It's raining today and we have no plans so it looks like a day at home for us. It's not hard to fill in the time, with good books and Netflix but we're always reluctant to turn on the TV in the daytime. Still, we decided a while ago that we really needed to start watching movies more regularly and the only way to do that is to have more time in front of the box. We're inundated with stories about the latest films and most of them we haven't seen, mainly because we don't go to the movies and can't get ourselves organised to look them up elsewhere.
I made a particular effort over the last few days to identify what was available: scouring the internet for suggestions of the 'best movies of 2022', narrowing it down to the best of British or the best of Australian, and so on. We looked for movies that had favourite actors, like Helen Mirren or Bill Nighy. Narrowing it down further to get rid of the the ones that were too violent, or too obscene was more difficult but I eventually ended up with a list of 30 or so we thought might be worth an hour or two of our time. Some of them are on Netflix and others I find elsewhere.
We decided we would make it a priority to watch a movie a night.
We've been doing this for a week now and it's working pretty well. We've re-visited Ladies in Black, and The Dry, Blithe Spirit and Spooks, The Good Liar and Honest Thief. Last night we watched a movie called Bellbird, which I assumed was Australian but turned out to be set in New Zealand, about a farmer who was considering retiring but unsure whether his son could take on the farm.
I'm now looking forward to seeing Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis', maybe tonight. I hope it's like Moulin Rouge or Romeo and Juliet.
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