I have recovered from my hernia repair surgery and will shortly this morning be returning to my day job. Frankly I am happy to do so. Medical leaves are never fun and getting back to work feels like real progress.

As we are nearing the end of the year, I thought I would do a quick look back at all the movies I watched in theaters during 2019. For the entire year I held a membership in AMC Theater’s subscription service A-List which allows for a flat monthly fee up to three movies every week. Using this and counting repeated screenings I went to AMC theaters 42 times during the year and I know of at least three films, Jojo Rabbit, The Good Liar, and Official Secrets, that I watched at other chains, bring my rough count to 45 theatrical screenings in 12 months. This does not count the Sunday trip to a local micro-theater the Digital Gym, which seats 48 people and my friends at SD Film Geeks, have been hosting a year-long once per month festival of Pre-Code movies.

I watched some amazing films this year including Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out, Hotel Mumbai, and others, there were simply fun movies such as Jumanji: The Next Level and Hobbs & Shaw, and a few disappointments including Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

All in all, this was a very good year for film, and I have high expectations for 2020.