Film Musings

january movie round up

the movies I watched in January

One of my 2025 resolutions is to watch more movies! It’s going well so far and I had a particularly good January of excellent cinema.

I’ve started a letterboxd account to track what I’m watching and what I enjoyed.

Velow is my January diary round up – as you can see I liked everything I watched, but I loved A Real Pain and Dead Poets Society and thought that the two Adrien Brody vehicles I watched – The Brutalist and Predators – were equally good, and both just as good as Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris & Sean Connery’s James Bond slash fiction bonanza The Rock.

I also saw some other things:

To see my brief reviews, head to my profile here.

In January I was mainly streaming via Disney+ and watching irl at the Barbican (London’s) Parent & Baby screenings. Was travelling around and back from Ontario the first two weeks (and slept on the plane) so no movies then!

Let’s see how February fares!


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Forthcoming gigs include the following – there may/will be others:

3rd May 2026, 8.30pm: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER FULL LENGTH WIP at the Caxton Arms for the Brighton Fringe

6th May 2026, 7pm: Madame Isolde’s Crazy Zodiac Cabaret at the Caroline of Brunswick for the Brighton Fringe

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23rd May 2026, 8.30pm: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER FULL LENGTH WIP at the Caxton Arms for the Brighton Fringe

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6th June 2026, 5pm: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER FULL LENGTH WIP at Barbertown, Droitwich for the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival

27th June 2026: Twinkles Cabaret, London

14th July 2026: Poole, Dorset

9th August – 14th August: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER at The Street, Edinburgh, part of PBH’s Free Fringe

5th November: Isle of Wight

14th November: Welwyn


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3 comments on “january movie round up

  1. Druidinary's avatar

    Oh fun. I just gave you a follow on Letterbox (I’m Nicholas).

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