And finally, the last of my annual year-end review blogs looks at the movies I watched in 2021…
I set a target for last year for a minimum of one film a week and I managed to keep to it. Despite lockdown-a-rama, I got out to the cinema a few times and kept healthy. Among my personal movie trends for 2021 was a binge-watch of old school giant robot anime and a number of movies about angry, well-armed women – a few of which seemed to follow in the footsteps of Nikita with the name-as-title conceit.
My top movie picks for 2021 were Korean junk-sci-fi Space Sweepers, murder mystery Knives Out and the dramatic 007 outing No Time to Die.
Here’s the full list:
Bad Boys For Life, Downhill, Alita: Battle Angel, The Hunt, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Space Sweepers, Long Shot, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Operation Odessa, Maria, The Great Hack, Mercury 13, Sniper: Assassin’s End, Skyfire, SAS: Red Notice, Mute, Knives Out, Into The Inferno, Rogue, Angel Has Fallen, Love and Monsters, Without Remorse, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Assassins (2020), Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, Rambo: Last Blood, Polar, DeLorean: Back from the Future, Helios, Sentinelle, Mobile Suit Gundam I, Kitty Love: A Homage to Cats, The Dish, Fast & Furious 9, Bill & Ted Face The Music, Black Widow, Furie, Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow, Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack, Den of Thieves, Anna, Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings, Wonder Woman 1984, Gunpowder Milkshake, Kate, No Time to Die, Free Guy, Red Notice, Eternals, 21 Bridges, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Close.
