Saturday, April 17, 2010

#11 - An Education

Me and Tim Approx January 7, 2010






Directed by: Lone Scherfig

Written by: Lynn Barber (memoir) 
                  Nick Hornby (screenplay)

Starring: Carey Mulligan 
              Peter Sarsgaard 
              Alfred Molina


Plot Synopsis:
An Education is set in the 1960s in a suburb of London. Carey Mulligan plays the mature (read arrogant) 16/17 year old Jenny. She works hard in school and is very bright with a promising future ahead of her. Her parents, especially her father, push her to succeed and lead a better life than they did. Her aspirations are aimed at Oxford. That is until a boy comes along and she throws her whole fucking life away to become his happy little housewife. Peter Sarsgaard is the much older David who swoops into her life all romantic and charming with promises of an exciting life of travel and culture and decadence. So when David proposes to Jenny she decides to give up going to Oxford with her parents blessing, but to the dismay of her teacher. Why would a woman need college when she has a man? Am I right gals? But when Jenny finds out David is made of lies she realizes she might have made a tiny mistake in giving up her dreams.

Review:
I have no idea what kind of person Carey Mulligan is. She's just starting her career and this is the only thing I've seen her in, so for all I know she could be a total hag. But probably not. She's probably a very delightful person and obviously a wonderful actress. She brought so much to the character of Jenny. Who, although arrogant and painfully naive, is so full of life and passion that you only want good things for her. We should all have such ambition and thirst for adventure. That being said, I was happy to see her get her comeuppance and come to her senses. I'm sure everyone dreams of meeting someone more exciting than themselves. Someone who can show them the world. But I think that's because most people are too scared or lazy to discover it on their own.

I'm trying to think of a way to describe this movie. It wasn't sad or shocking or even educational (Do you see what I did there? I'm so clever.). I'm going to say it was romantic. I don't mean that in the kind of romantic things that happen between two people sense. I mean romantic like the ideas and hopes and views of one person. Someone who has beautiful daydreams and believes in love. Jenny is a very romantic character who wants so much to experience life.

I'm just rambling about nothing really, aren't I? I assure you that a lot happened in this movie and it was very entertaining and the characters were all very interesting and I think you should see it. I really enjoyed it. 

Friday, April 16, 2010

#10 - Broken Flowers

I watched this on January 7, 2010 all sad and alone.

I know I haven't been updating. I also know no one cares. But this isn't for you it's for me. I am determined to force myself to do this. I know it's silly and seemingly pointless but I really want to have the discipline to actually finish all the millions of stupid projects I start. Me doing this has nothing to do with movies. It's a way to get me to write and think and be productive and not fall victim to laziness and I just can't seem to maintain a normal blog. Okay momentary neurosis over. Sorry about that.


 
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Directed by: Jim Jarmusch

Written by: Jim Jarmusch

Starring: Bill Murray
              Julie Delpy
              Jeffrey Wright

Plot Synopsis:
Bill Murray is a man-whore who finds out he has a bastard son. His girlfriend Julie Deply leaves him and as he's wallowing in his own self-righteous-patheticness he gets a mysterious pink letter from a former lover telling him he knocked her up and now their 19 year old son is trying to find out who his father is. With the help of his wacky neighbor, Jeffrey Wright, he attempts to find out who sent the letter. Murray aka Don Johnson goes on a quest to visit 4 of his old girlfriends and potential letter writers. Each one being more eccentric than the last. All of this fucks with his brain and he ends up going crazy. Okay I embellished a little there, but it does have a very awkward ending that makes him out to be sad and creepy.

Review:
It was aight. I love all the actors in it so I enjoyed it. The story was okay..... I don't know. It was kinda a little too goofy at some parts. Maybe goofy isn't the right word - Zany? Tilda Swinton looked fucking gorgeous. I would have liked more of her. I think maybe I didn't get this movie. If there was a point I missed it. Murray's character doesn't really grow or change or discover anything about himself. In the end he's just as sad and narcissistic as he was in the beginning. The only person that acts like a real person is the boy at the end. None of the other characters are believable which sort of leads me to believe that the crazy of these women is all just Don Johnson's fucked up version of them. Maybe that's why this woman never wanted her son to meet his insane father. Maybe there is no son at all. Maybe I'm reading too much into it and I should just take it at face value. Who fucking knows? Like I said it was aight.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

#9 The Core

I (sort of) watched this on January 6, 2010. I wasn't paying much attention because I was painting, I think, so I just had it on in the background. There is something you should know about me, I love bad movies. Bad movies are my guilty pleasure. It can't be any bad movie though it has to be the right kind of bad movie. Movies like Armageddon or  Cellular or The Core. So I guess mainly action movies that are suppose to be good but are hilariously bad. 


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Directed by: Jon Amiel

Written by: Cooper Layne
                 John Rogers

Starring: Aaron Eckhart
             Hilary Swank 
             Delroy Lindo 
             Stanley Tucci


Plot Synopsis: Okay so let me just write the things I remember off the top of my head without looking up the summary on imdb. A bunch of birds start smacking into buildings and cars and people. (This is the best part of the movie.) Then some monuments get destroyed by earthquakes? This is due to the Earth's core and it's lack of spinage. So some rouge scientist who specializes in something puts all the pieces together and contacts some government people or something. They put together a ragtag team of badasses to go on some outlandish mission to save the Earth. Their plan is to nuke the Earth's core to get it spinning again and Hillary Swank is there for some reason.

Review: This is a bad movie. It's terrible. It's like a bad Armageddon and Armageddon was bad. (Armageddon is the perfect bad movie by the way). I wasn't paying much attention so I don't remember the extent of the bad. But I'm sure it's boring and tedious. I like the parts where it tries to be emotional cause it's kind of embarrassing which makes it funny. Or the parts where it tries to be funny because it's cheesy which makes it funny. There isn't much to say. This is a bad movie and unless you're a masochistic bad movie perv like me there is no reason to watch it.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

#8 - Up In The Air

I think we watched this on January 6, 2010.




Directed by: Jason Reitman

Written by: Walter Kirn (novel)
                 Jason Reitman
                 & Sheldon Turner
                 (screenplay)

Starring: George Clooney
             Vera Farmiga
             Anna Kendrick
             Jason Bateman


Plot synopsis:
George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a traveling salesman. What he sells is you out of a job! That was terrible, let me start over.... Ryan Bingham's life is his job. He works for a company that other companies hire when they need to downsize and are too chickenshit to do it themselves. So he flies all around the country firing people. He lives out of a suitcase and he loves it. Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick)  is young and way too proactive. She comes up with an idea to fire from the comfort of their home office via video conference instead of flying around and doing it on person. Bingham is horrified by the idea of staying in one place so he objects to this saying it will never work. He teams up with Natalie to go on a firing expedition to show her why her idea is stupid. Along the way he meets a pretty lady who also has a fetish for flying and falls in love...awwww....sorta. And there's some shit about his sister getting married somewhere in there.
Review:
I don't think there could possibly have been a more appropriate movie to come out in 2009. Our economy is shit and everyone is either out of work or about to be. It deals with the ever climbing pile of sleaze and bullshit that is corporate America. (profit over people) The cold collected way we're all suppose to behave in this charade that is the workplace. In the movie companies are outsourcing their firing to another company to keep it all nice and professional. But even the firing company itself can't escape the monster we call capitalism as they attempt to eliminate the only piece of humanity they offer, which is a human presence. They'll save money on flights and hotels if they can just fire people over Skype. It's so efficient and soul-less. Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) Is the brain behind this innovative new venture. She is smart and ambitious and arrogant and naive and foolish, you know human. Kendrick is perfect in this movie. I can't even believe that she hasn't done much else beside this and Twilight. She's up for best supporting actress at the Oscars and she so deserves it. (This Sunday I can't wait! I'm aware of how big of a lame I am)

The whole movie is about not getting personally or emotionally involved with anyone. You should just concentrate on achieving your goals and getting ahead in life. Clooney is of course charming in this movie like he is in every movie but he's not douchey he's kind of humble. His character, Ryan Bingham, is a loner and he thinks he doesn't need anyone to make him happy. That is until he finally finds someone that does, Alex Goran, Vera Farmiga's character. Clooney and Vera have amazing chemistry by the way. The way he feels about her makes him rethink his philosophy on life and realize that he doesn't want to be alone anymore.
 If everyone just works for the benefit of themselves and ignores the rest of the world our society will crumble, but then again I'm a godless commie so I have to say things like that. But, even with that being said, I'm a loner who doesn't like to get close to people so I found Bingham's life of perpetual travel rather appealing. Okay, In short, I loved this movie. I can't wait to see what Jason Reitman will make next.            






Friday, February 26, 2010

#7 - The Visitor

I watched this by my lonesome on January 5, 2010.




Directed by: Thomas McCarthy

Written by: Thomas McCarthy

Starring: Richard Jenkins
             Haaz Sleiman
             Danai Gurira
             Hiam Abbass

Plot synopsis:
A grumpy old white guy makes friends with a charming young foreigner.
Walter is a college professor who leads a lonely existence. He has to go to New York for a conference or some shit. When he arrives at the apartment that he owns but never visits he finds Tarek and Zainab living there. They were victims of a scam or something and thought they were renting it legally. Walter invites them to stay because he is just that lonely. Walter has a love for music and Tarek is a musician so they build a friendship off of that and Tarek starts teaching him how to play the African drum. One day in the subway station Tarek gets arrested because it's post 9-11 and he's Syrian. Walter finds out that Tarek is an illegal immigrant and is being held in an immigration prison. Tarek's mother shows up unexpectedly at his door, worried because she hasn't heard from her son. Walter and Tarek's mother forge a cute relationship as they bond over Tarek's horrible situation.

Review:
This had the potential to be a very average meaningless movie but thankfully it wasn't. The relationships aren't exactly believable but so what. The characters are all extremely likable so you care about what happens to them. The story of Walter and his sad little life is simply used as a way to meet and get to know these characters and is ultimately unimportant. What makes this movie good and important, and it is important, is what happens to Tarek. This is the only movie that I've seen or at least that I can currently recall that deals with these issues. The issues of racial profiling, abuse of power, the loss of rights, and the hysteria about illegal immigrants in a post 9-11 America. More than anything though, this movie is about empathy. Which there seems to be a great lack of  today in America. Probably in the rest of the world too but I don't really know or particularly care because I am after all American. Fuck Yeah! In summary go watch The Visitor, it's enjoyable.



Thursday, February 25, 2010

#5 - The Hurt Locker

We watched this somewhere around January 3, 2010. I'm was going to make Tim write this one but then he didn't so now I'm doing it. Wasn't that a great story?




Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow

Written by: Mark Boal


Starring: Jeremy Renner
             Anthony Mackie
             Brian Geraghty
             Guy Pearce


Plot Synopsis:
So there's this guy, Sgt. James, who is some bomb defusing specialist. He joins Sgt. Sanborn and Specialist Eldridge in Iraq after their former team leader was killed attempting to defuse a bomb. James comes in as the new hotshot team leader who plays by his own rules. He's the classic renegade with a heart of gold type. While the other two are basically scared shit-less and want to go home, you know, like any sane person would be in that situation. James doesn't seem to know or want any other life. He even seems to get a high off of defusing bombs. The movie follows the three of them as they go on a few missions and get themselves in some pretty sticky situations. Zany

Review:
The Hurt Locker is (probably) the best movie of the year. I'd be very happy if it got Best Picture at the Oscars. Is it nominated for Best Picture? Hang on let me check......Yes, yes it is. So is Up In The Air. Hmmmm that was also a very good movie. Okay so it's between those two for the best movie of 2009 in my opinion.
Anyway - review: Really Fucking Good!
If you haven't seen it yet then I kinda hate you. It's that good. It's not some big actiony war movie. It's much more personal and psychological, showing some of the different effects war can have on people. Some people (Sanborn) try be logical and treat it like a job. Some people (Eldridge) let it get to them and become emotional and fragile. While other people (James) see it as a drug. That's not to say he necessarily enjoys it, he just seems to get a rush from it. He's good at defusing bombs and he knows it. This is a very tense movie. The directing is brilliant. Long quiet scenes help build the suspense and paranoia. We're only given small glimpses into these characters backgrounds and personal lives. We don't need any more than that. We get to know them through their actions and behavior. We don't even need to fully understand them or what makes them tick. We just need to see how they handle these given situations. It's gritty and beautiful.

Monday, January 25, 2010

#6 - Mala Noche

I (Andrina) watched this without Tim on January 5, 2010. Netflix instant streaming is mankind's greatest achievement.




Directed by: Gus Van Sant

Written by: Walt Curtis (story)
                 Gus Van Sant

Starring: Tim Streeter
              Doug Cooeyate
              Ray Monge
              Nyla McCarthy


Plot synopsis:
Mala Noche is based on an autobiographical story by Walt Curtis and takes place in Portland, Oregon. Walt ,who is kind of an asshole, is a convenience store clerk and totally gay for Johnny, a illegal Mexican immigrant who doesn't speak English, and is also kind of an asshole. Johnny is weirded out by Walt and refuses all of his advances. Walt ends up having sex with Johnny's friend Pepper, who is yet another asshole. Johnny goes missing, Pepper gets sick, Walt remains an asshole....and some other shit happens.

Review:
Everyone in this movie is an asshole. I don't care what happens to any of these people because they are all selfish and arrogant. The acting is bad. The pacing is tedious. I have no idea how much time is going by. I could give a fuck less about the story. This is one of Gus Van Sant's first movies so I don't want to judge it too harshly. It feels like a first movie. I didn't expect anything amazing going in so I wasn't necessarily disappointed by it. But I'd definitely watch it again. I'm a sucker for black and white photography. I'm an even bigger sucker for hard shadows, high contrast, and dramatic lighting and focus. This movie is fucking gorgeous. Every shot would make a beautiful photograph. It's not for everybody but for me it's a complete visual-orgy-gasm. So if you ever watch it just watch it with the sound off. I will end this some stills from the movie so you can relish in the beauty.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

#4 - The Lovely Bones

We watched this somewhere around January 2, 2010.


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Directed by: Peter Jackson

Written by: Alice Sebold
                 (novel)             
                 Fran Walsh
                 & Philippa Boyens
                 & Peter Jackson
                 (screenplay)


Starring: Saoirse Ronan
             Mark Wahlberg
             Stanley Tucci
             Rachel Weisz
             Susan Sarandon
             Rose McIver
             Reece Ritchie


Plot Synopsis
(of the movie not the book)
So, there's this naive 14 year old girl and this creepy serial killer who fancies her. While she fancies this one boy from school and taking photos of her creepy neighbor. One day on her way home from school she gets murdered and probably raped and dismembered not necessarily in that order. She goes to....heaven? I guess it's more like a pre-heaven heaven until she can face her own death or something of that nature. While in this place she can watch over her family and friends as they are emotionally torn apart by her horrific death.

Review
Let me start by saying I haven't read the book. It seems like there's been quite a bit of hate for this movie and it's mainly from people who have read the book. I didn't hate this movie. I didn't love it either but I definitely liked it. It seems the biggest complaints have been that too much effort was put into the visuals and not enough into the story. Aside from the surrealistic "heaven" stuff the "real world" was also beautifully shot. The "heaven" scenes were indisputably stunning but that's not what I think about when I think back on this movie. I mainly think about the performances of Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon and Stanley Tucci as George Harvey. I think it's worth seeing just for them. I also really liked the character of  Jack Salmon, Susie's dad, and I think Mark Wahlberg did a good job. I liked his OCD, his obsession with finding the killer, the totally irrational logic of his rational problem solving. Okay so here's the things that bothered me. I don't get why the boy she was crushing on when she was 14 was still hung up on her however-many-indeterminate-amount-of years after she died even though they never actually had any real connection. Also Susan Sarandon. I guess I shouldn't say that because she was good as the grandmother but I didn't like the character of the grandmother. She probably would have been my favorite character if it weren't for one thing. She never shows any sign of grief over her murdered granddaughter. There's one scene where she's talking to her young grandson about Susie being dead and it's unnecessarily mean. She's willing to come live with the family to help them get their lives back in order and take care of the children so why is she so cold hearted when it comes to Susie? Maybe that's the way it is in the book, I don't know but it bothered me. Lastly, there's this really weird montage where the wacky grandma has to take care of the children and do the house work and...awkwardness ensues. I think it's suppose to be cute and funny but given the gravity of what this family has just been through it's kind of hard to watch. We don't want to be quirky and lighthearted when someone has been brutally murdered. Especially if that someone is our beloved 14 year old granddaughter. But all in all I still think It's a good movie, not great but good. I'm glad I saw it and in the future if I ever get a working TV and it happens to be on I just might watch it again.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

#3 - Invictus

I'm not completely sure about the date but I'm thinking it was January 1st when we watched this.


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Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Written by: Anthony Peckham
                  (screenplay)
                  John Carlin (book)

Starring: Morgan Freeman
             Matt Damon


Plot Synopsis
South Africa is very racially divided and Nelson Mandela being elected president only seems to add fuel to the fire. Being Nelson Mandela he wants to bring an end to this shiz. When he hears that the nation's rugby team The Springboks is going to be replaced with a new team he "spring(bok)s" into action. I'm sorry....I'm so sorry about that. Please don't hit me. Despite the team's suckiness the white population still support them mainly because it's part of their European roots. He knows that disbanding the team will only alienate and anger these people, furthering the divide. So he meets with Fancois, the captain of the rugby team, to try to motivate him into motivating his team into maybe thinking about trying to actually win enough games to get to the World Cup.

Review
I love Clint Eastwood. I love everything he's ever done. He drips sweat drops of perfection from his grizzled old face! I would have loved to see a Mandela biopic but I think this rugby junk made for a better movie. I'm American so I don't know anything about rugby. Is it like soccer-football only stupider? Also, I'm not proud to admit this, but I don't know much about Mandela either, except that he spent a long ass time in prison then became president of South Africa. The reason I like the rugby angle over the biopic is that it's relatable and it makes Mandela human instead of Super Jesus. (I stole that Jesus thing from Dylan Moran )  He seems like he could be your dad. Is that weird? I guess he just kinda reminded me of my dad and the way he likes football and baseball. I will never care about sports. I obsess over different things like movies and bands. I love Placebo like my dad loves The Greenbay Packers. People are passionate about sports, it unites people like nothing else. Finding out that someone supports the same team as you instantly makes you like them more. This movie shows Mandela's brilliance and humanity without having to resort to a heart wrenching tale of hard work and suffering. It's a rather simple but nonetheless passionate and uplifting story. If it wasn't true I would think it was cliche and corny. The fact that I don't care about sports that I know about, let alone rugby, and this movie made me care, is a testament to how good it is. Because it's not actually about the game it's about the importance of unity on a level that everyone can understand. Go see it! It's fucking brilliant.
 

Thursday, January 14, 2010

#2 - The Birds

Tim and I watched The Birds on New Years day. We just recently watched Psycho and North By Northwest for the first time so we're on a bit of a Hitchcock kick. That there Alfred Hitchcock was a pretty darn good film maker. Did you know that? I think I saw it when I was little but the only thing I remember is the phone booth scene and that's most likely just because it has been parodied so many times.
 


Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Written By: Daphne Du Maurier
                  (story)
                  Evan Hunter
                  (screenplay)

Starring: Rod Taylor
             Tippi Hedren
             Jessica Tandy
             Suzanne Pleshette
             Veronica Cartwright


Plot Synopsis
Melanie Daniels is a spoiled bitch with an undeserved sense of entitlement. She is the daughter of a wealthy newspaper tycoon in San Francisco and is often the subject of scandal. So she's essentially Paris Hilton, she even kinda looks like her. So bitch-face is in a pet store being horrible when she runs into Mitch Brenner who is looking for love birds for his younger sister's birthday. He calls her out on her shit which intrigues her for some reason. So Melanie stalks Mitch all the way to Bodega Bay, which is unbelievably beautiful, where he is visiting his mother and sister. She brings the love birds to his house and he invites her to dinner. She meets his much younger sister Cathy and his creepy mother Lydia. Cathy wants Melanie to come to her birthday party so she needs a place to stay for the night. She shacks up with Cathy's teacher Annie, who was an old girlfriend of Mitch's and Oh yeah birds are attacking and killing everyone!

Review
The Birds is set in Bodega Bay which is absolutely breathtaking. Tim and I were saying we'd love to visit. But I was feeling disheartened about it because I was worried that the lush green hills had been ruined with commercial and domestic development. Tim looked it up to see if it was still as beautiful today and it is thankfully intact. I've only watched 3 Hitchcock films so far so I'm not claiming to be an expert on his work but that's not going to stop me from pretending that I am. He gets the best performances out of his actors. The characters are charming and you empathize with them even if you think they're spoiled bitches. God fucking dammit writing movie reviews is hard! It's The Birds, of course it's amazing! Okay how about this? Even if there were no killer birds it would still be an amazing movie. I love the way the looming terror of the birds slowing builds. The first hour of the movie barely has any mention of them. The subtlety of Melanie looking up at some rather normal birds and feeling like there's something slightly odd about them for no overt reason is genius. No reason is ever given for the murderous behavior of the birds. Can you imagine how potentially awful a reason could have been? I very much appreciate that level of mystery and the room for speculation. The "why?" makes it all the more terrifying. The threat of the birds can be summed up in one brilliant scene. Melanie is waiting outside the schoolhouse for Cathy. She's sitting on a bench with her back to an empty jungle gym. We see one crow fly up and land on it. Then another. Then one more.....until we go to a shocking establishing shot of the jungle gym completely covered with crows. It seriously made me make an audible terrified noise. The fact that the birds are often puppets or animated doesn't take anything away. I guess it's kind of needless to say that there are countless beautiful shots seeing as how it's Hitchcock. The last shot being possibly the most stunning shot I've ever seen. I'm going to end it here because I'm beating myself up over this for no real reason.





Monday, January 11, 2010

#1 - Thirst

Tim and I watched Thirst on New Year's Eve. It ended  right at midnight so it was technically 2009 but we'll count it anyway because I said so. Tim thinks I should write a review of every movie we/I watch. I think that's going to be a lot of pointless work. I have the lazy....


                                                    Watch the trailer 
 

Thirst is a Korean movie directed by Chan-wook Park . He's the man who brought us Old Boy so you just know Thirst is going to be fucked up.

Plot Synopsis
A priest volunteers for a clinical study for some vaccine for some virus which results in him contracting said virus which is something not too unlike leprosy. He receives a blood transfusion to try and rid himself of the virus. But apparently the blood was from a vampire so now he's a vampire. Bum Bum Bum. He falls in love with an old childhood friend after they become reacquainted. She thinks she's trapped in an abusive home environment and a loveless marriage. She sees Mr. vampire/priest as an escape. All the while he struggles with his faith seeing as how he's a creature of evil and shit.

Review
Tim and I heard vampire movies were all the rage so we wanted to see what all the hubbub was about. In short, I loved it. Thirst is incredibly original. Visually speaking, it's beautiful. It explores ideas I've never seen in any other vampire movie, hell, in any other movie period. The characters are complex, flawed, and likeable. There are a few stand out scenes which are some of the best I've ever seen in any movie ever....ever. The one that sticks with me the most is when the girl is running down the street at night on her bare feet and the priest comes out of nowhere, picks up the girl, slips his shoes off, and places her in them.
I have spent way too much time on this already. I have so many to do before I catch up to today. I seriously watch like 2 movies a day. There's no way I'm going to keep this up for a whole year. I've been staring at the screen erasing then retyping the same sentences over and over. I've never written a movie review before. I don't know what to talk about. So let's say that this is good enough for now.
I highly recommend Thirst. It's touching and smart and fun and fucked up.

Movies Watched in January 2010

Movies watched in January 2010

   * = Unsure about the date        
T = Tim watched the movie       A = Andrina watched the movie
 X = No movies watched that day
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Thursday - December 31 --- 1) - Thirst (TA)


Friday - January 01 --------- 2) - The Birds (TA)
                                         3) - Invictus * (TA)

Saturday - January 02 ------ 4) - The Lovely Bones * (TA)

Sunday - January 03 -------- 5) - The Hurt Locker * (TA)

Monday - January 04 ------- X

Tuesday - January 05 ------- 6) - Mala Noche (A)
                                          7) - The Visitor (A)

Wednesday - January 06 --- 8) - Up In The Air * (TA)
                                          9) - The Core (A)

Thursday - January 07 ------ 10) - Broken Flowers (A)
                                          11) - An Education * (TA)

Friday - January 08 --------- 12) - Vertigo (TA)
                                          13) - A Streetcar Named Desire (A)
                                          xx) - East Of Eden - (half) (A)

Saturday - January 09 ------ 14) - Stage Beauty (A)
                                          15) - The Road (TA)

Sunday - January 10 -------- 16) - A Serious Man (TA)
                                          17) - Whip It (A)

Monday - January 11 ------- 18) - 500 Days Of Summer (A)

Tuesday - January 12 ------- X


Wednesday - January 13 --- X

Thursday - January 14 ------ 19) - Deep Blue Sea (TA)

Friday - January 15 --------- 20) - East Of Eden (finished) (A)
                                          xx) - Rebel without a cause (half) (A)

Saturday - January 16 ------ 21) - Rebel Without A Cause (finished) (A)

Sunday - January 17 ------- X

Monday - January 18 ------ X     
                                                      I spent this time
Tuesday - January 19 ------ X        watching The Tudors.
                                                      Shut up I like
Wednesday - January 20 -- X        Jonathan Rhys Meyer.
                                                    
Thursday - January 21 ----- X

Friday - January 22 -------- X

Saturday - January 23 ---- 22) The James Dean Story (A)

Sunday - January 24 ------ 23) loudQUIETloud: A Film About 
                                                The Pixies (A)
Monday - January 25 ----- X

Tuesday - January 26 ----- X
                                                      This time was spent
Wednesday - January 27 -- X         finally finishing
                                                       Battlestar Galactica.
Thusrday - January 28 ---- X          We're almost done
                                                       Just 6 episodes to go.
Friday - January 29 -------- X

Saturday - January 30 ----- X

Sunday - January 31 ------- 24) Parting Glances (A)

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Total movies watched by Andrina:  Month - 24  / Year - 24
Total movies watched by Tim: Month - 11 / Year - 11
Total movies watched together: Month - 11 / Year - 11
Total movies watched: Month - 24 / Year - 24