Dear Kids,

Since about 2014, we’ve been sitting down as a family and watching movies on a semi-regular basis. A little over 2 years ago (just before the Pandemic hit), we codified a tradion of having pizza and movie night (almost) every Saturday. I make the pizza, then we sit down and eat it while we watch a movie. Pausing the movie a thousand times is also part of the tradition and fun (yea, no so much on the latter, but definitely a lot of the former) as is me constantly shushing everyone so I can hear the movie. Sometimes, we have dessert, which usually consists of ice cream. And more times than not, we eat it like choranim (as Ima would say) — spoons in hand, we pass the containers around and eat directly from them.

After the movies, we always go around and rate them from 1 to 5. I keep track at Letterboxd, and you can see the (sort of) complete list below. In full transparency, there seem to be a bunch of movies missing that I know we saw. Also, I use Letterboxd for all my movies, not just the ones we watch as a family, so a few non-family-movie-night mvovies may have popped up in the list. Honestly, though, , will it really matter that I left Cars 2 or Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones off the list? I certainly hope not.

I really like this tradition, and it’s a lot of fun to spend Saturday nights with Ima and SBK in their papasans and SBR and SBE curled up with their heads on my shoulder as I sit between you on the couch. I know it’s only a matter of time before you’re too cool to want to watch movies with the family and going out on dates on Saturday nights will be your priority, but for now, it truly is the best day of the week for me, and I will always cherish the memories of us all being together and just sitting there watching movies and eating pizza.

I will do my best to keep this page updated every week so you know exactly what movies we watched and what we thought about them.

Love,

Aba

Movies We’ve Watched