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My A level results came out a couple of weeks ago – two As and a C. Could have been worse but not what I was exactly hoping for and the C was a bit of a kick in the teeth because even though I was only short of a B by nine marks, I just missed my uni offer.

But not for me the sad face; I’m going to spend this year getting some work experience in my chosen field, do a little travelling and resit a couple of modules to push my grade up.

It’s not quite what it says on the tin but I’ll consider this goal done when/if I’ve finally got my B.

Recently I’ve watched two more films that I can now tick off my list.

Little Miss Sunshine

I fully undrstand now why everyone went on about this film -it was so good. I welled up a little bit at the end, it was such a lovely finish. The cast was impeccable; I especially liked Steve Carrell, or at least his character. The script was also beautifully written and I didn’t feel any of those horrible forced cheesy Hollywood moments films often have.

Princess Mononoke

Another excellent film but then what else do you expect given the director? Not my favourite of his films but still really good; the animation was all done beautifully and the plot was great and exciting, plus there was the usual range of fun, interesting characters. Definitely deserves to be top 250.

I love films! Of all kinds – cheesy, tearjerkers, war, action (except for horror, which I’ve never been crazy about). Primarily I’m a romcom girl, cliched I know but I’ve always held the opinion a film can be so bad that it’s good.

However at the moment I’ve seen quite a limited range so what I’d like to do is use IMDb’s top 250 and try and watch everything on it so that I have a good film grounding, if you see what I mean. Sorry if that sounds pretentious, I don’t mean it to be.

I’ve been looking over the list and I’ve only seen about 17%! Some of these films are amazing: Shawshank Redemption (best ending ever) and the Green Mile are certainly up there in my top ten, possibly even top five, though Green Mile makes me cry like a little girl. Once Upon A Time In The West was long but certainly worth watching, and the music was brilliant. I watched the Usual Suspects a little while ago, it was good (and Kevin Spacey is an AMAZING actor) but not really my thing, I wouldn’t watch it again. I loved Amelie but haven’t seen it in ages, I need to see it again soon.

What else? I loved Slumdog Millionaire, that almost goes without saying. I cried at the end of that, too (I’m a sucker for crying at the end of films, TV programmes and occasionally even books)... Hotel Rwanda was brilliant but difficult to watch, but so well done… The Sixth Sense is my favourite scary movie ever, Shaun of the Dead notwithstanding… Big Lebowski is hilarious, definitely worth watching, and Trainspotting has one of the most wonderful endings I’ve ever seen in a film.

I am ashamed to say I’ve seen most of the Disney on there but Toy Story has got to be my favourite. I’m not sure how The Curious Case of Benjamin Button got on there, I didn’t think it was that good tbh. Magnolia was long but brilliant, one of the few films I’ve ever liked Tom Cruise in (the other being Jerry Maguire, possibly my favourite film ever, and I can mildly tolerate him in Minority Report).

That’s a boring summary on some the films I have seen on this list. More coming soon. Hopefully.