Everything I watched in 2025
At the start of 2025, I set myself a goal of watching 24 films over the year. I ended up watching 47! You can see each of the individual titles on my films page.
Some things that I think helped me exceed my goal:
- Flying to/from New York in January gave me lots of time to watch some classics (Citizen Kane, finally!) and helped build up some momentum
- Defaulting to watching films over TV series/Youtube, and being happy to indulge in "easier" films (Total Recall)
- Having an aversion to hitting my reading goal (24 books, read 12) and watching films to make me feel better
Having not really made much of a structured plan/film list, I thought it might be interesting to do some very light data analysis on the films I ended up choosing.
Films watched per month
January and October were the busiest months. July was the quietest with just one film (Kingdom Of Heaven, slightly disappointing - probably should have watched the Director's Cut).
By release decade
The oldest films I watched were:
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- To Catch a Thief (1955)
- Persona (1966)
TV series
I also watched 6 series across the year, all of them fantastic:
- The Wire S1
- Twin Peaks S1 (twice)
- Severance S2
- Veep S1
- The Last of Us S2
- The Studio S1