Movies watched in 2018

JANUARY

1. Romancing the Stone (Netflix) ****

2. ‎Mudbound (Netflix)(new) ****

3. ‎Alien: Covenant (Virgin rental) ***

4. ‎The Shape of Water (new) (Cineworld Unlimited preview screening) ****

FEBRUARY

5. ‎Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Netflix) ****

6. ‎Arrival (dvd) *****

7. ‎God's Own Country (dvd) *****

8. ‎Black Panther (Cineworld IMAX 3D) new *****

9. ‎Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Cineworld) new ***

10. ‎God's Own Country (dvd) *****

11. ‎DIFF: Black 47 (DIFF Opening Gala) new ****

12. ‎DIFF: Beast (Cineworld) new ****

13. ‎I, Tonya (Cineworld) new ****

14. ‎Phantom Thread (Cineworld) new ****

15. ‎DIFF: The Cured (Light House) new ****

16. ‎The Greatest Showman (Cineworld) new ***

17. ‎DIFF: You were never really here (Light House) new *****

MARCH

18. Lady Bird (Cineworld) new ****

19. ‎DIFF: The Third Murder (Cineworld) new (rescheduled) ****

20. ‎Thor: Ragnarok (Cineworld) (IMAX Film Festival) ****

21. ‎HHhH (Netflix) new ***

22. ‎You Were Never Really Here (Cineworld) *****

APRIL

23. The Dressmaker (recorded) new **

24. ‎Conan the Barbarian (2011) (recorded) new **

25. ‎Dark River (Light House) new ****

26. ‎Some Kind of Wonderful (Netflix) ****

27. ‎Red Sparrow (Cineworld) new ***

28. Love, Simon (Cineworld) new ****

29. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (plane to NYC) new ****

30. The Departed (plane to NYC) *****

31. Tulip Fever (US Netflix) new **

32. The Spirit of Christmas (US Netflix) new ***

33. The Greatest Showman (plane to Dublin from NYC) ***

34. Iron Man (dvd) ****

35. Iron Man 2 (dvd) ***

36. CATFA (dvd) ****

37. Avengers Assemble (Netflix) *****

38. Iron Man 3 (dvd) ****

39. Black Panther (Cineworld) *****

40. CATWS (blu-ray) *****

41. Avengers: Age of Ultron (blu-ray) ***

42. CACW (blu-ray) *****

43. Avengers: Infinity War (IMAX) (Cineworld midnight screening) new ****

MAY

44. Beast (Cineworld) ****

45. Michael Inside (Light House) new *****

46. Winchester 73 (tv) new ****

47. It Follows 3 (Netflix) new ***

48. Deadpool (Netflix) ***

49. Loving Vincent (Cineworld - CineMagic screening) new ***

50. Revenge (Cineworld) new ****

51. A Quiet Place (Cineworld) new ****

52. The Huntsman: Winter's War (Netflix) new  ***

53. The Jewel of the Nile (recorded) ***

54. Annihilation (Netflix) new ****

55. Solo: A Star Wars Story (Cineworld IMAX 3D) new  ***

56. Mad Max: Fury Road (Netflix)  *****

57. Deadpool 2 (Cineworld 2D) new ****

58. Jane Got A Gun (recorded) new  ***

59. Avengers: Infinity War (Cineworld 2D) ****

"I don't believe in it really... love. Do you?"

On Valentine's Day, the Dublin-based short film On Our Way will be streaming on the film's homepage. The film was written and directed by Fergal Rock, whose previous short Henry and Sunny saw him nominated for Best Director at the Feelgood Film Festival in 2010 and whose screenplay Calvin & Skye was a winner of the BlueCat International Fellini Screenwriting Awards. He also directed a very young Jack Gleeson in his short film Tom Waits Made Me Cry so he's partly to blame for the immensely slappable Joffrey in the brilliant Game of Thrones...

Henry and Sunny's cinematographer Orla Russell-Conway (winner of Best Cinematographer at the Underground Film Awards 2010 for her work on that film) and its star Dorothy Cotter (nominated for Best Actress at the Feelgood Film Festival for her role as a soap opera actress who falls for a romantic clown) reunite with Rock for On Our Way, with Matthew Keenan and producer Noni Stapleton rounding out the cast. The trailer can be seen here. The film also features original music, including a song by Billy Fitzgerald, former frontman of the excellent The Dead Flags (RIP).

The film is described as "a hopeful tale of missed connections and second chances". I'm pretty much a sucker for this kind of romance. I'm heading to a screening of the film in The Sugar Club on Sunday and will review it then.

Full disclosure: Dorothy Cotter's my cousin, Fergal Rock, Orla Russell-Conway and Noni Stapleton are friends of mine and Billy Fitzgerald is my brother. I've never met Matthew Keenan but he's cute, right?