2020 was a strange year for all of us with the global pandemic and all... and that impacted everything of course, including movies and television production. So these are the only movies I've seen that were released in 2020.
Favorite Movies of 2020 (definitely want to re-watch)
1. Hamilton
2. Tenet
3. The Prom
4. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
5. The Boys in the Band
6. Wonder Woman 1984
7. Soul
8. Disclosure
Good Movies of 2020 (would probably re-watch): 9. Enola Holmes
10. Becoming
11. Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square
12. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Decent Movies of 2020 (less likely to re-watch): 13. The Half of It
Pictured above are my top 15 favorite movies that I've seen that were released in 2019. I still watched a lot of movies this year, around 94 if I remembered to log them all on letterboxd.com, down from 135 movies last year, but I read a lot more books this year than last year, and I'm happy with that trade-off.
Favorite Movies of 2019 (definitely want to re-watch)
1. Avengers: Endgame and
1. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are tied for my favorite movie of 2019! I cannot choose between them!!!
3. Captain Marvel
4. Spider-Man: Far from Home
5. Little Women
6. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 7. Frozen II
8. Aladdin 9. Toy Story 4
10. Harriet 11. Tolkien
12. Knives Out
13. Just Mercy
14. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (read my review here)
15. Late Night
Good Movies of 2019 (would probably re-watch):
16. Yesterday
17. Dark Phoenix
18. Isn’t It Romantic
19. Charlie's Angels
20. Long Shot 21. Booksmart 22. The Upside
23. The Lion King
24. Amazing Grace
25. The Hustle
26. Men in Black: International
27. A Dog’s Journey
I watched A LOT more movies in 2018 than ever before! Assuming I logged them all on letterboxd, 135 movies, to be exact. And of those 135 movies, 59 of them were new releases from 2018. Most of these movie titles below are linked to my very short mini-reviews on letterboxd.com. (I highly recommend it if you like to watch a lot of movies. It's like Goodreads for movies.)
Favorite Movies of 2018 (definitely want to re-watch)
Meh (Probably won't re-watch):
47. The Spy Who Dumped Me
48. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
49. Dog Days 50. Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
51. The Miracle Season
52. Tomb Raider
53. Tag
54. Bumblebee
55. Alex Strangelove
56. Peter Rabbit
I thought I didn't need another Spider-Man movie. I was wrong. This was so much fun!
Here are some of the reasons I loved it:
- I tend to enjoy anything that plays with the ideas of the multiverse/parallel worlds.
- It was very funny at times.
- The animation was stunning! They made it feel like you were watching an actual comic book come to life!
- really fun soundtrack
- Spider-Gwen!!!
- Looney Tunes inspired Peter Porker/Spider-Ham! ("That's all folks!" / "Can he say that? You know, legally?")
- Stan Lee cameo
- Spider-Man Noir, the Peter Parker from a black and white universe in 1933. He is a private detective, of course. And he is voiced by Nicholas Cage.
- During the first origin story recap by Peter Parker, we see all of these flashback type clips referring to scenes we've seen in previous Spider-man movies, including the iconic upside-down kiss in the rain from the first one with Tobey Maguire and the train rescue.
These are basically my favorite shows that are currently airing plus one I'm really excited about that is premiering soon!
I came down with the Flu (type A) on Friday, February 9. 😓 I didn't know I had the Flu until Sunday, the 11th. And I didn't go back to work until Friday the 16th. So I slept a lot and watched a lot of TV that week! I binge watched all of season 5 of Will and Grace, caught up on Supergirl and The Flash, and watched the final two episodes of Star Trek: Discover, which were AWESOME! I LOVE that show!
There weren't many new episodes airing during the Olymics, and I didn't watch the Olympics. But this week I watched the first two episodes of the new season of The Voice because I freakin' love Kelly Clarkson! And oh my word, the judges were cracking me up! I have a feeling I will at least watch all of the blind auditions this season and I might even keep watching after that, which would be a first!
I'm also starting to watch Battlestar Galactica (2004) for the first time. I'm sure I'll be telling you more about that later...
Oh, and I've watched two episodes of Black Mirror:
S1E3: The Entire History of You
Set in an alternative reality where everyone has access to a system which records everything they do, see or hear. You need never forget a face, a holiday or a night out again... but is that always a good thing?
S3E1: Nosedive
Insecure office worker Lacie lives in a happy, smiley, status-obsessed nightmare world. Her old friend Naomi is one of society’s elites, and Lacie may have found a way to join her…
I know there are some episodes I don't want to watch, but I think there are several more that I do. (S4E1: USS Callister; S2E1: Be Right Back; S3E4: San Junipero; S3E2: Playtest;)
Other shows I want to watch
I want to watch David Letterman's show on Netflix: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction! First President Obama, then George Clooney.
I also still want to go back and finish watching The Good Place season one. I watched the first three episodes, and I liked them a lot, but I just haven't gotten back to it yet.
Eventually I still want to check out Black Lightning (the newest superhero show on the CW). But that might not happen anytime soon. I think I would be more inclined to watch it if it were set in the Arrow-verse the way the other four shows are. But I don't know anything about this superhero, so maybe it just wouldn't make sense to connect him to the others? I don't know.
There is a new show called Krypton that I want to check out though. The first episode will air on March 21 on SyFy. Krypton will focus on "the untold story of Superman's grandfather as he fights for justice on his home planet." (Please be good! Please be good!)
I've also been told that I need to watch The Orville, and I probably will... eventually...
And finally, there is a new show called "Rise" premiering on March 13 on NBC that I'm looking forward to. When I watched the preview it reminded me A LOT of Glee, but I loved Glee, so I'm fine with that, lol!
As always I am ridiculously behind on all of the podcasts I want to listen to... but I did manage to listen to a few semi-recent episodes of The Bible for Normal People by Peter Enns and Jared Byas:
Most recently I was on the episode on "Women and Evangelicalism". John Weldy, Tiffany Earle, and I discuss the relationship between women and evangelicalism through the lens of Deborah Jian Lee’s Rescuing Jesus. How have women been shaped by evangelicalism? Why is there such a disparity in gender equality? What is the effect of purity culture? And how can we address these issues? You can listen to it by clicking here.
If those books sound like your cup of tea and you would like to join the Facebook Group you can click here to email me. Or click over to the Theology Book Club page and fill out the contact form at the bottom. In addition to the online discussion within the group, we also have monthly (and weekly for those who are interested) chats where people can participate by talking over the voice channel (using Discord), or they can choose to just listen and engage via text if they so wish.
I saw someone post about their favorite films from the last ten years and so I thought I would do that too! These are my personal favorites, not necessarily the best or greatest movie of their year. Also, I am really bad at choosing between my absolute favorites! So I list lots of three-way ties, four-way ties, and even one five-way tie! Can you guess my favorite genres? haha!
2017: Three-way tie
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Wonder Woman
- The Greatest Showman
2016: Four-way tie
- Captain America: Civil War
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Arrival (I couldn't stop thinking about this one after I watched it!)
- Hidden Figures
2015: Three-way tie
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- The Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Ant-Man
2014: Three-way tie
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
2013: Three-way tie
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Iron Man 3
- Man of Steel
2012: The Avengers (This is the only year I could choose just one top favorite!)
2011: Four-way tie
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II
- X-Men: First Class
- Captain America
- The Adjustment Bureau
2010: Four-way tie
- Inception
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Toy Story 3
2009: Four-way tie
- Star Trek
- Inkheart
- Avatar
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2008: Two-way tie
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (because, Narnia!)
- Iron Man
2007: Five-way tie
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Stardust
- Hairspray
- August Rush
- Enchanted
I love movies. I love going to the theater to watch my favorite kind of movies on the big screen, especially if I can go to a movie theater that has recliners! I love watching movies with friends and family and talking about them afterward. My favorite movies are probably almost all in the fantasy or sci-fi genre, as you can see from the lists below. I love almost all of the superhero movies. (Again, you will see a theme here.) So here I present a list of the 2017 movies I have seen so far, ranked from "favorite" to "meh", along with the ones I still want to see. (Side note: What a great year for superhero movies!)
Several of these movie titles now link to my very short mini-reviews on letterboxd.com. Feel free to add me on there if you are on there. (I highly recommend it if you like to watch a lot of movies. It's like Goodreads for movies.)
Favorite Movies of 2017 (definitely want to re-watch)
18. The Big Sick
19. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
20. Daddy's Home 2
21. A Dog's Purpose
22. A Bad Mom's Christmas
23. Coco
24. Marshall
Decent Movies of 2017 (less likely to re-watch):
25. Call Me by Your Name 26. Everything, Everything 27. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
28. The Circle
29. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
30. Descendants 2
31. Heal
32. The Upside
Meh (probably won't watch again): 33. The Hitman's Bodyguard
I had to pull from two decades in order to have enough movies for a good list for this post! It's interesting to me that my top four movies here are all musicals, and most of the movies in my "Good-Decent" category are the Disney movies from those years.
Favorite Movies of the 50s-60s (definitely re-watchable):
1. The Sound of Music (65)
2. White Christmas (54)
3. West Side Story (61)
4. Mary Poppins (64)
Good-Decent Movies of the 50s-60s (might re-watch):
5. Peter Pan (53)
6. My Fair Lady (64)
7. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (61)
8. Alice in Wonderland (51)
9. The Sword in the Stone (63)
10. Cinderella (50)
11. Lady and the Tramp (55)
12. Sleeping Beauty (59)
Meh (Probably wouldn't choose to re-watch):
13. Camelot (67)
14. The Ten Commandments (56)
15. The Jungle Book (67)
16. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (69)
Well, I suppose it's not all that surprising that I have not seen very many movies that were released in the 70's.
Favorite Movies of the 70s (definitely re-watchable):
1. Star Wars: A New Hope (77)
2. Superman (78)
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (75)
4. Grease (78)
Good-Decent Movies of the 70s (might re-watch):
5. Where the Red Fern Grows (74)
6. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (79)
7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (71)
8. The Godfather (72)
9. The Godfather Part II (74)
10. Jesus Christ Superstar (73)
Meh (Probably wouldn't choose to re-watch):
10. Robin Hood (73)
11. Pete's Dragon (77)
12. The Aristocats (70)
13. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (75)
14. Tora! Tora! Tora! (70)
