Film & TV & Books of 2014
Films (seen for first time)
001. Up - A+++
002. Admission - C
003. Save the Date - C+
004. American Hustle - D+ (screechy and over-long with bad editing - and voiceovers, ugh)
005. Premium Rush - D
006. Warm Bodies - A
007. What To Expect When You're Expecting - D
008. New Year's Eve - F-
009. A Good Day To Die Hard - C+
010. Rear Window - A-
011. Wanderlust - F
012. The Bling Ring - C
013. Now You See Me - A
014. Veronica Mars - A
015. Ain't Them Bodies Saints - B
016. The Oranges - C-
017. Frozen - B+
018. The Spectacular Now - D-
019. The Bourne Legacy - C
020. Ted - D
021. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - A
022. Broken City - C-
023. American Dreamz - C
024. Inside Llewyn Davis - D
025. We're the Millers - B-
026. The Maltese Falcon - A-
027. Don Jon - A-
028. The To Do List - B+
029. Attack the Block - B
030. Prisoners - A-
031. The Way, Way Back - A
032. The Lifeguard - B
033. Before Midnight - B
034. Gangster Squad - F
035. Drinking Buddies - B+
036. Frances Ha - B-
037. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - B+
038. The Lego Movie - A-
039. Music and Lyrics - D
040. Gone - F
041. Hoodwinked - F
042. Her - B+
043. Locke - A-
044. That Awkward Moment - C-
045. About Time - C
046. Solaris - D
047. Killer Joe - D
048. All the President's Men - B+
049. Begin Again - A
TV Shows (watched entire season/series)
001. Castle, season 6 (continued from 2013) - D+
002. House of Cards, season 2 - B+
003. Better Off Ted, season 2 - A-
004. True Detective, season 1 - B-
005. Undeclared, complete series - C-
006. New Girl, season 1 - B+
007. New Girl, season 2 - A-
008. Orange is the New Black, season 2 - in progress
009. Murder in the First, season 1 - D
010. Fargo, season 1 - A-
011. Masters of Sex, season 2 - A <3
012. Party Down, season 1 - B
013. Party Down, season 2 - B+
014. New Girl, season 3 - B- (Last 3 eps = NO SENSE)
015. New Girl, season 4 - in progress
016. Homeland, season 4 - B+
017. Castle, season 7 - in progress (MASOCHISTIC HATE-WATCHING FTW!)
018. The Affair, season 1 - A-
019. You're the Worst, season 1 - A+++
Books
001. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (continued from 2013) - F- (not nearly as clever as it thinks it is)
002. Night Film, Marisha Pessl - B
003. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt - B+
004. Albert of Adelaide, Howard L Anderson - D
005. The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham - A
006. Thank You For Smoking, Christopher Buckley - B
007. Men Without Women, Ernest Hemingway - B-
008. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl - A-
009. Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene - B+
010. Brief Encounters With Che Guevera, Ben Fountain - B+
011. Woes of the True Policeman, Roberto Bolaño - C
012. The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith - B
013. This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Trooper - F+ (RAGE)
014. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner - B
015. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman - B+
016. The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri - C-
017. The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood- A
018. MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood - A-
019. While Mortals Sleep, Kurt Vonnegut - D
020. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de Botton - C-
021. Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer - B+
022. Authority, Jeff Vandermeer - B
023. Acceptance, Jeff Vandermeer - B
024. Deadly Heat, Richard Castle - in progress