Movies of 2019

JANUARY
The Princess Bride (1987)
     S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure.

Arrival (2016)
     Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner star in this rather odd alien invasion story about the power of language and memory.

It Takes Two (1995)
     Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen star in this Prince and the Pauper-inspired tale. It's goofy and improbable, but not bad.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
     The best Star Wars movie ever, because it's gritty and focused, dealing with how the Death Star plans were stolen.

Total watched this month: 4.

FEBRUARY
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
     This was a beautiful documentary about Mr. Rogers..

Total watched this month: 1, bringing total to 5.

MARCH
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
    The final entry in the Night at the Museum trilogy, it was oddly moving.

Captain Marvel (2019)
     This is the best MCU solo movie yet.

Rewatch of Captain Marvel

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
     Jamie Lee Curtis, Piper Perabo, Drew Barrymore and George Lopez all kind of sleepwalk through this goofy dogcentric picture, but it's better than it ought to be. Reviewed for Dog O"Day. 

Rewatch of Captain Marvel

Total watched this month: 3, bringing total to 8.

APRIL
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
     Based on the James Dashner novel, this didn't really follow the book that well, but covered most of the same storyline in a Jurassic Park type way. It got all the heart and emotions for sure.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
     So trippy. But worth watching.

Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
     This was fantastic.

Sunday School Musical (2008)
     "Let's make a Christian version of Glee and High School Musical mashed together!" I only watched this because Paul Asay and Jake Roberson of PluggedIn recommended it as a bad movie to watch on their podcast. It was pretty awful, but not quite good enough to laugh at, mainly because it was so earnestly dreadful and dreadfully earnest.

The Natural (1984)
     Robert Redford's classic baseball fairy tale. It was pretty good (hadn't seen it before).

Total watched this month: 5, bringing total to 13.

MAY
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
     Everything led up to this. All the emotions.

Total watched this month: 1, bringing total to 16.

JUNE
Underdog (2007)
     A spoof of Superman starring a clumsy Beagle. It works really well.

Toy Story 4 (2019)
      This didn't need to be made, but I was in tears at the end.

Turner and Hooch (1989)
     The world's strangest, slowest-paced and violent buddy cop movie ever, starring Tom Hanks as a detective and a massive slobbering dog.

Total watched this month: 3, bringing total to 19.

JULY
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
     After returning from the Snap, Peter Parker and his classmates go to Europe as a end-of-school trip. The best Spider-Man movie ever.

Rewatch of Spider-Man: Far From Home

Pleasantville (1998)
     I'm not sure what I thought about this movie, which stars Reese Witherspoon and Tobey Maguire as 90's twins who are zapped into a 1950's sitcom, but it's definitely art.

Superman Returns (2006)
     This is very slow, but not a bad movie, Brandon Routh is great as Superman/Clark Kent, though it would make a far better novel, due to a lot of subtext.

Total watched this month: 3, bringing total to 22.

AUGUST
About Time (2013)
     This British film is maybe the most beautiful movie I've ever seen. It's about a man and his relationship with his father (they can both time travel), his sister, and his wife, and stars Rachel McAdams.

The Mighty Ducks (1992)
     An arrogant lawyer finds himself coaching a ragtag group of peewee hockey players...and finding out that he enjoys it.

Air Bud (1997)
     Josh finds a new friend in basketball-playing Golden Retriever Buddy after they move across the country to Fernfield, Washington, following his dad's death.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
     One of my favorite Westerns, this was written by William Goldman and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the legendary and fascinating outlaws.

Total watched this month: 4, bringing total to 26.

SEPTEMBER
High Noon (1952)
     A thoughtful classic Western starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly.

Witness (1985)
     Harrison Ford is a Philadelphia police detective protecting an Amish boy who witnessed a murder.   

Total watched this month: 2, bringing total to 28.

OCTOBER
Holiday (1938)
     Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star in this tightly-structured tale as a dreamy engaged businessman and the fiancee's sister who falls in love with him.

Valkyrie (2008)
     Tom Cruise stars in this well-done movie about a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler.

Total watched this month: 2, bringing total to 30.

NOVEMBER
Over the Hedge (2006)
     This film very faithfully reproduces the energy of the comic strip it's based on, with some excellent voice acting as well.

Lady and the Tramp (1955)
     The original animated Disney classic.

Lady and the Tramp (2019)
    This live-action remake might be slightly better than the original.

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
     The very inferior adaptation of Fannie Flagg's Southern Gothic novel.

Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
     This was dreadful.  I thought it would be, but wow.

Total watched this month: 5, bringing total to 35.

DECEMBER
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
     The annual Jimmy Stewart classic never gets old.

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
     This is maybe the best Spider-Man movie out of all of them, which is saying something.

Total watched this month: 2, bringing total for the year to 37.