A Year Unlimited

This film marks the start of a quadruple bill (although we did manage to take the kids to see Mary Poppins last night......still a solid 9). Film number one, Beau tiful Boy (our second Steve Carell film of the year) tells the familiar story of a young man who appears to have it all, but finds himself battling his demons. While his devoted Father struggles to understand 'everything'.  Beautifully acted and sensitively handled on screen, but a painful watch as it exposes the helplessness you experience when seeing those closest to you being dragged further and further away. The film jumps between the past and the present which makes it confusing but it doesn't alter the flow.  Despite the familiarities of the story, we felt it was told in a unique way and it was refreshing to see family genuinely supporting and attempting to understand, without blatant judgement. It was an emotional journey that we would be unlikely to see again, but it had a killer soundtra...

My favourite Christmas present this year was a Cineworld Unlimited card from my Mum. It was also her best Christmas present, to her self. It was made for us, however up til now our finances have made it impossible......but this is our year. Just so that you are in the picture, the Cineworld Unlimited card pretty much allows you to see all the standard films shown at the cinema for one fixed payment, thus allowing you to visit as many times as you like throughout the year, and we plan to take complete and full advantage of that. We thought it would be interesting to keep a record of the films we see and how we rate them, and whether we actually manage to get value for money from our cards. So, to get us started before the New Year even breaks we looked through the listings and were disappointed to see that there was very little on that took our fancy. We are assuming that this is a seasonal thing as usually we have the opposite problem and struggle to fit them all in, however one film w...