What I've Been Watching (Feb 2026)

 Oh no... I wasn't supposed to not update my blog for a month but I guess it just happened. Will not hopefully do that next month.

So. What did I watch this month?

Sunday 1st February  

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)

Welcome to films from the 1940s. Racism? Yes. Crazy face-cards? Yes. Sets so beautiful they make you tear up? Yes. On first glance Black Narcissus is a classic nun in a foreign country film ala The Nun's Story, where the beautiful nuns go to a poorer country and "fix" everyone by teaching them Chri
stianity. The thing about Black Narcissus is that it doesn't really work out that way for them at all and they end up straying very far away from their original mission in a tale of lust, under eye makeup and what not to do on the side of a big cliff. I can't excuse the racist aspects of this film but I feel that the film doesn't exactly praise those aspects either, making it a much better watch than other films of the era. The look of the film is so beautiful, I think it's worth watching if only for that and the last half an hour of craziness.

 

Thursday 5th February

Priscilla (Sophia Coppola)

This film was a pretty big disappointment for me. I like some of Sophia Coppola's other films - Marie Antionette and The Virgin Suicides but have felt confused by some of her newer works. With Priscilla I thought it would be different, unfortunately not. The film is beautiful. Beautiful clothes, wonderful shots of beautiful people and a beautiful soundtrack. But apart from the beauty in this film I barely felt anything for any characters, especially Priscilla. I found there was a huge disconnect between her character and the audience leaving me confused about her actions and wondering the whole time what she was thinking about. I found the set up of scenes weird - you'd see Priscilla think about something, not talking, and then she'd go do something and then it would move quickly on to the next thing with zero explanation. Maybe I'm being harsh but I think biopics can be wonderful - see Control or Walk The Line so I was just sad this wasn't so good.

 

 

Sunday 8th February  

A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) 

Powell and Pressburger strike again! My mum was watching this film and was about half way through until I asked what she was watching and was like omg I have been wanting to see this! So after her saying she was going to restart the film for me and me saying noo don't we ended up watching it together. Thank u mum. This film is like the question of whether love can save a life put to the test - literally. The premise is quite simple, a fighter pilot parachutes from his plane, minus a parachute and dies - at least he was supposed to! Miraculously he lands in the sea and is washed up on the shore alive to be found by the operator he was professing his love to on the phone before he jumped. It's all grand until the afterlife realise that they're missing a body and have to try and retrieve him at all costs. It's a wonderful philosophical time and worth everyone seeing!

 

Wednesday 25th February 

The Worst Person In The World  (Joachim Trier) 

I avoided watching this film for a loong time because I hate films about people making mistakes. That is not what this film is. Or is it?  We follow Julie through her adolescence and into adult-hood, she constantly changes her mind about everything (real.) from love to career. In an effort to find herself she instead finds comic book artist Aksel and we watch as they navigate their relationship through ups and downs, disasters and elation. The film is frustrating at times, but isn't life like that too? I thought the music in this was brilliant turning simple moments into music video like vistas. At times it brushes the lines between film and performance art making it an addictive watch. Simply this film is good if you want to think about death and stuff.

Rewatches

so. I saw Twilight in concert for my b-day!! hehe. It was really great to see it on the big screen and everyone was laughing and clapping at all the write moments. The orchestra were soo good too, ty to my sister for getting the tix :D I also rewatched Constantine this month and lost my mind again because it's just that perfect. I also finally watched the deleted scenes and honestly I get why they deleted them, I think the film is better making less sense lol. 

 

Any reccs? Let me know in the comments :) 

 

What I've been watching (Jan 2026)

 Didn't watch my first film this year until Sunday LOL but I guess we all gotta start somewhere. Since then I've watched a few more so I thought there's no time like the present to do a lil' film round-up for this month. I know I'll forget but I'm gonna try and do these monthly this year ^_^

Sunday 25th January

Conclave ( Edward Berger)  

Been wanting to watch this for a while now after everyone was raving about it, and so being me I watched it just over a year later, lol. Like probably most people who have seen it, the fact that I enjoyed it so much and wasn't bored was a real surprise. Obviously, I like films about religion but didn't think I'd be so fussed on a film about the pope, but actually it was a really riveting watch, barely feeling like the two hours went by at all! The main premise of the film is quite simple: the pope dies and so they have to pick a successor. Spoiler, the options are pretty bad, and so the main guy around the place, Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) attempts to sway votes into a direction that wouldn't mean that things would go back to the dark ages. The cinematography is great and makes something possibly boring into something really interesting. It got a 4 star rating from me!

 

Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)

Was clearly feeling a bit inspired on Sunday so thought I'd watch another clergy-based film from Ingmar Bergman. Winter Light has been on my list ever since I saw the film First Reformed, which is heavily based on it. I love First Reformed so much and have already seen Bergman's Through A Glass Darkly which I liked too so I had high hopes. And woah, this film is worth watching. The film begins in a rural church in Sweden that has a very small congregation. The priest is ill and depressed, and struggles to inspire hope in those around him seeking it. What follows is a set of highly emotional moments in which the priest attempts to find love within him for God and even the people around him whilst loosing faith in himself. I don't want to reveal too much but it really is a special film and sits nicely alongside Through A Glass Darkly which shares much of the same themes. 

“Beneath all my false pride and independent airs, I have only one wish: to be allowed to live for someone else.”

 

Monday 27th/ Tuesday 28th January 

Doubt  (John Patrick Shanley)

Had to put two dates on this film because I got half way and realised I had to get up early lol. Anyway, another film about the clergy. Your joking. Nope I really did it again. But this one has Meryl Streep in it so it's a win for everyone.

This one is about a Catholic school in NY in the 1960s and about how the principal of the school, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep) is suspicious of priest,(Phillip Seymour Hoffman). Not much else actually happens in it but the acting is great and Amy Adams plays a really sweet character so I enjoyed watching it. I found the films discussion on doubt vs religious obedience really interesting but it never really explored anything properly in depth and just kind of stayed with a pretty surface level message. 

 

 

Boy A (John Crowley)

No priests, no nuns, no popes. Finally. Instead Boy A has you screaming out of anxiety and then just straight up sobbing. Felt an urge to watch every Andrew Garfield movie after seeing Under The Banner of Heaven so here's another one. Boy A is about a man emerging from prison to start a new life after committing (possibly?) a horrific crime as a kid. I should of known this film was going to make me anxious, even the premise is fear inducing and watching it they keep teasing you with,, ooh its all gonna go wrong,,,. It's a short exploration on forgiveness a la Adolescent and really makes you question some truths about the world. Probably will never watch again because it's actually nerve-wracking but it was pretty good anyway. 

 

Here's to more movie watching! See anything good this month - let me know in the comments!