Movie Watch

With a daughter at university studying Film you would think that I might watch a lot of them and it’s certainly true that my movie watching has increased many-fold in recent years driven in part by her interest and recommendations. I’ve been keeping a list of the films I have watched for a few years now – here: Film list. But last year my film watching declined markedly and partly I would put this down to her absence. I had a bit of a flurry of activity in the summer when she was home but still only managed to see 12 films between January and November inclusive. That all changed in December, actually quite late on in December, when she came home from university. Just two days later I was watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi and that was followed rapidly by the excellent The Florida Project and then a host of other films over the holiday period. Things have continued in similar vain through January since she went back to university with six films bagged already including tonight’s viewing of Beauty and the Beast [not my choice – my elder daughter loves it]. I even have tickets booked for three films at the Arts Centre in February – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Darkest Hour and The Post. It seems that this year is going to be big year of film watching for me. In fact I might even finally get to watch The Shawshank Redemption…