Top 10 – Films I Caught Up With in 2018

Throughout 2018 I managed to catch up with 48 older films and have decided to put together a top 10 list out of those films. You will be probably be quite surprised that some of these films I did not see until recently as some quality films. Always good to set yourself a challenge to catch up. I am happy that I managed to get 48 first time watches of films that does not include new cinema releases. With the films I have chosen for my top 10 list I pretty much was left wondering why I had never seen the film before!

Here are the 10 films that have made my list (in no particular order) . . .

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Zombieland (2009) Review

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An outbreak of a virus sees a shy and awkward student trying to get back home to Ohio to see if any of his family have survived. On the way he teams up with tough guy Tallahassee who is searching for the final Twinkie! Then add in a pair of sisters who are trying to get to an amusement park as rumour has it that it is zombie free!

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The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) Review

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Walter Garber just happened to be working on dispatch on the New York City subway when armed men led by Ryder hijack a train and he ends up becoming the negotiator and the only person Ryder will speak to and trust.

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Adventureland (2009) Review

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In the summer of 1987, James Brennan must take a ‘nowhere job’ at a local amusement park after graduating college and finding out his parents cannot fund his summer trip to Europe or his post-grad courses the following year! He is about to have a wake up call into the real world . . .

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Nowhere Boy (2009) Review

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The early years of John Lennon focusing on when he started to get into music as a teenager and his relationship with his Aunt Mimi who raised him and his absent mother Julia. Trying to deal with everything life is thrown at him, told at school he is going nowhere.

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Nativity! (2009) Review

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Paul Maddens’ life did not really go in the direction he was expecting and his long time girlfriend  Jennifer leaving him to pursue a career in LA was the final straw, he hated himself, his life and his job as a Primary School teacher. Everything is about to get worse when he is in charge of this years Christmas Nativity Play and promises that Hollywood are coming to watch and record it!

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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (2009) Review

An emotional drama about a woman Emilia (Portman) who after having an affair marries the man after he gets a divorce and has a hostile relationship with her stepson due to his mother’s influence.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) Review

Lisbeth Salander a computer hacker and disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist form an unlikely partnership in an investigation into the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, 40 years earlier.

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Goal III (2009) Review

The third installment of the Goal Trilogy see’s us travel to Germany for the 2006 World Cup, with focus on three players. Santiago Munez (Becker) the focus of the first two films is in the Mexico squad, while his two Real Madrid teammates Liam Adams (Feild) and Charlie Braithwaite (Gregory) are in the England squad.

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The Joneses (2009) Review

The perfect looking family move into a new neighbourhood but they have a little secret . . . the family role is just a well paid job. Product selling . . . Steve (Duchovny) his wife Kate (Moore) and their children Jenn (Heard) and Mick (Hollingsworth).

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