nd season of Cobra Kai. Takes everything I loved about the movie and makes it infinitely better. Love the characters, the humour and the overall story. There are a few weak scenes but overall I give it a massive👍.
🍿 Finally got around to watching The Incredibles 2. Maybe the fact that I am now a father with 2 kids, this movie means even more to me now? Maybe the fact that every time I saw Jack-Jack I was reminded of Ryan? I was over the superhero parts, but everything else rocked my world.