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June Movies, TV & Books Wrap-Up

Guys, forget the fact that last month was May… We’ve gone through half a year. 2018 is half over. I’ll leave that to sink in.   Ibiza (Netflix) Friends with Money (Netflix) In Bruges (Netflix) Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom (Cinema) Blade Runner (Sky) The Jane Austen Book Club (Netflix) Ocean’s 8 (Cinema) Pirates of the…

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Guys, forget the fact that last month was May… We’ve gone through half a year.

2018 is half over.

I’ll leave that to sink in.

 

Ibiza (Netflix)
Friends with Money (Netflix)
In Bruges (Netflix)
Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom (Cinema)
Blade Runner (Sky)
The Jane Austen Book Club (Netflix)
Ocean’s 8 (Cinema)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge(/Dead Men Tell No Tales) (Sky)
Road to Perdition (Sky)
Blade Runner 2049 (Sky)
Tag (Cinema)

I only really started the one new show this month, and that being said I’m a year late to the party. Classic me.

 

New Shows
Ackley Bridge (Season Two)
Our Girl (Season Four)
The Handmaids Tale (Season One)
Jessica Jones (Season One)

Completed Shows
Black-ish (Season Four)
Britain’s Best Home Cook
Person of Interest

Ongoing Shows
Once Upon a Time (Season Seven)
Castle (Season Five)

My favourite for the month was….The Jane Austen Book Club. This is mostly because I’m a massive Jane Austen fan (if you haven’t already figured by now). I’ve seen it before but this re-watch was once I’d finally read all the books which made it all the more enjoyable.

Over on Letterboxd I write a few lines in review for every movie, not just the ones I see in cinema if you want to check those out.

Least you forget I happen to also be an avid reader, and this month my goal was to read the last two Jane Austen books. As I knew that would only take me a week, I decided to just make it another classics month…. mostly.

 

Persuasion by Jane Austen
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Mary Poppins by P.L Travers
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (DNF)
Seduce Me At Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

My favourite novel for the month has got to be… Mary Poppins. It was just a sweet little kids story but mostly it was that the character of Mary Poppins is so different from the onscreen depiction we all know and love. She’s sassy, strict, and incredibly narcissistic – and I loved it. I shall be reading Mary Poppins Comes Back before the movie hits cinemas at the end of the year.

Check out my Goodreads for reviews and such.

Roll on July.

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Decade’s long Film and Television enthusiast and reviewer with the compulsion to tell you that I’ve also read the book.

3 responses to “June Movies, TV & Books Wrap-Up”

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    Wishful Thinking

    What did you think of Britain’s Best Home Cook?

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      JustJen

      I was surprised by how much I liked it. Possibly even enjoyed it more than Bake Off – it was just a lot lighter and I got some great recipe ideas! Did you watch it?

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        Wishful Thinking

        Yeah I did too. At the start I thought the set up of them living together without ever going home was strange but the show really grew on me & I loved how they became a proper family by the end. Also Claudia was great as per usual! I really hope there’s a season 2!! 😆

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