Film Reviews & Movie Analysis

We’ve reached the end once more, and though I haven’t been writing movie reviews for quite up to a decade – which is a shame – it’s still nice to look back one last time towards the past. Continuing the format I started in 2018, I go month by month picking out my favourite Movie, TV Show and Book (extra favourites starred). See you on the other side!

Film

Stats. According to my records on Letterboxd – I watched 146 movies. The shortest movie I watched at 67 minutes was Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, and the longest at 209 minutes was The Irishman.

My lowest rated movies at 1/2 a star amounted to a whopping eight movies, doubling my four of last year. These shameful movies were; Cats, Let It Snow, From Paris with Love, Point Blank, Very Very Valentine, Hangman, The Drowning, Speed 2: Cruise Control and Pacific Rim: Uprising.

On a much happier note, my highest rated movies at a peak of 4 stars were: King Arthur Legend: Legend of the Sword, (seen before but bumped up from it’s previous 3 1/2 after a recent re-watch!), Nightcrawler, Batman: Bad Blood and Green Book

The Favourites
January – Green Book ⭐
February – Angus Thongs and Perfect Snoggings
March – Gone Baby Gone
April – Avengers: Endgame
May – Aladdin (2019) ⭐
June – 12 Angry Men (Rewatch)
July – Spider Man: Far From Home
August – Nightcrawler
September – Rent
October – Ready or Not
November – Frozen II
December – Little Women ⭐

TV

Stats. Using my ever handy TV Time app, I try to stay on top of logging my episodic binges throughout the year. According to the data gathered from the app I average 12.2 episodes per week and watched 606 episodes of television in 2019. It’s hard to break down what I’ve watched into months so here is a top 12 of my 2019 TV Watched List.

The Favourites
Luther (Season 5)
Titans
Baptise⭐
The Umbrella Academy
Curfew
When They See Us
Years and Years⭐
Sanditon ⭐
Seven Worlds, One Planet
Watchmen
Friday Night Lights ⭐
Dragon Prince

Books

Stats. Across 36 books I read a total of 12,038 pages. The first book I read in 2019 was The Help by Kathryn Stockett, and the last was War and Peace (The Epic Masterpiece in one sitting) by Joelle Herr.

The shortest book I read at 60 pages was another Oscar Wilde – Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast and the longest was Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi at 531 pages.

The most popular book I read – also read by 2,59,146 others was The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, and the least popular, read only by 2,081 people was Diamonds Are Forever by Michelle Madow.

The Favourites
January – The Help by Kathryn Stockett
February – The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ⭐
March – The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
April – My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite ⭐
May – [Didn’t finish any books this month]
June – [Less than average books read this month]
July – [Less than average books read this month]
August – [Didn’t finish any books this month]
September – [Less than average books read this month]
October – Killman Creek by Rachel Caine ⭐
November – [Less than average books read this month]
December – The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory

2019 didn’t quite go down the way I wanted in terms of generating content for my blog (and reading), and I didn’t hit the targets I set out for myself at the start of the year. However I’m not disappointed. Other avenues that took priority flourished as a result of the sacrifice in reducing the amount of television and film I was able to watch and therefore review.

I’m a goal setter so with a new year comes new targets, and a thought or two I think I’ll share is, firstly, remember to be flexible as we have no idea what rocks are coming up in the river that we need to flow around. Secondly: don’t hand out five stars too liberally!