Stake your spot for your first round of viewings in 2013!

JANUARY:

1. Cosmopolis - 8/10
2. Mystery Science Theater 3000: "Star Force: Fugitive Alien II" - no rating
3. Torchy Blane in Panama - 5/10
4. Easter Parade - 6/10
5. Bad Channels - 5/10
6. Soylent Green - 7/10
7. King Boxer: Five Fingers of Death - 7/10
8. Jack Reacher - 6/10
9. The Phantom of Crestwood - 7/10
10. Django Unchained - 9/10
11. Mystery Science Theater 3000: "Operation Double 007" - no rating
12. Doughboys - 7/10
13. Wonder Woman (1974) - 5/10
14. Ip Man - 8/10
15. Compliance - 7/10
16. Torchy Gets Her Man - 6/10
17. To Rome with Love - 5/10
18. The Day of the Jackal - 8/10
19. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains - 5/10
20. Goon - 7/10
21. Torchy Blane in Chinatown - 4/10
22. Police Story - 5/10
23. Gangster Squad - 7/10
24. Searching for Sugar Man - 9/10
25. The Imposter - 9/10
26. Pina - 7/10
27. Torchy Runs for Mayor - 6/10
28. White Heat - 9/10
29. Torchy Blane...Playing with Dynamite - 6/10
30. Zero Dark Thirty - 8/10
31. Seven Psychopaths - 5/10
32. The Cold Light of Day - 4/10
33. The Last Stand - 6/10
34. Parlor, Bedroom and Bath - 6/10

My body is ready!


JANUARY

Django Unchained
Take Shelter
The Thin Red Line
Bird
Skyfall
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Part 2)
The Road
Zero Dark Thirty
Inception
Bug
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Death Race 3: Inferno

Right on AJ! Let the awesome continue for another year

Starting off the year on a good note:

January

1/1/2013: Before Sunrise: 10/10.*

*repeat viewing

noob asking how does this work

No worries. At the end of each month you post your monthly viewing, usually with some commentary explaining how you're ashamed of yourself for not watching enough movies or proud of yourself for watching so many movies. Then we all seeth at how AJ's totals make the rest of us look like dilettantes by comparison.

Nice. Thanks.

There is no A.J., only Zuul.

Something like 48 viewings last year. Kind of embarrassing what I see in a whole year you guys get to watch in a month. Hopefully this year will be better. Thanks for doing this again A.J./Zuul.

Already off to a decent start watching one the first day of the year...

January

1. First Blood
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Sudor Frio (Cold Sweat)
4. This Is 40
5. Robocop
6. Bernie
7. Looper
8. The Warriors

January 2013

Dark Passage (1947) (Daves) - 10/10*
Apocalypse Now (1979) (Coppola) - 10/10*
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Walsh) - 7/10
State of Play (2009) (McDonald) - 6/10
Jisatsu Sakuru/ Suicide Club (2001) (Sono) - 5/10
Ministry of Fear (1944) (Lang) - 6/10
Brave (2012) (Chapman/ Andrews) - 4/10
The Bourne Legacy (2012) (Gilroy) - 4/10
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (Nolan) - 6/10*
Il Grande Silenzo/ The Great Silence (1968) (Corbucci) - 8/10
Southern Comfort (1981) (Hill) - 5/10
The Expendables 2 (2012) (West) - 3/10
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) (Murnau) - 9/10
Kokaku Kidotai/ Ghost in the Shell (1995) (Oshii) - 9/10*
Django Unchained (2012) (Tarantino) - 7/10

* = repeat viewing
i = theatrical viewing

January's up for me. Final tally: 34 flicks. Wasn't feeling well for a lot of this month, but I think I did alright for myself.

JANUARY:

1. Cosmopolis - 8/10
2. Mystery Science Theater 3000: "Star Force: Fugitive Alien II" - no rating
3. Torchy Blane in Panama - 5/10
4. Easter Parade - 6/10
5. Bad Channels - 5/10
6. Soylent Green - 7/10
7. King Boxer: Five Fingers of Death - 7/10
8. Jack Reacher - 6/10
9. The Phantom of Crestwood - 7/10
10. Django Unchained - 9/10
11. Mystery Science Theater 3000: "Operation Double 007" - no rating
12. Doughboys - 7/10
13. Wonder Woman (1974) - 5/10
14. Ip Man - 8/10
15. Compliance - 7/10
16. Torchy Gets Her Man - 6/10
17. To Rome with Love - 5/10
18. The Day of the Jackal - 8/10
19. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains - 5/10
20. Goon - 7/10
21. Torchy Blane in Chinatown - 4/10
22. Police Story - 5/10
23. Gangster Squad - 7/10
24. Searching for Sugar Man - 9/10
25. The Imposter - 9/10
26. Pina - 7/10
27. Torchy Runs for Mayor - 6/10
28. White Heat - 9/10
29. Torchy Blane...Playing with Dynamite - 6/10
30. Zero Dark Thirty - 8/10
31. Seven Psychopaths - 5/10
32. The Cold Light of Day - 4/10
33. The Last Stand - 6/10
34. Parlor, Bedroom and Bath - 6/10

An 8/10 for Cosmopolis? You're the first person i've met who actually liked that film, I agree 100% with James review, it was a pretentious and tedious crapfest.

JANUARY 2013

1/1 - Killer Joe = B+
1/3 - The Truman Show = A
1/3 - Looper = B
1/6 - Dead Poets Society = A
1/8 - Dredd = B
1/13 - Beasts of the Southern Wild = B+
1/14 - Bullitt = A
1/19 - Arbitrage = B+
1/19 - Gridiron Gang = C-
1/19 - The Pact = C+
1/26 - The American = B
1/26 - Eastern Promises = B+

*rewatches

January

1/1/2013: Before Sunrise: 10/10.*
1/1/2013: Before Sunset: 10/10.*
1/2/2013: The Good, The Bad, The Weird: 8/10.
1/2/2013: Spaceballs: 6/10.*
1/3/2013: Tetsuo: The Iron Man: 8/10.
1/4/2013: The Impossible: 7/10.
1/5/2013: The Hunger Games: 8/10.*
1/6/2013: V/H/S: 2/10.
1/7/2013: Let The Bullets Fly: 8/10.
1/8/2013: Ted: 5/10.
1/8/2013: Monsieur Verdoux: 9/10.
1/9/2013: Dredd: 7/10.*
1/9/2013: The Avengers (2012): 7/10.*
1/10/2013: Cosmopolis: 7/10.*
1/10/2013: Perfect Sense: 10/10.*
1/11/2013: Zero Dark Thirty: 9/10.
1/12/2013: The Turin Horse: 9/10.
1/12/2013: Bullets Over Broadway: 8/10.*
1/13/2013: Amour: 9/10.
1/14/2013: Jiro Dreams Of Sushi: 8/10.
1/15/2013: The Chaser: 8/10.*
1/16/2013: F For Fake: 10/10.*
1/17/2013: Pina: 6/10.
1/18/2013: The Bourne Legacy: 4/10.
1/19/2013: The Terminal: 6/10.*
1/19/2013: Aladdin: 8/10.*
1/20/2013: The French Lieutenant's Woman: 5/10.
1/21/2013: Indie Game: The Movie: 8/10.
1/22/2013: Das Boot: 9/10.
1/22/2013: The Paperboy: 3/10.
1/23/2013: Searching For Sugar Man: 9/10.
1/24/2013: War Of The Worlds: 8/10.*
1/25/2013: Inland Empire: 7/10.
1/25/2013: To Rome With Love: 5/10.*
1/26/2013: Lassiter: 5/10.*
1/27/2013: Amer: 7/10.
1/28/2013: Secret Sunshine: 10/10.
1/29/2013: Frankenweenie: 8/10.
1/30/2013: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit: 8/10.*
1/30/2013: Seven Psychopaths: 8/10.*
1/31/2013: Kiss Me Deadly: 8/10.*
1/31/2013: Neil Young: Heart Of Gold: 7/10.*

*repeat viewings

Top ten first-time viewings:

Secret Sunshine
Zero Dark Thirty
Amour
Searching For Sugar Man
The Turin Horse
Monsieur Verdoux
Das Boot
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Jiro Dreams Of Sushi
Let The Bullets Fly

January 2013

A Cat in Paris (2010) 2.5
The Illusionist (2011) 3
The Impossible (2012) 3.5
Kill List (2011) 3
Akira (1988) 2.5
Laura (1944) 3
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 3.5
Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) 3
The Brothers Bloom (2008) 2.5
Doubt (2008) 3.5
Chico & Rita (2010) 3
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) 3
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) 3
Gangster Squad (2013) 2
The Aviator (2004) 3
The Invisible War (2011) 3
5 Broken Cameras (2011) 3.5
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) 3.5
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) 3.5
Bound (1996) 3.5

It wasn't without its stiff and awkward patches, but I dug it. Clever, unsettling portrait of self-destruction. Me likey.

January 2013

All star ratings are out of 4, an asterisk denotes a rewatch.

Out of Sight ***
The Grey ***
The King's Speech ***
Boogie Nights *** 1/2
Silver Linings Playbook *** 1/2
*Casino Royale *** 1/2
*Goldeneye ***
Warrior ****
Blow ***
21 Grams * 1/2
Zero Dark Thirty *** 1/2
*Munich ****
United 93 ****
*The Usual Suspects ****
Safehouse **
End of Watch *** 1/2
A Bronx Tale ** 1/2

Top Eight New Viewings:
8. Out of Sight
7. Blow
6. End of Watch
5. Silver Linings Playbook
4. Zero Dark Thirty
3. Boogie Nights
2. United 93
1. Warrior

This was a pretty awesome month for me in terms of both quantity and quality. Typically I only see around 5 new movies a month, though I plan on changing that in the future.

Stiff and akward perfectly describes Robert Pattison's performance, he has to be the single most wooden actor of all time.

January
Week of 12/31 – 1/6
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) ***
Owning Mahowny (2003) ***
Ed Wood (1994) ***½
Week of 1/7 – 1/13
Killer Joe (2011) **
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) ****
Week of 1/14 – 1/20
The Ladykillers (1955) ***
Killing Them Softly (2012) ***
Dave (1993) **½
Week of 1/21 – 1/27
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) ***
The Company Men (2010) **½
Joe (1970) ***
Week of 1/28 – 2/3
Bad Influence (1990) **½
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) **
Breaking the Waves (1996) ***½
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) ***½
Compliance (2012) ***

FEBRUARY:

1. The Passionate Plumber - 5/10
2. Batman: Black and White - no rating
3. Speak Easily - 7/10
4. She (1965) - 6/10
5. The Big Boss - 6/10
6. Parker - 5/10
7. Sleep Tight - 7/10
8. Alex Cross - 5/10
9. Side by Side - 7/10
10. High Sierra - 7/10
11. Here Come the Co-eds - 7/10
12. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - 5/10
13. Breakfast at Tiffany's - 4/10
14. Band of Outsiders - 5/10
15. Bullet to the Head - 5/10
16. Bully (2011) - 6/10
17. Indie Game: The Movie - 8/10
18. Mama - 5/10
19. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 6/10
20. "Cinematic Titanic": Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks - no rating
21. Silver Linings Playbook - 5/10
22. Stingray Sam - 7/10
23. Hang 'Em High - 7/10
24. Hit the Ice - 7/10
25. Robot & Frank - 7/10
26. Warm Bodies - 7/10
27. A Good Day to Die Hard - 5/10
28. The Great American Broadcast - 7/10
29. Little Giant - 6/10
30. Gypsy (1962) - 5/10
31. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 - 6/10
32. The Master (2012) - 7/10
33. The Last Exorcism Part II - 4/10