A film buff who lost his job due to Covid challenged himself to watch 1,000 films in a year - and smashed his goal. Phil Watts, 47, has revealed he watched a whopping 1,028 films in 2021 - catching up to seven movies a day to keep on target.
The movie fanatic set himself the goal after he lost his job in January 2021 due to the pandemic. By December 15, he had reached 1,000 with a screening of Gone With the Wind - but ended up going on to watch 28 more before the end of the year.
Phil, who is a film blogger and runs a side business converting old videos to digital, said he watched "everything from Zulu to Alien" with entries of all genres. And he ranked his favourite flick of all as the 1988 hit Cinema Paradiso.
