I have been watching a lot of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video recently. One of the best things I have watched in the past few weeks in the new Amazon Prime show Upload. I normally pick shows that you can watch on Netflix for these posts, but I really enjoyed this show.
So I hope you all are surviving spending time at home. I am starting to get stir-crazy (and I’m still going into work). I can’t imagine how I would be if I wasn’t able to go to work. One way my husband and I have been passing the time is by watching Netflix. This afternoon we watched one of our favorite documentaries on Netflix, Sour Grapes.
If you have been reading the CraftEaze blog for a while, you probably have noticed I have a soft spot for Netflix movies. Earlier this summer Netflix came out with a new movie that I thought was great. This movie was “Always Be My Maybe”
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Sometimes it is nice to have a Friday night at home. It could be that you had a long week and you don’t really want to be around a crowd tonight. Sometimes it can be because you aren’t feeling 100%. Other times it can be nice just to hang out with your significant other on the couch relaxing.
Tonight is one of those type of Friday nights for me. I have been battling a nasty cold the second half of this week so I decided to have a laid back night since my fiancé is also out of town. So I have my Yeti 30 oz tumbler full of water, Hulu/Netflix on the TV, and Panera’s tomato soup to help me bounce back to normal.
The following movies are perfect for a low key Friday night. All are currently on Netflix (as of March 15, 2019).
So this was actually the movie I watched this afternoon once I got home from work. This movie is the perfect low key Friday night movie because it is lighthearted and you have probably seen it a hundred times. So if you fall asleep during the middle of it, you can easily know what’s going on when you wake up.
I enjoy watching this movie because Elle Woods breaks all sorts of stereotypes. In the beginning, everyone thinks she is just a dumb blonde that decided to go to law school on a whim. As the movie progresses, she grows more sure of herself and proves everyone wrong.
Have you heard of the Fyre festival? If you haven’t, here is a quick rundown. Billy McFarland came up with this idea for a music festival on a Carribean island. He used social media and influencers to promote this music festival, but it was all too good to be true. This documentary tells the story of this failed festival from the start to the disastrous end. After you watch this documentary on Netflix, be sure to watch the other Fyre documentary on Hulu. It gives a slightly different perspective.
Maybe you want to relive a part of your childhood this Friday night. Did you know that It Takes Too is on Netflix?? This is the perfect movie to help remind you of a time when your biggest worry was what to put on your birthday list and a time when Mary-Kate and Ashley were the twins you wish you were friends with.
This movie is about two girls who are identical that switch places. One girl, Alyssa, has a rich dad who is engaged to a terrible lady. The other girl, Amanda, is an orphan. The two girls switch places to stop Ashley’s dad’s wedding. In the process, Ashley’s dad meets Amanda’s caseworker. Will it all work out for the two girls? Will everyone live happily ever after?
National Treasure is a great movie to watch as a family on a Friday night. It may not be historically accurate, but it is fun watching the characters travel through our nation’s capital, Philadelphia, and New York City trying to find a treasure. Be sure to eat some popcorn with this movie.
Dumplin’ is a Netflix original movie that came out last December. It was aimed more towards teens, but I found it enjoyable. Willowdean is the plus-size daughter of a former beauty queen (Jennifer Aniston). Her mom also happens to be the director of the local pageant. Willowdean feels that her mom doesn’t understand her. She along with a few other outcasts sign up for the pageant. As the movie progresses, Willowdean becomes more confident in herself and the relationship with her mother improves.
This movie is a good movie to watch on a girls night while drinking wine. I like to drink wine out of a stainless wine glass like this. It keeps the wine nice and cold throughout the movie.
So this is a documentary that is a little out there. It is about the flat earth conspiracy theory. This documentary talks to some of the most influential people in the movement. There is a guy on this documentary that makes some really cool woodworking projects including a motorcycle made of wood. Now, I just have to clarify that I do not believe in the flat earth conspiracy. I just find the movement fascinating and could see how some people can be convienced that the earth is flat.
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I found this show on Netflix during the coldest part of January. It all started when my fiancé and I entered another dreaded Netflix show hole. We had finished Arrested Development and didn’t want to start The Office or Parks and Rec for the hundredth time. It also happened to be freezing and the ground was covered in 6″ of snow. Because it was so cold and snowy, the preview captured my attention right away.
Now this preview looked so warm. Like there was green plants in the preview and even a pool that looked so inviting. So I started the first episode. I was immediately drawn in.
So this is a reality show from Australia. There are ten couples who all rent their houses as Airbnb. They travel all around Australia to visit each other’s houses and they rate their experience. Some of the houses are near the beach, one is in the Australian wine country, and a couple of other houses were inland but had cool experiences.
The ten couples are broken into two groups. The first group of 5 couples travel to each others house and vote on the best house. The second group also consists of 5 couples who vote on the best house in their group. The two winners then compete in a grand finale which consists of two other couples from each group. So the couples who been to the house before can see if they made any changes to improve, which is balanced out with two couple (+ the other winner) who is seeing the house for the first time.
Each episode focus on a house. Each couple also leaves a welcome pack that contains activities in the area. Some of these activities include going to the beach, a crocodile watching trip, wine tasting, and a visit to a sewer treatment plant. Obviously, some activities are more appealing than others.
One of the coolest aspects of the show is that they are actual vacation rentals. Some of the houses have their own websites, others are on Airbnb or Bookings.com. This Distracify post
My favorite couple was the couple whose house was the focus of the first episode. I like how the outdoor area of their house was set up with an awesome pool and seemed very relaxing. My fiancé and I felt like we had the most in common with them and they were fairly kind to the other contestants. Like they would have been a great couple to go on a wine tasting adventure with. You can find their rental here.
There were two houses that really stood out for me. The first was the home in Barossa Valley. It was in the heart of wine country and was decorated in 1950s Americana decor. The second home was a houseboat. A brother and sister own and operate this houseboat. What is really cool is you can request wakeboarding lessons during your stay from the sister. She is a professional wakeboarder. You can also take the houseboat up and down the river during your stay.
Unfortunately, since this is a reality show some of the contestants are a kind of mean toward each other. Some of the couples are more villain like then a friendly travel companion. But this isn’t a huge deal breaker for me since it was so cool seeing a place I have never visited.
I noticed that they are currently working on a second season according to the Australian press. Hopefully, we will be seeing more episodes in the future!
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So I don’t normally like to write back to back blog posts on a similar topic, but the recent announcement from Elon Musk and SpaceX made me excited. Earlier this week he announced the first civilian that will be traveling into space.
So in honor of this announcement, I decided to make a list of my favorite movies that are out of this world. Some of the movies on this list are older and some are relatively new. These movies can also help you get ready to see First Man which is coming out soon. I saw the trailer last night on HGTV and it looks really good. These movies are perfect to watch while curled up on the couch with a glass of wine or working on an outer space themed project. One of my favorite outer space projects I have ever worked on was this outer space blanket by Whistle and Ivy. The pattern is very easy to follow and fun to make.
Apollo 13 is one of my all-time favorite movies. It was one of the movies that got me interested in engineering. This movie is about the true story of NASA mission Apollo 13. The crew of Apollo 13 were supposed to land on the moon, but an explosion happened in space and the mission changes to one of survival and trying to get back home.
Against all odds, the astronauts make it back to earth safely. The movie goes back and forth between the astronauts and mission control. It also focuses some on the wives and family of the astronauts. The movie shows who everyone worked together to get astronauts home.
One of my favorite scenes is when engineers at mission control are given a box of items and they are told to make the spare air filter fit into the system. I think this is one of the most accurate descriptions of an engineers job. Engineers have to find a solution to problems within all sorts of parameter ranging from cost to materials.
This is one movie that my boyfriend and I actually went to the theater to see when it came out. It is also a movie that I watch every time that I see it on tv. Mark Watney is an astronaut for NASA goes on a mission to Mars. While on Mars a storm causes him to be left by his crew who believes he is dead.
After the crew leaves and the storm is over, it is revealed that Mark is really still alive. Mark is a scientist that studies plants and starts to grow potatoes on Mars for food. He eventually gets into contact with NASA and they try to figure out a way to get Mark home.
The movie is based on a book by Andy Weir with the same name. I borrowed the book from a coworker and enjoyed reading it.
Space Camp was one movie that I watched a lot growing up. My sister and I would watch it almost every month. We both thought it would be cool to go to Space Camp based on this movie.
Space Camp tells the story of a group of campers. The leader of their group is an astronaut who wants to go into space, but she is passed over several times. Her group campers include the typical 80s teen movie characters including the bad boy, an ambitious girl, a nerd, the athlete, and popular girl.
The nerd in this movie is actually younger than the rest of the group. He talks he counselors into letting him stay in the teenage camp because he has been to the junior camp so many times. Since he is younger, he doesn’t really have any friends his age. He ends up befriending a robot, just like in his mind Luke Skywalker.
The movie shows their time at camp up until the final days of camp. During the final days, they are allowed to sit inside the shuttle. While the group is on the shuttle, a computer malfunctions and sends the shuttle to space. At that point, the group has to figure out how to get back to earth.
I know that I included October Sky in my favorite book to movie list, but it also makes the list of my favorite space-related movies. I also like that it is based on a true story and it is a story many in rural areas can relate. When I watched this movie in middle school/high school, I really related to Homer. I knew that I want to go to college and become an engineer. Some of my classmates didn’t understand why I enjoyed math and science so much. They didn’t understand why I liked to learn more about these subjects in my free time.
This movie tells the story of Homer Hickam. Homer grew up in a rural West Virginian coal mining town. He knows he doesn’t want to mine coal the rest of his life. After Sputnik is launched, he becomes interested in learning how rockets work and how to make the best rocket.
After a few mishaps, his teacher encourages him to enter the local science fair and gave him books to read about rocketry. He ends up competing in the national science fair where he receives many scholarship offers for college. Homer ends up graduating from college and eventually gets a job at NASA where he works with the space shuttle program.
So I am going to start off by saying this movie is not scientifically accurate, but it is still entertaining. It is another movie that is on FX all the time. I watch it frequently when I see that it is on and there isn’t a football game or new show on.
Armageddon is a movie about a giant asteroid on track to hit earth. NASA is forced to call upon an oil driller whose patent for a drill they are trying to dissect. NASA is unable to figure out how to make the drill work, so they ask him to create a crew that he trusts to go to space along with the astronauts. The goal is to blow up the asteroid to prevent it from hitting earth. He creates a crew of various misfits that do not really fit into the traditional astronaut mold.
Will the crew succeed in blowing up the asteroid and will everyone get back alive? Will the young couple get the chance to live happily ever after?
I have watched this movie with my parents several times. It stars Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner. Like many of the other movies in this list, it was filmed and released prior to the Columbia disaster. It seems after the Columbia shuttle disaster the number of outer space movies decreased greatly up until the last few years.
So the movie begins with a Russian satellite has veered off its course. During an investigation, NASA discovered that the navigation system was from an American design. As a result, NASA tries to convince the developer to go into space to help stop the satellite. Unfortunately, the developer of the system is a retired Air Force pilot who is still mad that he was told he would be going to space when NASA was formed, but never got the chance too.
NASA finally convinced the retired pilot to go to space, but he had one condition. His teammates (who are also really old) have to be allowed to go too. There is a lot of old verse young dynamics in this movie as the current NASA astronauts see the pilot and his team as only old men.
Arnold’s (the classmate who always has something go wrong) cousin Janet is visiting the school. She is going on and on about how her grade school is better than Arnold’s until Miss Frizzle takes the class to outer space to learn about the planets.
This episode does referencePluto as a planet, but other than that it is a good introduction to the solar system for kids. However, the Pluto controversy is back again. I recently read this article that says some scientist believe it should have never been downgraded. You can watch this episode on Netflix (Season 1, Episode 1).
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Two of my favorite hobbies besides crafting are reading and watching movies. Both hobbies provide me a way to escape the stresses in my life and be transported to another time or place. One thing I have noticed, that many time movies are based on books. Sometimes these adaptations are terrible, but other times the movie helps bring the book to life.
So let’s grab a snack or a glass of wine as I tell you about my top 8 book to movie adaptations! Be sure to also check out my other movie list: 7 Movies That Are Perfect For Girls Night In.
So the start of this book and movie is very sad. Holly’s husband Gerry has recently died at a very young age because of a brain tumor. She is extremely heartbroken because the love of her life has died and she is not even 30 yet. On the eve of Holly’s 30th birthday, she receives a letter from Gerry. It turns out that Gerry wrote several letters to be delivered to her at various times to help her get over his death. These letters help bring Holly out of her comfort zone and to start to live again.
The book and the movie varied a little, but I enjoyed both. Be sure to check out the book and the movie. This book would be a great book to read with your friends as a book club. The movie would be a good movie to watch with your friends as you drink wine in these stemless glasses.
If you are looking for a movie that you can watch with your kids and possibly get them to read a book, then you should check out The Princess Diaries. The Princess Diaries is about a teenage girl, Mia, who meets her long-lost grandma and finds out that she is actually royalty. The movie shows what happens when she is expected to make the decision to become a princess. This was Anne Hathaway’s breakout role and also starred Julie Andrews.
So The Princess Diaries is actually a book series written by Meg Cabot that consists of 10 young adult books. I remember reading these books when I was younger. There is also an additional book for adults called Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel that talks about Mia’s life after college that you can read while your kids read the young adult series.
This is one of my favorite science movies and books. This movie is based on the memoirs of Homer Hickam. Homer Hickam was born and raised in a rural coal town in West Virginia. Homer knew that he didn’t want to spend his life working in the coal mine. He was impacted by the launch of Sputnik to learn more about rocketry and engineering. He was encouraged by his math/science teacher to enter the local science fair. The movie follows his struggles as he works to win the science fair.
Homer Hickam worked at NASA and was responsible for training astronauts for science payloads and extra-vehicular activities (EVA). He helped train the astronauts who repair the Hubble Telescope. His memoir Rocket Boys was a New York Times Bestseller in 1998 and was the inspiration for the movie.
So my boyfriend would be really upset if I didn’t include Holes in this list. Holes was one of his favorite books and movies growing up. I also read Holes as a child and enjoyed to book. I sometimes felt that I related Stanley greatly because I can be really unlucky. This movie is also another movie that you can watch with your kids (if you have kids) to get them interested in reading.
Holes is about a boy named Stanley who is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. He is sent to a juvenile correction center where he has to dig a hole every day. So plan your next movie night with Holes with popcorn that you can make and eat out of this bowl.
A Walk To Remember is one of my favorite Nicholas Spark’s novels that was made into a movie. My next statement is bound to be a little controversial, but I am not afraid to admit that I like this more than The Notebook.
It tells the story of a troubled high school student (Landon) whose life is turned upside down when he falls for the preacher’s daughter (Jamie). What he doesn’t realize is that she has a secret that is probably going to limit the time they have together.
There are several differences between the book and the movie, but the movie stays true to the book for the most part. The book is told from the point of view of Landon several years later while the movie takes place in modern times. Be sure to have plenty of tissues when you are reading the book or watching the movie.
The Hunger Games was one book series that a read in one weekend a few years back. I love dystopian novels and this is a very dark dystopian world. The movies followed the storyline pretty well. This series is also a good introduction to dystopian novels.
In this dystopian world, there are 12 districts and capital. Every year, each district is required to send one male and one female teenager (called tribute) to a fight to the competition that is televised. Katniss’s young sister is chosen as one of District 12’s tributes. She does the most selfless thing possible and volunteers in her place.
There are 3 books in the series and 4 movies. The last book is broken up to 2 movies. My one complaint about the movie version of the books is what Peeta looks like and it isn’t really a big deal. I always pictured him as a short kid that was slightly overweight. Maybe I thought he looked like this because his family was the local bakers.
I remember reading this book in high school and watching the movie with my mom on several occasions. This is such a heartwarming story. It is one that I am sure that you will enjoy.
Novalee is a pregnant 17-year-old who is moving across the country with her boyfriend. While they are in Oklahoma, he leaves her at a Wal-Mart. She lives in the Wal-Mart for a short time and even has her baby there. This book and movie tell the story of how she starts her life over in this small Oklahoma town and the people she meets. Some of her new friends include a local nurse, a librarian, a photographer at the Wal-Mart, and an elderly woman named Sister Husband.
This book is easy to read and would be great to read at the beach on vacation or on an airplane. The movie is another one that would be great to watch with your girlfriends. Or better yet, you can watch this movie while working on a CraftEaze box.
Christmas will be here before you know it, and one Christmas movie that I have watched the last several years is Christmas with the Kranks. This movie is heartwarming and perfect for the holidays. I feel a lot of people can relate to the Kranks in the movie at one point or another.
Luther and Nora’s daughter has left for the Peace Corps and will not be home for Christmas. They do not want to celebrate without her, so they decide to skip Christmas and go on a cruise instead. As you can guess, hilarity occurs as their neighbors, friends, and coworkers find out that they are skipping Christmas.
Christmas with the Kranks is based on the book Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. This is one of the movies you can watch year after year around Christmas. Maybe, just maybe it might also convince you that you need to buy your own giant Frosty.
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Oh, Netflix suggestions they can be a hit or they can be a bust. I Give It a Year was a Netflix suggestion for me a few years ago, and I consider it a hit! I have seen this movie several times since it was initially suggested to me, and I have enjoyed every time I have watched it.
I Give It a Year is a romantic comedy that centers around a young couple’s first year of marriage. Nat is a highly ambitious advertising executive. Some of her friends and family members think that she is much better than Josh and they aren’t really a good couple. Josh is a writer who is more of a go with the flow kind of guy.
The movie begins with a quick musical montage of Nat and Josh’s dating relationship. It shows them meeting at a party, getting engaged in Vince a short time later. After the montage, we are invited to their wedding. Their wedding day is filled with mishaps from the priest unable to get through the vows without coughing to the best man’s super embarrassing speech. We don’t get to see the honeymoon after the wedding, but references/pictures from it come up time to time.
After the wedding and honeymoon, Nat and Josh try to adjust to married life. They meet with a lawyer to create a will, they have a dinner party with their friends, navigate the holidays, and they fight. One day at the advertising agency, a charming American (Guy) comes in looking for a new marketing campaign. One of Nat’s coworkers tells her to take off her wedding ring to get the business. This leads to many awkward situations, including one where Josh said he seems more like your type. During this time, Josh is trying the help Chole, his friend (and ex-girlfriend), navigate the difficult dating world. It seems Chole is still in love with Josh, but he doesn’t know. Will Nat and Josh make it to their first anniversary or will they break up? Will Nat choose Guy or Josh? Will Josh choose Chole or Nat?
This movie is a British comedy, so there is a lot of awkward situations. So if awkward situations aren’t really your thing, this movie would not be a good movie for you. I think the movie is hilarious and is the perfect anti-romantic comedy. Anna Farris plays Chole and is great as the lonely ex-girlfriend. Be sure to check it out on Netflix!
Are you looking for your next Netflix series? I don’t know about you, but I always have a hard time deciding what to watch next when I finish a series on Netflix. Sometimes the shows Netflix suggests you watch next are busts, but other times they really are hits. A few years back I had finished a series, and Netflix suggested Hart of Dixie. This is one of the times that Netflix was really spot on with their suggestion.
Hart of Dixie aired on the CW station. It was a romantic comedy/drama show that aired for four seasons. The first episode starts at a medical school graduation where we meet the main character, Zoey Hart. Zoey meets this old man who tells her if she ever needs a job, that she is more then welcome to join his practice in Bluebell, Alabama. However, Zoey really wants to be a cardio-thoracic surgeon like her dad and loves her New York lifestyle. Her dreams come crashing down, and she decides to take the old man up on his offer. She moves down to Bluebell, Alabama.
As soon as Zoey gets to Bluebell, she realizes that she doesn’t really fit in. The old man who offered her the job had died. The other doctor, Brick, seems to hate her, and his daughter, Lemon, see Zoey as a threat and treats her as such. There is a cute lawyer, George, who she is interested in, but soon finds out that he is dating Lemon. Her only friends are the nurse at the practice, the nurse’s niece, and a former football player who just happens to be the mayor, Lavon. Lavon allows her to live in his guest house, but she has to put up with Wade, another tenant who she finds annoying but attractive.
After a disastrous first week in Bluebell, Zoey is ready to leave and head back to New York. As she is getting ready to leave, she finds out that the old man has left here half of the practice because he was her biological father. She decides to stay because the life she knew in New York was not really what she thought it was. Over the next several episodes she learns more about her family and slowly adjusts to life in Bluebell.
Since Zoey is a New Yorker, there are interesting medical situations she finds herself in. In one of the first episodes, a kid comes in with a snakebite. She isn’t sure what type of snake bite him and goes in search of the snake. As a result, she ends up getting bitten by the same copperhead. Brick riducles her about this because he knew based on the old house the kid got bite in that it had to have been a copperhead. Another time tells a patient that he is dying of this rare disease, but in reality, he only has a tick bite. She slowly learns about ailments that seem to plague a small town.
She also runs into unusual social interacts in her new home. Lavon helps her adjust to her new lifestyle. Lavon invites her to take part in local activities like the Founder’s Day parade. Over time, she learns she needs to take part in local festivals and competitions to learn how to relate to her patients. She is a little stubborn about some of these changes, like for example who will cut her hair and refusing to make her own gumbo. Over the series, she becomes more and more at home in Bluebell.
So there are many things that I love about Hart of Dixie. First, it is enjoyable watching Zoey transition from the fast pace New York lifestyle to the slower more laid back life in Bluebell. It reminds me of the small town life I remember growing up. Secondly, it is a medical show like House and Grey’s Anatomy, but it isn’t as depressing or predictable. House and Grey’s Anatomy, seems to follow the same format every episode where there is a patient who needs help, they almost die, they are healed with a little bit of drama between doctors thrown in. Hart of Dixie is typically upbeat and there are storylines with many of the characters that are unrelated to medicine. Each episode is about 40-45 minutes long, but it is so easy to sit down and watch several episodes in one day I also love the characters. Even the characters I hated at the beginning of the series, I start to enjoy their development as the series progresses. It is also fun trying to figure out who Zoey will end up with. Will it be Wade, George, or some other handsome stranger?
The set of Hart of Dixie is very bright and colorful. It looks like a southern wonderland. It’s like if you take all of the southern bridal magazines you see in the checkout line at Micheals and combined different aspects to make the most perfect and cute set. Lemon and Annabeth wear the cutest most colorful clothes which contrast well with Zoey’s contemporary New York style. The playlist of the series is amazing. I also found many great songs on the show like this one:
So if you are in a rut trying to find something new to watch, you should check out Hart of Dixie!
<3 Jamie
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Sometimes it is nice to invite all your friends over for a girls night in. It’s an opportunity to break out the junk food and the wine while catching up. It’s also a chance to watch movies that you may not frequently get the opportunity to watch.
This is my personal top 7 movies currently on Netflix that are perfect for a girls night in. Some of the movies are added for nostalgia. Other movies are on the list because they are funny. And then there are some movies that are added because they are, currently, some of my favorite movies.
1. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Day
I remember this being one of the first movies that was a go-to at sleepovers in middle school and high school. So be ready for a nostalgic trip back to a simpler time! Andy is a magazine reporter who is writing a “How to Lose a Guy” how-to article. Ben is trying to win a bet that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 2 weeks. How will they be work through their conflicting objectives?
2. Leap Year
So this movie may hit a little to close to home for some of your friends who have been waiting patiently on their boyfriends to propose, but hopefully, the beautiful Irish setting and the Irish accents will help them enjoy the movie. Anna has been waiting on her boyfriend Jeremy to propose for some time. He is going to be in Ireland on February 29, so she decides to fly to Ireland to propose. Irish tradition states that if a woman proposes to a man on Leap Day, he must accept. She has many detours along the way to finding her very own happily ever after.
This is one of my favorite Netflix finds! This is a British comedy that also stars Anna Farris. Nat and Josh meet at a party and fall in love at first site. They then marry a couple of months later. They have very different personalities and many quirky friends and family members. Even the characters know that they are very different. At one point in the movie, Josh even mentions that he is a thinker and Nat is a doer. This movie follows the couple through their first year of marriage. Will they make it to their anniversary??
4. Candy Jar
This is a Netflix original movie that came out in April 2018. Bennett and Lona are two ambitious high school seniors. They are each other’s biggest competition in debate even though they go to the same high school. At the individual district competition, neither qualify for the state competition. It’s very important for these two kids to qualify to compete at state so they can add it to their college applications. So their last chance is to work together and compete as a team. Through the movie, the two students realize that they are more similar than they originally thought and slowly became friends.
This is one of the movies that I can watch it over and over again. Will is going through a divorce when he picks his daughter, Maya, up from school. That night Maya begs to hear the story about how Will and her mother meet. He didn’t want to tell her the story at first but eventually gives into her begging with one big exception. He wasn’t going to use the women’s real names. So Maya would have to figure out who her mom was. The movie is basically told in flashbacks of how he ended up in New York and eventually marrying her mom.
Jenna is a dorky unpopular girl in middle school. On her 13th birthday, she makes a wish to be 30. When she wakes up, she is 30 years old and living what she thinks is a perfect life. Over time, she realizes that the perfect life she thinks 30-year-old her is living isn’t quite what it seems. I remember watching this movie in high school when it came out, but it is a different viewing experience today. At that point, I was a dorky 14-year-old hoping that by the time I was 30 my life would be perfect. Today, as I am getting very close to 30 my life (for the most part) isn’t like the life I imagined at 14 and I’m totally ok with it. Like there is no way I can afford to fly in a helicopter to my 10-year high school reunion, nor would I want to because that is a huge waste of money.
7. When We First Met
This is another Netflix original movie that came out in 2018 that I found to be entertaining. Noah is hopelessly in love with his best friend Avery. They had chemistry when the first met at a Halloween party, but somehow he ended up in the friend’s zone later that night. He always wonders what went wrong, until he finds a magically photobooth that takes him back to that day. Will Noah and Avery finally end up together or will he figure out that the perfect person for him may not be exactly who he expects?
Now that you have a list of possible movies to watch, you can start planning your next girls night in!