Films are a massive part of my life, and always have been. My Mary Poppins VHS was played until it perished, my Pirates of the Caribbean DVD stayed on repeat for months and months, and Ash and I share a film collection so large that we cant fit any more storage into our bedroom and he has alphabetised boxes of DVDs in the attic. We’ve made a pact to stop buying DVDs and have signed up to LoveFilm to ease our space constraints. The amount of films we watch is varied and excessive, and I wanted to keep a record of them. So every month, this is what you’ll get.

Sunday 1st

• Stand by Me (1986) - Ash’s choice. I didn’t get it, must be a boy thing. Stephen King does write great stories, but I prefer Misery and The Shining.

Monday 9th

• Sid and Nancy (1986) - Delving into rock and roll history. Stick with it, it gets better at the end. Cameo from Courtney Love, but Gary Oldman as Sid Viscous is good.

Wednesday 11th

• Cowboys and Aliens (2011) - Harrison Ford is great, Daniel Craig is good, Olivia Wilde was in the OC, wasn’t she? Totally farfetched, but not half as bad as I was expecting.

Saturday 14th

• Underworld (2003) - An old favourite of mine, Ash’s first time. Kate Beckinsale in that black leather, swooon.

Sunday 15th

• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) - My first cinema trip of the year. Brilliant all over. Another great Guy Ritchie film.
• Halloween (1978) - Mike Myers has always scared the shit out of me. Still does.

Tuesday 17th

• The Last House on the Left (2009) - So not the haunted house story I was expecting. Love the twist.

Monday 23rd

• 127 Hours (2010) - Ash read this book last April when we were in Egypt, but hadn’t seen the film which we’d recorded from the TV. I watched it last year with friends, and liked it. I played The Sims throughout.

Wednesday 25th

• Frost/Nixon (2009) - Love Michael Sheen. Good pace to the film, kept someone who has no interest in politics interested. I did have a nap in the middle. Brrrr Nixon.

Friday 27th

• Limitless (2011) - 100 minutes of Bradley Cooper being great, because of THE best drug which makes everything look a bit yellower than before. Throw in some De Niro and you’ve got yourself a fast paced, drug fuelled thriller.

Saturday 28th

• Halloween II (1981) - I still hate Mike Myers, but he cant be as scary as in the first one because I managed to have a nap, and woke up as the credits started rolling. Ash assures me they killed him though…

Sunday 29th

• Grown Ups (2010) - What I expected to be ‘just another Adam Sandler film’ turned out to be ‘just another Adam Sandler film’ but with a wicked sense of humour, and lots of laugh out loud moments. Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade and Rob Schneider are all brilliant, and it definitely cheered me up on a dreary Sunday evening.

Monday 30th

• Thelma and Louise (1991) - “I’m in deep shit; Deep Shit, Arkansas.” Definately made me want a road trip - Route 66 next Summer?