🎬 2026 facts
In 2026, I logged 6 ratings, including 5 movies seen for the first time, and 4 movies seen at the theater.
My longest streak of movie-watching days was from 17 January to 18 January, with 2 movies watched.
My longest pause without any movie-watching was from 3 January to 10 January.
The oldest movie I saw was Gone with the Wind, from 1939.
2026 Classics League
A-rated movies I saw in 2026 which were released before 2026.
Sunday 18 January 2026 🍿
permalinkThis movie got me curious about whether it was accurate from a biographical standpoint. My research indicates that besides factuals (birth, marriage, whereabouts, etc), very little is known about Shakespeare's life. Maggie O'Farrell's novel (which the movie is adapted from) is therefore a work of imagination filling in the gaps of what could have been the significance of Hamlet for the English writer.
This is all fine be me, especially when it results in such a fantastic movie.
I feel guilty having criticized Paul Mescal's casting in Gladiator II when I didn't know his talent. Jessie Buckley is excellent too. Together they form the very touching duo which constitutes the base of this tragedy. The cinematography, the music, the story just locked me totally, culminating to this powerfully emotional ending.
This is the first time I heard someone literally sob in a theater. I wasn't far from it myself.