Tag: Movies

2025 Viewing

Unlike my skimpy reading list for 2025, my viewing list for last year grew to over 4 handwritten pages. I distilled it down to 20 some movies and shows I watched, excluding sports. Here is my annual list.

The Last Of Us – series (it should have ended with the first season)

American Primeval – series (riveting, could watch again)

The Bikeriders – movie (we almost always enjoy Tom Hardy)

Gladiator 2 – movie (I know! But we both enjoyed it)

The Madness – series (Colman Domingo)

Grave of the Fireflies – movie (haunting, will stick with you)

Knox Goes Away – movie (Michael Keaton)

Wednesday – series (I watched reruns of the original Addams Family series as a kid and thought it was clever, then tiresome. Tim Burton lent his special touch to what I thought was worn out material, and made it enjoyable)

Lost In Space – series (same as above, minus Burton)

Manchester By The Sea – movie (reminds one of what good acting and storytelling can be)

Jane Mansfield’s Car – movie (directed by Billy Bob Thornton, it’s a quirky little film with some great actors involved)

Love, Death and Robots – series (I will continue watching this anthology series as long as they keep putting out new seasons.)

Black Mirror – series (same as above)

Black Rabbit – series (what has Jason Bateman become? Pretty much a must-watch actor, after this and his previous series Ozark)

Three Thousand Years Of Longing – movie (a fun fable staring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton)

X, Pearl and Maxxxine – movies (I started this trilogy by Ti West while watching Wednesday, curious about what else Jenna Ortega had acted in. That led me to the amazing Mia Goth.)

The UnXplained – series (hosted by the great William Shatner)

Adolescence – series (could be retitled “Seriously Messed Up Kid”)

Frankenstein – movie (most films by Guillermo del Toro are worth watching)

Into The Inferno – documentary (I will watch anything by Werner Herzog)

Pig – movie (Shelly and I are Nick Cage fans. We enjoy trying to figure out in which scene he will go crazy during his newest movie.)

How To With John Wilson – series/documentary (Uber nerd Wilson has presented a funny and astute view of the human condition, set in New York City)

Porco Rosso – movie (one of the few Hayao Miyazaki films I had not seen. Fun and funny.)

Hereditary – movie (creepy!)

One of my favorite search engines to find movies and shows is Just Watch, which seems to cover almost every streamer out there.

2023 Viewing

Here is a fairly complete hodgepodge of movies and shows that I watched this year, most of them with Shelly. There are so many streaming services that together offer so much content that when it comes to talking with other people about “what have you been watching lately” you usually find very few of you watch the same shows or movies. I did not give this list a star rating system; just bold if I liked it and would recommend it.

Triple Frontier (2019)

ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas (2019)

CCR Travelin’ Band Live @ Royal Albert Hall (2022)

Tulsa King, S1 (2022)

1923, S1 (2022)

Interception (2022)

Count Me In (2021)

The Gray Man (2022)

Blacklight (2022)

Bullet Train (2022)

Jim Jefferies: High & Dry, Bare, Freedumb (various years)

Craig Ferguson: Tickle Fight (2017)

The Man From Toronto (2022)

The Guilty (2021)

I Care Alot (2020)

Awake (2021)

Sea Power (2020)

The Gunman (2015)

Waco: American Apocalypse (2023)

R.I.P.D. (2013)

Troll (2022)

War Sailor (2022)

Kate (2021)

Dragged Across Concrete (2018)

AVA (2020)

Sneaky Pete S 1&2 (2017-18)

The Decline (2020)

John Mulaney – Baby J (2023)

Hold The Dark (2018)

Valley of the Dead (2020)

Champions (2023)

Inside (2023)

Beef (2023)

Inside Man (2006)

A Man Called Otto (2022)

The Adam Project (2022)

The Forgotten Battle (2020)

The Sandman, S1 (2020)

Manifest, S1-4 (2018-21)

Sweet Tooth, S1,2 (2021)

The Thing (2011)

Black Crab (2022)

Crimson Peak (2015)

Annihilation (2018)

Medal of Honor

65 (2023)

Russian Doll, S1,2 (2019)

Extraction 2 (2023)

Apostle (2018)

The Raid 1 & 2 (2011 & 2014)

Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)

Archive 81 (2022)

Oatstudios (2017)

Big George Foreman (2023)

Hard Times (1975)

Terminator 2 (1991)

Bosch: Legacy, S1,2 (2022-23)

Andy Warhol Diaries (2023)

Heart of Stone (2023)

The Umbrella Academy, S 1-3 (2019-22)

The Nice Guys (2016)

Dredd (2012)

Avengement (2019)

The Good Neighbor (2016)

Black Summer, S2 (2021)

Sly (2023)

The Last Duel (2021)

A Walk In The Woods (2015)

Arnold (2023)

Zulu (1964)

The White Buffalo (1977)

The Continental (2023)

Comes A Horseman (1978)

Reacher, S 2 (2023)

The Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)

Leave The World Behind (2023)

Reptile (2023)

To distill this list (starting from the top) into a few of my favorites I watched during 2023 I would pick:

CCR

1923

War Sailor

The Raid 1&2

The Good Neighbor

Black Summer

To find out where any of these are streaming I recommend Just Watch.

The Other Half

At the start of 2021 I decided to keep track of what shows, documentaries and movies I watched for an entire year, and this list is the total for the other half of 2021, from July through the end of December. The first half of the list can be found here.

The Tomorrow War (2021)

The Road To Wellville (1994)

Ball of Fire (1941)

Nobody (2021)

Centurion (2010)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Stella Dallas (1937)

J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the Sub Genius (2020)

Big Love – Entire Series

Goliath – Entire Series

Paycheck (2003)

Every Breath You Take (2021)

600 Miles (2016)

The Way of the Gun (2000)

Sweet Girl (2021)

A Night in Casablanca (1946)

The Book of Eli (2010)

May It Last: A Portrait of The Avett Brothers (2017)

Stevenson Lost and Found (2019)

Hindenburg: The New Evidence (2021)

Marley (2012)

Son of a Gun (2015)

Phantom (2013)

The Girl With All the Gifts (2017)

Gangs Of New York (2002)

Highlander (1986)

Misery (1990)

City Slickers (1991)

Death Race 2000 (1975)

Homeboy (1988)

Bad Reputation (2019)

Love, Gilda (2019)

The Paperboy (2012)

Days of Heaven (1978)

The Transfiguration (2017)

LBJ (2018)

Splinter (2008)

A Quiet Place (2018)

A Quiet Place 2 (2021)

Lady You Shot Me: Life And Death Of Sam Cooke (2019)

Tideland (2006)

Leave No Trace (2016)

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Hud (1963)

Captain Fantastic (2016)

I’m Not There (2007)

The Greasy Strangler (2016) (One of the weirdest movies I have seen)

The Mystery of Picasso (1956)

Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something (2020)

High-Rise (2016)

Blood on Her Name (2019)

Half A Year Of Viewing

At the start of this year I decided to keep track of what shows, documentaries and movies I watched for an entire year, and this list is the total for half of 2021, from January through the end of June. What struck me is how much I watched, which I wouldn’t have believed if not for the list. All of the shows and most of the newer movies we watched together while most of the documentaries and older movies I watched by myself. The bold entries are ones I would recommend watching.

Good Ol’ Freda (2013)

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2012)

Alone – Seasons 1-4

The Walking Dead Season 10

Guns Akimbo (2019)

Monsters (2010)

Yellowstone Season 3

Guys And Dolls (1955)

Warrior (2011)

Dial M For Murder (1954)

The Vast Of Night (2019)

The Hunter (2011)

Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)

Tales From The Loop Season 1

Bosch, Whole Series

Blindness (2008)

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

The High and the Mighty (1954)

The Rover (2014)

Fear and Desire (1953)

Echo in the Canyon (2018)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)

3 Days to Kill (2014)

We Were Soldiers (2002)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Vivarium (2019)

Nico, 1988 (2017)

The Strangers (2008)

Crazy Heart (2009)

Greenwich Village – Music That Defined A Generation (2012)

Gonzo – The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2016)

Sound City (2013)

Hunt For The Wilderpeople (2016)

The Guest (2014)

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

Breakdown (1997)

Desolation Center (2020)

The Artist (2011)

The Dead Zone (1983)

Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

The Aristocrats (2005)

A Place In The Sun (1951)

Unhinged (2020)

Marriage Story (2019)

Galaxy Quest (1999)

24 Hours To Live (2017)

Master And Commander (2003)

Mean Dreams (2017)

The Reflecting Skin (1990)

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

XX (2017)

High Noon (1952)

Parker (2013)

Wander (2020)

On Golden Pond (1981)

My Best Fiend (1999)

The Hunt (2020)

A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (2020)

The Odd Couple (1968)

Extraction (2020)

Army of the Dead (2021)

Unstoppable (2010)

Pet (2016)

Charlie Pride: I’m Just Me (2019)

The Last Resort (2019)

Tarnation (2004)

Nobody’s Fool (1994)

In a Valley of Violence (2016)

The Square (2018)

The Duellists (1978)

Coda (2013)

Father and Daughter (2000)

The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger (2010)