This is for my own records. Nobody else read it!
MOVIES
I watched 349 movies in 2015. That’s less than one a day, which is low for me. On the other hand, it’s still 349 movies, which is a lot. It’s almost 350. Here’s how they broke down:
– 173 theatrical releases (including 10 re-watches)
– 45 festival entries that will open in 2016 (or possibly never).
– 66 movies from previous years that I re-watched.
– 65 movies from previous years that were brand spankin’ new to me.
My goal in 2016 is to watch more movies, and to continue in this fashion until I have seen all the movies.
2015 theatrical releases that I saw:
(Links are to my reviews. If I didn’t write a review but did talk about it on Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider, there’s a link to the episode.)
The 33
45 Years [B.S.]
’71
99 Homes
Adult Beginners
The Age of Adaline [B.S.]
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
American Ultra [B.S.]
Anomalisa
Ant-Man
The Assassin
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Balls Out
The Big Short
Blackhat
Black Mass
Black Sea [B.S.]
Bone Tomahawk [B.S.]
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn [B.S.]
Burnt [B.S.]
By the Sea
Carol
Chi-Raq
Cinderella [B.S.]
Cooties
Cop Car
Creed
Crimson Peak [B.S.]
Daddy’s Home
The Danish Girl
The D Train
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Digging for Fire [B.S.]
Dope
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
The Duff
The Duke of Burgundy
Entertainment
Entourage
Everest [B.S.]
Ex Machina
Experimenter
Fantastic Four [B.S.]
Far from the Madding Crowd
Fifty Shades of Grey
Focus
Freetown [B.S.]
Furious Seven
The Gallows
Get Hard
The Gift [B.S.]
Going Clear
The Good Dinosaur
Goodnight Mommy
Goosebumps
The Hateful Eight
Heaven Knows What
Hotel Transylvania 2
Hot Pursuit
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Infinitely Polar Bear
Inside Out
Insidious: Chapter 3
In the Heart of the Sea
It Follows
James White
Jem and the Holograms
Joy
Jupiter Ascending
Jurassic World
The Keeping Room [B.S.]
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Knock Knock
Krampus
The Last Five Years [B.S.]
The Last Witch Hunter
The Lazarus Effect
Learning to Drive
Legend
Live from New York!
The Longest Ride [B.S.]
Love the Coopers
Macbeth
Madame Bovary
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magic Mike XXL
The Martian [B.S.]
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl [B.S.]
Minions
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
Mississippi Grind
Mistress America [B.S.]
Mr. Holmes [B.S.]
My All-American [B.S.]
Ned Rifle
Night Owls
Once I Was a Beehive
Our Brand Is Crisis
The Overnight
Paper Towns [B.S.]
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Pawn Sacrifice
The Peanuts Movie
Phoenix [B.S.]
Pitch Perfect 2
Pod
Point Break
Poltergeist
Results [B.S.]
The Revenant
Rock the Kasbah [B.S.]
Room [B.S.]
Run All Night
San Andreas
The Scorch Trials
Self/less
Seventh Son
Sicario [B.S.]
Sinister 2
Sisters
Sleeping with Other People [B.S.]
Son of Saul
Southpaw [B.S.]
SPECTRE
Spotlight
Spy
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Steve Jobs
Stonewall [B.S.]
Straight Outta Compton
Strangerland
Suffragette [B.S.]
Tangerine [B.S.]
Taken 3
Ted 2
Terminator Genisys [B.S.]
Testament of Youth [B.S.]
Tomorrowland
Trainwreck
The Tribe
True Story
Trumbo
Truth [B.S.]
Turbo Kid
Unexpected
Unfinished Business
Unfriended
Vacation
Victor Frankenstein
The Visit
The Voices
The Walk [B.S.]
A Walk in the Woods [B.S.]
We Are Still Here
We Are Your Friends [B.S.]
The Wedding Ringer
What We Do in the Shadows
Wild Horses
Youth
Z for Zachariah
Film festival entries that haven’t been released theatrically yet:
Sundance: [B.S.]
The Bronze
I Am Michael
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Oxford (Miss.) Film Festival:
Billy Mize and the Bakersfield Sound
Bluebird
Dwarves Kingdom
Just About Famous
Oil & Water
Stomping Ground
Yazoo Revisited
South By Southwest: [B.S.]
Babysitter
The Corpse of Anna Fritz
The Frontier
The Grief of Others
Hello, My Name Is Doris
The Invitation
Fantastic Fest: [B.S.]
April and the Extraordinary World
The Brand New Testament
Coz Ov Moni 2: Fokn Revenge
Demon
Der Bunker
The Devil’s Candy
Evolution
February
German Angst
Green Room
Glorious Works of G.W. Zwaen
Hard to Get
High-Rise
Klown Forever
La Granja
Love & Peace
Lovemilla
Men and Chicken
The Mind’s Eye
Office
Rabid Dogs
Schneider vs. Bax
The Similars
Tale of Tales
Tikkun
Too Late
The Witch
Yakuza Apocalypse
Pre-2015 films that I’d seen before, and reviewed, that I re-watched:
Amelie (2001)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Burn After Reading (2008)
Crash (2005)
The Departed (2005)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Fight Club (1999)
Foxcatcher (2014)
Godzilla (1998)
Goon (2012)
High Fidelity (2000)
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
L.I.E. (2001)
Magnolia (1999)
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
The Producers (2005)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Sinister (2012)
Step Brothers (2008)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
They Came Together (2014)
The Virgin Suicides (2000)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Wet Hot American Summer
Whiplash (2014)
Zoolander (2001)
Pre-2015 films that I’d seen before but did not review that I re-watched:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Chinatown (1974)
The Crying Game (1992)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Face/Off (1997)
Fantasia (1940)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Idiocracy (2005)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Inherent Vice (2014)
Jetsons: The Movie (1990)
Misery (1990)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Moonstruck (1987)
Network (1976)
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Platoon (1986)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Soapdish (1991)
The Sting (1973)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Supergirl (1984)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Tommy Boy (1995)
Total Recall (1990)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Weird Science (1985)
Pre-2015 films that I saw for the first time:
Alice (Neco z Alenky) (1988)
All of Me (1984)
American Sniper (2014)
Le Bonheur (1965)
Black Sunday (aka The Mask of Satan) (1960)
Bound (1996)
The Brood (1979)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Carry On, Sergeant (1958)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Color Purple (1985)
Con Air (1997)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Cracking Up (1977)
Dangerous Men (2005)
Days of Thunder (1990)
The Doll (1919)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Endless Love (2014)
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Farewell Uncle Tom (1971)
The Fifth Element (1997)
The Fly (1986)
Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
The General (1926)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Hustler (1961)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain (2011)
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013)
Lambada (1990)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Love Story (1970)
The Maze Runner (2014)
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Nine to Five (1980)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Paper Soldiers (2002)
Perfect Understanding (1933)
The Professional (aka Leon) (1994)
Re-Animator (1985)
The Running Man (1987)
Roar (1981)
Scanners (1981)
Selma (2014)
Shadows and Fog (1992)
Something Like a Business (2010)
Still Alice (2014)
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The Toxic Avenger (1984)
WarGames (1983)
White Zombie (1932)
TV
Here’s what I watched regularly this year. Current season, unless otherwise indicated.
Another Period
Archer (season 5)
Better Call Saul
Black Mirror (entire series)
Bob’s Burgers
BoJack Horseman
Broad City
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Fargo
Hannibal
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (season 9)
The Jinx (entire series)
Last Man on Earth
Mad Men
Mr. Robot
Other Space
Parks and Recreation (entire series)
Rick and Morty (season 1)
Saturday Night Live
Silicon Valley
The Simpsons
South Park
The Thick of It (entire series)
True Detective
Twin Peaks (entire series)
Unbreakable Kimmi Schmidt
Veep
Wet Hot American Summer
With Bob and David
BOOKS
Life is too short for mediocre books, so I bail if I’m 25% through and not enjoying it. Everything on this list is therefore good enough to finish, and the ones I’d particularly recommend have stars.
**The Boy Who Drew Monsters – Keith Donohue
Dear Daughter – Elizabeth Little
**Let Me Off at the Top! – Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell & Adam McKay)
The Martian – Andy Weir
**Mermaids in Paradise – Lydia Millet
**A Practical Guide to Racism – C.H. Dalton (Sam Means)
**Real Moms: Making It Up As We Go – Lisa Valentine Clark
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Woman Upstairs – Claire Messud
**Yes Please – Amy Poehler
Zone of Interest – Martin Amis
