JANUARY
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
This was amazing, and Michael Keaton as the Vulture is the second-best MCU villain ever.
Doctor Strange (2016)
Very weird, and extremely intense. Leaves you with a lot to chew on afterwards.
Monsters Vs. Aliens (2009)
This cast is loaded - Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen, Stephen Colbert, Paul Rudd, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler and Hugh Laurie. It's a fun movie, and quotable, but otherwise forgettable.
Quigley Down Under (1990)
A Wyoming sharpshooter faces off with a corrupt land baron in Australia in this brutal Tom Selleck Western.
X-Men (2000)
This movie kickstarted the superhero genre, more or less. It's weird. But Patrick Stewart as Professor X and Ian McKellen as Magneto was great casting.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
A unfunny parody of Chinatown using cartoon characters; while it paved the way for Space Jam, it definitely didn't live up to the hype.
Spotlight (2015)
Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo are part of a team of investigative journalists at the Boston Globe working on a huge-scale story of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. It's a somber movie, but worth watching.
High School Musical (2006)
A goofy, throwaway cult classic.
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Tom Hanks stars in this movie about the intricacies of Cold War prisoner exchanges.
Sing (2016)
In an anthropomorphic animal-ized Los Angeles, a theater owner puts on a singing competition. Cat includes Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johannson and John C. Reilly.
A Bug's Life (1998)
An eccentric inventor ant must save his colony from the enslavement of grasshoppers, with the help of troupe of semi-employed circus performers.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Will Ferrell is a NASCAR driver. The plot is pretty self-explanatory.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Robin Williams is an eccentric English teacher at a hidebound 1959 New England boarding school in this sad drama.
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman star in this perfect movie about a woman who gains a family by pretending to be the fiancee of a man in a coma.
Fantastic Four (2015)
Yeesh. Even worse than the first two, this reboot makes everyone ultraserious, explains no background, and all the main characters are one-dimensional and pissed off.
Total watched this month: 15.
FEBRUARY
The Hunger Games (2012)
This worked fairly well as an adaptation.
The Princess Bride (1987)
S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure.
Black Panther (2018)
T'Challa begins his reign as Wakanda's king.
Total watched this month: 3, bringing total to 18.
MARCH
Rewatch of Black Panther.
Ferdinand (2017)
A very loose adaptation of Munro Leaf's classic picture book, starring John Cena, Kate McKinnon and Peyton Manning. I really liked it a lot.
Justice League (2017)
Joss Whedon's direction made this watchable. Being part of the DCEU, it was still a mess, but with soem glimmer of future redemption.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
I hated this movie when I saw it in theaters. I still hated it on rewatch.
Ready Player One (2018)
The much-streamlined and improved adaptation of Ernest Cline's dystopian novel about a treasure hunt for control of the Internet.
Apollo 13 (1995)
Directed by Ron Howard, it stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise and Bill Paxton as astronauts in this enthralling historical account of the moon landing that never happened.
Total watched this month: 5, bringing total to 23.
APRIL
The Village (2004)
A very thinky Gothic suspense/horror movie with a loaded cast, starring Bryce Dallas Howard.
Iron Man (2008)
Everyone has to start somewhere.
The Incredible Hulk (2009)
Edward Norton is a much better Bruce Banner than Mark Ruffalo. This is a fugitive movie, and very forgotten.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Thanos is finally here...
Total watched this month: 4, bringing total to 27.
MAY
Rewatch of Avengers: Infinity War
The Big Sleep (1946)
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star in this movie based on a Raymond Chandler novel.
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
Not as good as the first, definitely better than the second, most of the cast looked like they felt incredibly out of place. Also, the dance numbers lost all hope of connecting to reality.
Bringing Up Baby (1940)
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, a leopard, and lightning-paced screwball hijinks. What else do you need?
The Greatest Showman (2017)
A fanciful, not-particularly-accurate biography of P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman), also starring Zendaya and Zac Efron.
12 Strong (2018)
A war movie starring John Krasinski and Michael Pena about the first action of the War on Terror.
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
This movie....exists. It falls into 3-A in terms of chronology.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones' first - and probably best - adventure./
Rewatch of While You Were Sleeping
Total watched this month: 7, bringing total to 34.
JUNE
Incredibles 2 (2018)
This sequel really didn't need to be made. It wasn't bad, but really could have benefited from a timejump instead of picking up literally seconds after the first movie ended.
Jurassic Park (1993)
Based on Michael Crichton's novel, this might be even better. Certainly much more terrifying.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
The spirit of the novel was kept extremely well in this film that stars and is directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Total watched this month: 3, bringing total to 37.
JULY
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
This was much better than the first one - following Captain America: Civil War, and set at least partially concurrent to Avengers: Infinity War, Scott and Hope try to rescue Janet Van Dyne from the Quantum Realm.
Total watched this month: 1, bringing total to 38.
AUGUST
Turner and Hooch (1989)
This was an odd movie. Slow-paced, thoughtful, boring, part murder-mystery and part odd-couple comedy, it's extremely violent and has way too much of Tom Hanks in his underwear.
Hotel for Dogs (2009)
Emma Roberts and Don Cheadle star in this movie about a group of teenagers who commit a litany of crimes in the name of rescuing dogs across the city.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Based on the 2008 novel, this story is sharper different because of the different medium, but an enjoyable, though rather slow, watch.
Total watched this month: 3, bringing total to 41.
SEPTEMBER
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Very thoughtful, if not particularly accurate, look at how Walt Disney secured the rights to adapt P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins. Tom Hanks is a great actor, and it was beautifully filmed.
Crisis on Earth-X (2017)
Not technically a film, or if so, a TV movie, this is a massive Arrowverse crossover across episodes of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow. Nazis and doppelgangers are always good antagonists.
Rewatch of The Village
The Truman Show (1998)
A man's whole life is broadcast as a hit reality show, and he has no idea.
Total watched this month: 3, bringing total to 44.
OCTOBER
Skyscraper (2018)
This movie was very average. Starred The Rock, which is something, but the plot was too simple, the script was terrible, and the acting for the most part was uninspired.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Gothic elements were introduced after Isla Nublar's dinosaurs are no more due to a volcanic explosion. It was easily the best since the original.
New York Minute (2004)
Mix Ferris Bueller with Legally Blonde, and you have the final Olsen twins movie, which is lightweight, thoroughly ridiculous, extremely problematic if thought about for more than twenty seconds and entirely watchable.
Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002)
Andrea and Buddy join the Fernfield Junior High baseball team as they try to adjust to life without Josh, who's now at college.
Total watched this month: 4, bringing total to 48.
NOVEMBER
Stardust (2007)
This is loosely based on a Neil Gaiman novel of the same name, it's an odd but mostly satisfying fairy tale.
Miracle (2004)
A mostly-faithful retelling of the Miracle on Ice starring Kurt Russell.
Newsies: The Broadway Musical (2017)
This was a filmed version of a hugely successful stage musical based on a film that flopped horribly 25 years ago, based on the newsboys strike of 1899.
Air Bud: World Pup (2000)
Josh and Buddy take on soccer for Fernfield High, because of a pretty British girl on the team - and she has a Golden Retriever!
Air Bud Spikes Back (2002)
Andrea and Buddy learn volleyball one summer after Tammy moves to California.
Total watched this month: 5, bringing total to 53.
DECEMBER
Air Buddies (2006)
Buddy's puppies can talk, and they need to rescue their parents from a kidnapper.
The Search for Santa Paws (2011)
This was terrible, even by the admittedly-low standards of Christmas movies.
Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups (2012)
Also thoroughly terrible and pointless.
It's a Wonderful Life (1947)
The Jimmy Stewart Christmas classic.
Little Women (2018)
This adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel is set in modern times and stars High School Musical's Lucas Grabeel as Laurie and Lea Thompson as Marmee, with Mandy Moore, Anne Hathaway and Shailene Woodley lookalikes as Meg, Jo and Beth. It worked really well and captured the tone of the book perfectly.
Rewatch of Avengers: Infinity War
Rewatch of Ant-Man and the Wasp
Total watched this month: 5, bringing total to for the year.to 58
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