November Recap
by George Watches Things
Movies seen in November (top 5 noted):
- A Little Help (2011)
- Some Like it Hot* (1959)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* (2004)
- Beginners (2011)
- Candyman: The David Klein Story (2011)
- The Manchurian Candidate* (1962)
- East of Eden (1955)
- Terri (2011)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- The Bleeding House (2011)
- The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)
- In the Loop (2009)
- City Island (2009)
- X-Men: First Class (2011)
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
- Howl (2010)
- Life in a Day (2011)
- Brief Encounter* (1945)
- Star Trek (2009)
- The Red Balloon (1956)
- Last Night (2011)
- Attack the Block (2011)
- Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011)
- Limitless (2011)
- Potiche (2011)
- Buck (2011)
- The Arbor (2011)
- Hugo* (2011)
- The High Cost of Living (2011)
Other posts:
- Guest Post: Attack the Block Review
- Behind the Blog
- Your choice for the best pic of the 70s
- Talk of Community’s hiatus
- More talk of Community’s hiatus
- Five Sports Figures I’d Like to See Films About
- Top 10 Movies I’m Embarrassed I Haven’t Seen (aka The One That Got All Those Views)
- I Don’t Know What Just Happened, But Thanks!
- The Movie Blog Food Hall of Fame, Class of 2011
- Awards Schedule
- Sex in Movies
What TV I’ve been watching:
- Community (NBC, Hulu)
- Everybody Loves Raymond (TV Land)
- The Office (Netflix)
- Retired at 35 (Netflix)
- Running Wilde (Netflix)
Stories about Community:
- An excellent discussion on Remedial Chaos Theory
- Save Community, the letter
- The AV Club’s coverage of Midseasongate
- The Daily Beast’s coverage of Midseasongate
- TV.com’s coverage of Midseasongate
- 5 reasons Community could see a Season 4
Stories about TV that aren’t related to Community:
- This sounds like a bad idea
- A look back at NBC’s pilots
- Save At the Movies
- Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! to become TV program
- Arrested Development is coming back
- Coming soon to NBC
- What to watch over Thanksgiving… next year, I guess
Stories about THE OSCARS:
- Three dumb Oscar rules that need fixing
- In Contention
- 15 docs on the Oscar shortlist
- The Contenders
- Harry Potter Oscar talk
Stories about non-Oscar movie stuff:
- Where’s Waldo to become live-action film
- In a surprise twist that surprises no one, Armond White likes Jack and Jill
- In a surprise twist that surprises no one, Armond White seeks attention for liking Jack and Jill
- Roger Ebert gives a movie zero (0) stars
- OMG ANDREW GARFIELD AND EMMA STONE ARE DATING WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME
- Digital to replace film by 2015
- How to feel old
- Some minimalist posters I discovered
- The Twilight Belt: This is crazy
- Film editing (read it, you’ll learn something)
- Documentaries that’ll make you want to occupy something
Stories about sports:
- Rookie thinks he’s better than Jordan
- PTI turns 10 (scroll past the lovely shout-out to Happy Endings)
- An outdated article giving BCS-haters like me hope
- Long-term MLB predictions that are quite funny
- 14-year-old girl becomes female face of NHL video game
Awesome viral videos I just discovered:
Stories about crazy people:
- Muslims and Obama supporters barred from learning how to use a gun
- And then Westboro wonders why Kevin Smith makes films about them
- An attack of Roger Ebert
- “An anti-gay activist running on a conservative platform for a spot in the Virginia House of Delegates has admitted that she once had sex with a female minor.”
- Pizza is a vegetable
- A bunch of people, including a child, acting like children
Random articles that fit none of the categories above:
- 7 billion: what number are you?
- How to win an argument
- This is grammar
- Business cat; one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen
- 5 people you meet as a gay dad
- Drive is not a date movie
- A piece about Joe Paterno
- A guy who has life figured out
- America’s dirtiest surfaces
- Who haven’t seen [insert title here]?!?!
- 18 phrases to avoid in conversation
- How to get out of the holidays
- Kim Jong-Il looking at things
Haha I bet you had a really fun day when you got all those comments, didn’t you? :D
Anyway, some good movies you saw this month!
10 Things I Hate About You reminds me of Heath Ledger’s real debut: Two Hands, a surprisingly awesome Australian crime comedy.
Nice mix of films. I still need to see Some Like It Hot and Brief Encounter myself.
good job on the older movie stuff. keep it up.
Thank you!
nicee =)
Hey there Movie Man. A heartfelt thanks on the shout you gave out. Much appreciated.