Movies in the Queue for 2015

Our family has a penchant for movie watching. We all have our favorites and the genres we're normally attracted to (him: action and strong hero/epic theme, me: drama with class acting, honesty and redemptive stories, true stories), and although often when we sit down to watch it's something he wants to watch, I do throw in my trump card from time to time. Funny enough, almost every single movie I choose, we both end up liking, though I can't say the same for his choices....!

I keep a running list of movies (along with books) that I want to try to see every year. I hit between 50-75% of them, and I end up liking nearly all of them. This month I even crossed off a movie my friends have been bugging me to see for ages: The Princess Bride. I'm not sure how I escaped my childhood without seeing it, but it might have been the last cult classic of it's time that I wasn't familiar with. Of course I liked it! Here's what else I want to watch in 2015; click on the links for youtube trailers.

I'm really excited to see these movies, and I knocked a lot off my list in 2014. What are you excited to see this year? What movie are you rooting for to win Best Film of the Year? (My nod is going to Boyhood or Theory of Everything.)

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