February New Movie Month 2022

It’s become a tradition that we spend most of February watching new-to-us movie month. We kicked off this month with a short list of about 100 movies that we wanted to watch. Due to the long running time of a few movies (Godfather extended editions and LOTR with the kids), we have a slightly lower-than-usual number for the month, but we did watch some good ones. Here’s what we watched:

The French Dispatch - Classic quirky Wes Anderson with amazing design and characters. I loved the story about the student protest the best.

House of Gucci - Oh This was so good! Lady Gaga was amazing. The fashion, the betrayals, the over-the-top personalities. I could not get enough!

The Godfather - I’ve never actually seen it and J convinced me to watch this month. Much better than I thought it was going to be. I enjoyed it. Tom is the best character!

Bad Boys for Life - Terrible, but made partially better with cocktails.

The Godfather Part II - I didn’t think it could get more serious than the first one, but it did. I loved seeing the parallels between Michael and Vito.

tick, tick… BOOM! - Andrew Garfield is amazing in this one! He clearly did his homework to play Jonathan Larson in this adaptation of Larson’s musical and life.

The King’s Man - There was a weird tone to this movie, but we enjoyed it overall.

The Godfather Part III - I actually really enjoyed this part of the trilogy.

Jesus Christ Superstar: Live Arena Tour (2012) - Completely missed this one. Tim Minchin is really the star of this production.

Fistful of Vengeance - A “sequel” to the television shoe Wu Assassins… Not great, but a couple of good scenes.

Black Friday - Terrible horror movie, but I loved it.

Parker - Turns out we’ve actually seen this, but neither one of us could remember anything about the movie.

The Royal Wedding - Terrible. This was not funny at all.

The Orange Years - This is my childhood in documentary form! Perfect capper for our month of movies.

Next Up on the TBR pile: