June 2019

Stressful month. Started with not being able to sleep well, hence lots of views on 1st of the month. Hasn't vastly improved but I'm optimistic. I went to the cinema 7 times, I enjoyed that. Oh and Love Island started. Please don't hate me.

June

1/6 John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid (2015)  Bo Burnham: Make Happy (2016) Art History (2011) RBG (2018) 21 Jump Street (2012) Booksmart (2019) The OC (1)
2/6 The Bold Type (2) Rocketman (2019) The OC (4) Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
3/6 Chef's Table (1) Love Island (1)
4/6 Chef's Table (1) Jane the Virgin (1) Love Island (1)
5/6 Godzilla King of Monsters (2019)
6/6 Jane the Virgin (2) Love Island (1)
7/6 Dark Phoenix (2019)
9/6 A Single Man (2009) Black Mirror: Season 5 (3) Love Island (1)
10/6 Love Island (1) Moana (2016)
11/6 Men in Black 3 (2012) Love Island (1)
12/6 Love Island (1)
13/6 Love Island (1)
14/6 The Bold Type (2) Venom (2018) Love Island (1)
15/6 Men in Black: International (2019) Murder Mystery (2019) Jessica Jones: Season 3 (3) Out of Sight (1998)
16/6 Toni Erdmann (2016) Rocky (1976) Love Island (1)
17/6 Chernobyl (1) Big Little Lies (1) Love Island (1)
18/6 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Love Island (1)
19/6 Diego Maradona (2019) Love Island (1)
20/6 We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Love Island (1)
21/6 Jane the Virgin (1) Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004) Love Island (1)
22/6 Scoop (2006) The Front Page (1974) The Beguiled (2017)
23/6 Toy Story 4 (2019) Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) Halloween (1978) Love Island (1)
24/6 Big Little Lies (1) Chernobyl (1) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Love Island (1)
25/6 Jane the Virgin (1) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Love Island (1)
26/6 Chernobyl (1) Love Island (1) School of Rock (2003)
27/6 About Time (2013) ANIMA (2019) Love Island (1)
28/6 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Chernobyl (1) Shaft (2019) Love Island (1)
29/6 Godzilla (1954) Apollo 11 (2019)
30/6 Climax (2018) Chernobyl (1) The Darjeeling Limited (2007) Love Island (1)

May 2019

I didn't sleep very well last night. I did go on my honeymoon this month. I didn't like the end of Game of Thrones very much. I did develop an unhealthy obsession playing Words with Friends (this will dissipate soon enough). I thought I had more interesting things to say.

Oh, I didn't originally watch the back half of season 3 of The OC when it was on the tv so that's why some of that will be in bold. I really hated it but then Season 4 of the OC happened and I loved it more than anything. Also Barry is the best show on the television right now (ignoring my DVD boxsets).

May

1/5 The OC (2) Thoroughbreds (2017) The Odyssey Homer (Translated by Emily Wilson) (2018) 525p
2/5 The OC: Season 2 (3)
3/5 The OC (3) Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
4/5 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Jane the Virgin: Season 5 (1) Knock Down the House (2019) The OC (2)
5/5 The Last Sumer (2019) Jane the Virgin (5) The OC (4) Short Term 12 (2013)
6/5 Game of Thrones (1) The OC (4) Kong: Skull Island (2017) The Good Fight: Season 2 (1) Hard Boiled (1992)
7/5 The OC (2)
9/5 The King of Comedy (1982) Long Shot (2019) The OC (2) 
10/5 Riverdale (1) Jane the Virgin (1) Wine Country (2019) It (2017)
11/5 The OC (4) Xanadu (1980)
12/5 The Warriors (1979) The OC: Season 3 (4)
13/5 Detective Pikachu (2019) Game of Thrones (1)
14/5 The OC (4)
15/5 It (2017) The OC (2)
16/5 John Wick 3: Parabellum (2019)
17/5 The OC (4)
18/5 Madeline's Madeline (2018) The OC (3) Eurovision Song Contest 2019
19/5 Barry (1) The OC (2) Riverdale (1)
23/5 Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 Robert Goodwin (2015) 490p
24/5 Captain America: Civil War (2016)
27/5 Conquistadors: The Spanish Explorers and the Discovery of the New World Michael Wood (2010) 289p Mamma Mia Here We Go Again (2018) The OC: Season 4 (3) The Mummy (2017)
28/5 Barry (1) Big Little Lies: Season 1 (7) The OC (4) The Bold Type (2)
29/5 The OC (4)
30/5 John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018)
31/5 The OC (1) Always Be My Maybe (2019)

April 2019

Saw the Avengers: Endgame but surprisingly Eighth Grade made me cry more.  I'll never not love Captain Marvel. The wedding was wonderful :) Somehow managed to convince the husband to watch the OC from the very beginning.

April

1/4 Fresh off the Boat (1) Ginger and Rosa (2012)
2/4 Fresh off the Boat (1) The Object of My Affection (1998) Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No.1 Enemy Bill Browder (2015) 470p
5/4 Mamma Mia (2008) Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (1) Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
6/4 Shazam! (2019) Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (3) The Incredibles 2 (2018) Unicorn Store (2017)
7/4 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (5) Hotel Artemis (2018) Fresh off the Boat (1) Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
8/4 Fresh off the Boat (1) Speed (1994)
9/4 Fresh off the Boat (1) John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
10/4 Fresh off the Boat (1) Lady Macbeth (2016)
11/4 NT LIVE: ALL ABOUT EVE (2019)
12/4 Fresh off the Boat (1) Mullholland Drive (2001)
13/4 Eraserhead (1977) Guava Island (2019) In a Relationship (2018) Fresh off the Boat (1)  Rough Night (2017) The Bold Type (1) American Gods (1)
14/4 Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) American Gods (2) Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010) Perfect Date (2019)
15/4 The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History David Enrich (2017) 449p Fresh off the Boat (1) Game of Thrones: Final season (1) American Gods (1)
16/4 Mid90s (2018)
17/4 Hellboy (2019)
19/4 Fugue (2018) The Bold Type (1) Riverdale (1) Someone Great (2019) Blue Iguana (2018) The Apartment (1960) The Affair: Season 4 (3)
20/4 The Affair (7)
21/4 The Breakfast Club (1985) I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead (2018) The OC: Season 1 (7) Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
22/4 Game of Thrones (1) The OC (5) Barry: Season 2 (2) Vagabond (1985) The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
23/4 Wild Rose (2018)
24/4 The OC (1)
25/4 The OC (1) Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser (2013) 278p
26/4 The OC (1) Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
27/4 Avengers: Endgame (2019) American Gods (1) Riverdale (1) The OC (4) The Bold Type (1)
28/4 Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse (2018) The OC (3)
29/4 Eighth Grade (2018) Game of Thrones (1)
30/4 The OC (3)

March 2019

Strange month. I didn't finish Kingdom Hearts 3 in the end. I read a lot of books, can you guess what my book club was about? I watched a lot of films I've seen before. I'll be married in 3 days.

March

1/3 KINGDOM HEARTS 3 (Completed Olympus world)
2/3 KINGDOM HEARTS 3 (Completed Twilight Town world and most of Toy Box world) Suite Française (2014) Believe Me J P Delaney (2019) 385p
3/3 KINGDOM HEARTS 3 (Finished Toy Box, Completed Corona World, started Monstropolis) Sister Act (1992) The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
4/3 Fresh off the Boat (1) KINGDOM HEARTS 3 (Finished Monstropolis, started Arendelle)
5/3 KINGDOM HEARTS 3 (Finished Arendelle, started The Caribbean)
6/3 Fresh off the Boat (1) KINGDOM HEARTS 3 (Finshed The Caribbean) Leaving Neverland: Part one (2019)
7/3 Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street Sheelah Kolhatkar (2017) 306p Leaving Neverland: Part two (2019)
8/3 Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Isn't it Romantic? (2019)
9/3 Captain Marvel (2019) Fish Tank (2009)
10/3 La La Land (2016) KINGDOM HEARTS 3 (Completed San Fransokyo and Dark Beach bit and did a lot of Keyblade Graveyard) Keanu (2016)
11/3 Chef's Table (1) Orlando (1992)
12/3 Fresh off the Boat (1) Submarine (2010)
13/3 Fresh off the Boat (1) Triple Frontier (2019)
17/3 Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream Francis Spufford (2010) 365p Riverdale (1) Beauty and the Beast (2017) American Gods (Season 2 - 1st episode) I Feel Pretty (2018)
18/3 American Gods (1) Under the Silver Lake (2018) Detour (1945) The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann (2) Drive (2011) The Death of Stalin (2017)
19/3 Fresh off the Boat (1) Reservoir Dogs (1992)
20/3 Fresh off the Boat (1) Faces Places (2017)
21/3 Vikings: A History Neil Oliver (2012) 352p Captain Marvel (2019) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
22/3 Riverdale (1) Ingrid Goes West (2017)
23/3 A Separation (2011) Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 (2017) Spiderman: Homecoming (2017) Big Hero 6 (2014) They Live (1988)
24/3 The Game (1997)  Viking Britain: A History Thomas Williams (2017) 347p Fresh off the Boat (1) Blockers (2018)
25/3 Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman (2017) 281p Fresh off the Boat (1) Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
26/3 Fresh off the Boat (1) Serenity (2019)
27/3 Us (2019)
28/3 The Vikings Magnus Magnusson (2016) 307p
29/3 Riverdale (1) The Highwaymen (2019)
30/3 Le Bonheur (1965) Dumbo (2019) Operation Finale (2018) West Side Story (1961)
31/3 The Killers (1946) Legally Blonde (2001)

February 2019

Short month. Scant thoughts. My main thought is that I definitely have been sitting around a lot... I hope I have a lot less free time this following month is all I'm going to say.  I don't know where I'd go though.

I have set up a Letterboxd account and this has been the cause of my compulsive obsession with watching as many movies as humanly possible. Send help.

1/2 Passion (2012)
3/2 It Happened One Night (1934) First Reformed (2018) The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2) Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
4/2 The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (1) Non Stop (2014)
5/2 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (2007) 230p
6/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
7/2 Riverdale (1) 
8/2  Fresh off the Boat (2) The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
9/2 The Maltese Falcon (1941) Bad Lieutenant (1992) The Party (2017) Before I Fall (2017) Philadelphia (1993) Manchester by the Sea (2016)
10/2 Children of Men (2006) Alice in the Cities (1974) Crazy Rich Asians (2018) Arrival (2016) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) The BAFTAs 2019
11/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) Beast (2017) The Production of Money: How to break the Power of Bankers Ann Pettifor (2016) 160p
12/2 Ideal Home (2018) High Flying Bird (2019)
13/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) 20th Century Women (2016)
14/2 The Bodyguard (1992)
15/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) Don't Worry He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
16/2 The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (6) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2018) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2)
17/2 No Man of her Own (1950) The Long Walk (The Bachman Books) Stephen King (1979) 238p Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) Control (2007) Tyrannosaur (2011)
18/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) Miss Sloane (2016)
19/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) Hereditary (2018)
20/2 A Private War (2018)
21/2 Abducted in Plain Sight (2017)
22/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) Dirty John (5)
23/2 Dirty John (3) She's Out of My League (2010) Roma (2018) Dumplin' (2018)
24/2 The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World Catherine Nixey (2017) 247p On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) A Foreign Affair (1948) A Most Violent Year (2014) American Animals (2018)
25/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
26/2 Fresh off the Boat (2) ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019)
27/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) Paris, Texas (1984)
28/2 Fresh off the Boat (1) Behind the Curve (2018) Riverdale (1)

January 2019

Time seems to be moving at a frightening rate. Where did January go?

I'm trying to go to the cinema more often, well trying to get out more in general. Special shout out to Destroyer, a film in which Nicole Kidman was (as always) outstanding, but which excited me due to it's strong female story.

I certainly read the longest book in a while about the American Civil War, a period I knew very little about. My history fascination is certainly giving me a greater understanding of the world around me. I'm not quite capable of doing anything more than nodding sagely though.

Same rules apply, anything emboldened I haven't seen before. Anything italicised is a tv show, underlined a book, standard is a film. So far I've seen 30 films this year. Good times.

1/1 New Girl (5 episodes season 6, 8 episodes season 7 – FINISHED!) Lost in Translation (2004) Doctor Who: New Year Special, Luther (Season 5 – 1 episode)
 2/1 Luther (Season 4 – both episodes and Season 5 – 1 episode)
 3/1 Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Luther (1) 
4/1 The Favourite (2018)
 5/1 Luther (1) Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016) Good Morning (1959) You (8)
 6/1 You (2) Dogville (2003) Fresh off the Boat (Season 1 – all 13 episodes)
 7/1 Fresh off the Boat (Season 2 – 4 episodes) Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)
 8/1 Fresh off the Boat (2) Tokyo Story (1953)
 10/1 Fresh off the Boat (2) Split (2016)
 11/1 Fresh off the Boat (7)
 12/1 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (4) Haywire (2011) The Family (2013) We’re the Millers (2013) Edge of Seventeen (2016)
 13/1 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2) DC Titans (3) Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
14/1 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2) DC Titans (2)
15/1 Colette (2018)
16/1 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2) DC Titans (2) 
17/1 Battlecry of Freedom: The American Civil War James M McPherson (1990) 862p
18/1 Riverdale (1) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) DC Titans (4) 
19/1 Lincoln (2012) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Catwalk: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit (2018) The Punisher (Season 2 - 3) Blood Simple (1984) A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009)
20/1 Sunday Politics (1) BATMAN: THE ENEMY WITHIN (Telltale games - 1 episode)
21/1 BATMAN: THE ENEMY WITHIN (2 episodes)
22/1 BATMAN: THE ENEMY WITHIN (2 episodes)
23/1 Fresh off the Boat (2) Attack the Block (2011)
24/1 Riverdale (1) Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2019)
25/1 Icarus (2017)
26/1 Blue Brothers (1980) Funny Ha Ha (2002)
27/1 Shadows (1958) Fresh off the Boat (1) Vice (2018) Friends From College (Season 2 - all 8 episodes)
28/1 Destroyer (2018)
30/1 The Joy of Tax: How a fair tax system can create a better society Richard Murphy (2015) 283p Fresh off the Boat (2) Inside Man (2006)
31/1 Riverdale (1) Do the Right Thing (1989)

Star Ratings

For posterity I have established what my star ratings represent. I hate half marks and I'm not a massive fan of marking something out of 10. It's a 5 star rating or nothing.

Also I've succumbed to tracking my film watching on Letterboxd. This is only for films so I'll still keep my lists for books/tv/other activities. Cataloguing everything seems to instil some satisfaction within me. Let's see how long I manage to keep it up.

* - 1 star - hated it, would never want to watch again
** - 2 stars - didn't like, wouldn't watch again but had some merits
*** - 3 stars - liked it, wouldn't feel compelled to watch again (but never say never!)
**** - 4 stars - liked it, would want to watch again
***** - 5 stars - loved it, would watch again lots

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