{"id":2137,"date":"2026-01-07T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:08:06","slug":"movies-i-saw-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2026\/01\/movies-i-saw-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies I saw in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve put some of my highlights in <strong>bold<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Glory (1989)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Perfect Neighbor (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>One Battle After Another<\/strong> (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uncle Buck (1989)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Long Walk (2025) &#8211; a decent adaptation of Stephen King&#8217;s story<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Eddington <\/strong>(2025) &#8211; Is it comedy? Drama? Horror? Pretty much sums up what life in the US is like these days.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Lampoon&#8217;s Christmas Vacation (1989) &#8211; yup, we watch it every year!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life (1946) &#8211; this one, too!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A House of Dynamite<\/strong> (2025) &#8211; great film right up until the last few minutes&#8230;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Weapons <\/strong>(2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bring Her Back (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stiller &amp; Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Killers of the Flower Moon<\/strong> (2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keeper (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Animal House (1978)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Companion (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Thing (1982)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Funhouse (1981) &#8211; This is actually a pretty good horror movie. Watching it made me seek out and read the book by Dean Koontz.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stargate (1994)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sinners <\/strong>(2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gentlemen Broncos (2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A Real Pain<\/strong> (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Death of a Unicorn (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Warfare (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>STRAW (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Billy Joel: And So It Goes<\/strong> (2025) &#8211; Amazing documentary of the life and art of Billy Joel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Superman (2025) &#8211; ugh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Brutalist (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pamela, A Love Story (2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mickey 17<\/strong> (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Blues Brothers (1980)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Men Who Tread on the Tiger&#8217;s Tail (1945)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drive (2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Substance<\/strong> (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gladiator II (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wolf Man (2025) &#8211; ugh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Once Upon a Time\u2026 in Hollywood<\/strong> (2019) &#8211; I will never tire of this film!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Adolescence <\/strong>(2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fiddler on the Roof (1971)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nausica\u00e4 of the Valley of the Wind (1984)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anora <\/strong>(2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speak No Evil (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surviving Black Hawk Down (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Civil War (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heat (1995)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Conclave <\/strong>(2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Wild Robot<\/strong> (2024) &#8211; it&#8217;s a feel-good movie!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saturday Night (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We Live in Time (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Apollo 13: Survival<\/strong> (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dodes&#8217;ka-den (1970)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brainstorm (1983)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Princess Bride (1987)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve put some of my highlights in bold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about_me","category-movies","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}