I know it’s been a pretty sleepy year on the blog, with just the pair of monthly posts to keep things ticking over most every month — but it’s 2026 now, and that means it’s time for the annual extravaganza of posts looking back at the year just gone. Hurrah!

But first… well, I say “first”: the first year-in-review post has already happened. But the, uh, next first step is dedicated to summing up December.

#95 The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) — Failure #12
#96 Jay Kelly (2025) — New Film #12
#97 The Boss (1973) — Genre #10
#98 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (2014) — Rewatch #12
#99 Out of Sight (1998) — WDYMYHS #12
#100 Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) — Blindspot #12

• I watched seven feature films I’d never seen before in December.
• Five of those counted towards my 100 Films in a Year Challenge, along with one rewatch.
• That’s the third month of 2025 in which I failed to meet my minimum target of ten new films…
• …but at least I completed my Challenge!
• Having rewatched How to Train Your Dragon and a bunch of followup shorts back in May, I’d intended to immediately move on to its two feature-length sequels. 7½ months later… well, that’s not “immediately” by anyone’s standards. And I still only managed to find time for the first sequel — the third film (and, unfortunately, the Christmas-themed TV special that follows it) will have to come sometime in 2026. Hopefully not in another seven months, though.
• This month’s Blindspot film was Hayao Miyazaki’s cosy witchy anime Kiki’s Delivery Service.
• This month’s WDYMYHS film was Steven Soderbergh’s romantic heist thriller Out of Sight.
• From last month’s “failures” I watched The Men of Sherwood Forest and Wake Up Dead Man.

Favourite Film of the Month
Like much of 2025, I wouldn’t say this was a bad month by any stretch, but nor did a great number of films stand out. That means Rian Johnson’s third murder mystery starring Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, Wake Up Dead Man, easily walks away with this by being very good indeed.

Least Favourite Film of the Month
Similarly, no truly bad films this month, so I’m left debating which of the 3-star efforts was the ‘worst’. Looking back at my Letterboxd diary, I actually gave 3.5 to two of them, which leaves Fernando Di Leo’s poliziotteschi The Boss the unfortunate loser. I didn’t dislike it, but I didn’t think it was as good as the other two films in Di Leo’s ‘milieu’ trilogy.

The 20th year of 100 Films begins!

But before that, a bunch of posts looking back at the 19th year.