January
Cinema (out of four stars)
01/06/07 – Freedom Writers (LaGravenese, 2007): **1/2
01/07/07 – Babel (Iñárritu, 2006): ****
01/13/07 – Arthur and the Invisibles (Besson, 2007): 1/2-a-star
01/19/07 – Shut Up and Sing (Kopple and Peck, 2006): ***
01/20/07 – Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006): **1/2
01/20/07 – Dreamgirls (Condon, 2006): ****
01/28/07 – Catch and Release (Grant, 2007): *
01/28/07 – For Your Consideration (Guest, 2006): **1/2
01/29/07 – Epic Movie (Friedberg and Seltzer, 2007): 1/2-a-star
DVD (out of four stars)
01/01/07 – My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Reitman, 2006): *1/2
01/02/07 – Artie Lange’s Beer League (Sebastiano, 2006): *
01/03/07 – The Covenant (Harlin, 2006): 1/2-a-star
01/05/07 – The Groomsmen (Burns, 2006): *1/2
01/07/07 – Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood, 2004): ***1/2
01/07/07 – Wordplay (Creadon, 2006): ***
01/08/07 – American Gun (Avelino, 2006): ***
01/09/07 – Factotum (Hamer, 2006): *
01/11/07 – Conversations with Other Women (Canosa, 2006): *1/2
01/13/07 – The Night Listener (Stettner, 2006): **
01/14/07 – Bandidas (Roenning and Sandberg, 2006): *1/2
01/14/07 – Idiocracy (Judge, 2006): **
01/14/07 – Crank (Neveldine and Taylor, 2006): ***
01/15/07 – Hoodwinked (Edwards and Edwards, 2006): *1/2
01/16/07 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Liebesman, 2006): **
01/18/07 – Shadowboxer (Daniels, 2006): **
01/21/07 – Crash (Haggis, 2005): ****
01/21/07 – Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (Oedekerk, 2006): **1/2
01/21/07 – The Ant Bully (Davis, 2006): *
01/23/07 – Sherrybaby (Collyer, 2006): ***
01/24/07 – Mozart and the Whale (Naess, 2006): **
01/29/07 – Saw III (Bousman, 2006): *1/2
01/29/07 – Cocaine Cowboys (Corben, 2006): **
Total number of films seen in January: 32
Total number of films seen for the first time in January: 30
February
Cinema (out of four stars)
02/03/07 – Because I Said So (Lehmann, 2007): *
02/03/07 – Smokin’ Aces (Carnahan, 2007): **
02/03/07 – Stomp the Yard (White, 2007): *
02/11/07 – Norbit (Robbins, 2007): 1/2-a-star
02/16/07 – Ghost Rider (Johnson, 2007): *1/2
02/17/07 – Music and Lyrics (Lawrence, 2007): **1/2
02/24/07 – Volver (Almodovar, 2006): ***
02/24/07 – The Number 23 (Schumacher, 2007):*
DVD (out of four stars)
02/01/07 – The Marine (Bonito, 2006): 1/2-a-star
02/01/07 – Catch a Fire (Noyce, 2006): **
02/05/07 – Flyboys (Bill, 2006): **
02/06/07 – Open Season (Allers, Culton and Stacchi, 2006): *
02/07/07 – Trust the Man (Freundlich, 2006): **1/2
02/08/07 – The Science of Sleep (Gondry, 2006): **1/2
02/08/07 – Running with Scissors (Murphy, 2006): ***
02/10/07 – Duck Season (Eimbcke, 2006): **1/2
02/11/07 – Wah-Wah (Grant, 2006): **1/2
02/11/07 – Hollywoodland (Coulter, 2006): ***
02/12/07 – The Boynton Beach Club (Seidelman, 2006): *
02/13/07 – The U.S. vs. John Lennon (Leaf and Scheinfeld, 2006): **1/2
02/13/07 – The Quiet (Babbit, 2006): *1/2
02/15/07 – Infamous (McGrath, 2006): ***
02/16/07 – Waist Deep (Curtis-Hall, 2006): *
02/17/07 – Tristram Shandy: A **** and Bull Story (Winterbottom, 2006): **
02/18/07 – Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Zhang, 2006): **
02/21/07 – Crossover (Whitmore II, 2006): 1/2-a-star
02/22/07 – The Puffy Chair (Duplass, 2006): *1/2
02/23/07 – Kinky Boots (Jarrold, 2006): *1/2
02/25/07 – The Godfather of Green Bay (Schwaba, 2006): *1/2
02/25/07 – A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Montiel, 2006): ***1/2
Total number of films seen in February: 30
Total number of films seen for the first time in February: 30
March
Cinema (out of four stars)
03/03/07 – Zodiac (Fincher, 2007): ***
03/04/07 – Bridge to Terabithia (Csupo, 2007): ***
03/04/07 – Wild Hogs (Becker, 2007): *1/2
03/11/07 – 300 (Snyder, 2007): ***1/2
03/20/07 – Notes on a Scandal (Eyre, 2006): ***
03/23/07 – Wild Hogs (Becker, 2007): *1/2
03/24/07 – The Astronaut Farmer (Polish, 2007): ***
03/25/07 – 300 (Snyder, 2007): ***1/2
03/25/07 – The Last Mimzy (Shaye, 2007): *
03/31/07 – Pride (Gonera, 2007): **1/2
03/31/07 – Blades of Glory (Gordon and Speck, 2007): *1/2
DVD (out of four stars)
03/06/07 – Let’s Go to Prison (Odenkirk, 2006): 1/2-a-star
03/09/07 – The Return (Kapadia, 2006): 1/2-a-star
03/09/07 – Haven (Flowers, 2006): *1/2
03/10/07 – Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (Lynch, 2006): *
03/10/07 – Fast Food Nation (Linklater, 2006): *1/2
03/13/07 – National Lampoon’s Spring Break 24/7 (Beck, 2007): 1/2-a-star
03/13/07 – The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (Berlinger, 2007): 1/2-a-star
03/18/07 – Pulse (Sonzero, 2006): *
03/19/07 – Stoned (Woolley, 2006): *1/2
03/25/07 – Confetti (Isitt, 2006): **
03/25/07 – Idlewild (Barber, 2006): **1/2
03/26/07 – Blood Diamond (Zwick, 2006): ***1/2
03/27/07 – Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (Nathan, 2006): 1/2-a-star
03/27/07 – Turistas (Stockwell, 2006): *1/2
03/28/07 – Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang, 2006): **1/2
03/28/07 – Color Me Kubrick (Cook, 2007): **1/2
03/29/07 – Eragon (Fangmeier, 2006): *1/2
Total number of films seen in March: 28
Total number of films seen for the first time in March: 26
April
Cinema (out of four stars)
04/01/07 – Shooter (Fuqua, 2007): **1/2
04/02/07 – Meet the Robinsons (Anderson, 2007): **
04/04/07 – Are We Done Yet? (Carr, 2007): 1/2-a-star]
04/05/07 – Firehouse Dog (Holland, 2007): *
04/07/07 – The Reaping (Hopkins, 2007): 1/2-a-star
04/07/07 – Grindhouse (Rodriguez and Tarantino, 2007): ***
04/16/07 – Disturbia (Caruso, 2007): **
04/17/07 – The Italian (Kravchuk, 2007): ***
04/23/07 – TMNT (Munroe, 2007): *
04/27/07 – Next (Tamahori, 2007): *1/2
04/28/07 – Fracture (Hoblit, 2007): ***
04/29/07 – Reign Over Me (Binder, 2007): **1/2
DVD (out of four stars)
04/01/07 – Candy (Armfield, 2006): ***
04/04/07 – Death of a President (Range, 2006): **1/2
04/06/07 – My First Wedding (Firode, 2006): 1/2-a-star
04/10/07 – Charlotte’s Web (Winick, 2006): **1/2
04/11/07 – How to Eat Fried Worms (Dolman, 2006): 1/2-a-star
04/12/07 – Sleeping Dogs Lie (Goldthwait, 2006): *
04/13/07 – An American Haunting (Solomon, 2006): *
04/15/07 – 3 Needles (Fitzgerald, 2006): *1/2
04/16/07 – Zoom (Hewitt, 2006): 1/2-a-star
04/18/07 – American Hardcore (Rachman, 2006): *1/2
04/18/07 – Freedom Writers (LaGravenese, 2007): **1/2
04/26/07 – Code Name: The Cleaner (Mayfield, 2007): 1/2-a-star
04/27/07 – Thr3e (Henson, 2007): 1/2-a-star
04/28/07 – Spider-Man (Raimi, 2002): **1/2
04/30/07 – Deja Vu (Scott, 2006): ***
04/30/07 – 10 Items or Less (Silberling, 2006): *1/2
04/30/07 – Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004): **1/2
Total number of films seen in April: 29
Total number of films seen for the first time in April: 28
May
Cinema (out of four stars)
05/05/07 – Lucky You (Hanson, 2007): *1/2
05/05/07 – Spider-Man 3 (Raimi, 2007): **1/2
05/08/07 – Premonition (Yapo, 2007): *1/2
05/12/07 – Amazing Grace (Apted, 2007): *
05/17/07 – Shrek the Third (Hui and Miller, 2007): *1/2
05/19/07 – Georgia Rule (Marshall, 2007): **
05/23/07 – Disturbia (Caruso, 2007): **
05/27/07 – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Verbinski, 2007): ***
DVD (out of four stars)
05/01/07 – Alpha Dog (Cassavetes, 2007): *
05/01/07 – The Hitcher (Meyers, 2007): *1/2
05/02/07 – Happily N’Ever After (Bolger and Kaplan, 2007): *
05/06/07 – Caffeine (Cosgrove, 2007): 1/2-a-star
05/06/07 – Little Children (Field, 2006): ***1/2
05/07/07 – Shrek (Adamson and Jenson, 2001): ***
05/08/07 – Shrek 2 (Adamson, Asbury and Vernon, 2004): ***1/2
05/10/07 – Deliver Us from Evil (Berg, 2006): ***
05/11/07 – The Painted Veil (Curran, 2006): **1/2
05/12/07 – Breaking and Entering (Minghella, 2007): **
05/13/07 – Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (McKay, 2004): **
05/13/07 – Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (Shainberg, 2006): *1/2
05/16/07 – The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006): **
05/17/07 – Seraphim Falls (Von Ancken, 2007): ***
05/17/07 – The Dead Girl (Moncrieff, 2006): **
05/18/07 – Night at the Museum (Garant and Lennon, 2006): **
05/21/07 – Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006): ****
05/24/07 – The Breed (Mastandrea, 2007): 1/2-a-star
05/24/07 – Venus (Michell, 2006): **
05/26/07 – Epic Movie (Friedberg and Seltzer, 2007): 1/2-a-star
05/26/07 – Best in Show (Guest, 2000): ***
Total number of films seen in May: 29
Total number of films seen for the first time in May: 25
June
Cinema (out of four stars)
06/01/07 – Mr. Brooks (Evans, 2007): *1/2
06/02/07 – Knocked Up (Apatow, 2007): **1/2
06/02/07 – Bug (Friedkin, 2007): ***
06/08/07 – Ocean’s Thirteen (Soderbergh, 2007): **
06/15/07 – Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Story, 2007): *
06/15/07 – Surf’s Up (Brannon and Buck, 2007): *1/2
06/16/07 – The Namesake (Nair, 2007): ***1/2
06/16/07 – Hostel: Part II (Roth, 2007): 1/2-a-star
DVD (out of four stars)
06/01/07 – The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach, 2005): ***1/2
06/05/07 – Hannibal Rising (Webber, 2007): 1/2-a-star
06/06/07 – The Messengers (Pang and Pang, 2007): *
06/09/07 – Life as a House (Winkler, 2001): **1/2
06/12/07 – Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls (Perry, 2007): *
06/13/07 – Breach (Ray, 2007): **1/2
06/17/07 – Norbit (Robbins, 2007): 1/2-a-star
06/17/07 – Primeval (Katleman, 2007): *
06/19/07 – Reno 911!: Miami (Garant, 2007) *
06/20/07 – Diggers (Dieckmann, 2007): *
06/27/07 – Black Snake Moan (Brewer, 2007): **
06/30/07 – A Prairie Home Companion (Altman, 2006): ****
Total number of films seen in June: 20
Total number of films seen for the first time in June: 18
July
Cinema (out of four stars)
07/04/07 – Live Free or Die Hard (Wiseman, 2007): *1/2
07/04/07 – Ratatouille (Bird, 2007): ***
07/05/07 – Evan Almighty (Shadyac, 2007): *1/2
07/06/07 – Transformers (Bay, 2007): **
07/07/07 – Waitress (Shelly, 2007): ***1/2
07/07/07 – License to Wed (Kwapis, 2007): 1/2-a-star
07/15/07 – Ratatouille (Bird, 2007): ***
07/20/07 – I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Dugan, 2007): *
07/21/07 – Hairspray (Shankman, 2007): **1/2
07/24/07 – Chalk (Akel, 2006): ***
07/27/07 – The Simpsons Movie (Silverman, 2007): **1/2
DVD (out of four stars)
07/01/07 – Gray Matters (Kramer, 2007): *
07/01/07 – Dead Silence (Wan, 2007): 1/2-a-star
07/08/07 – The Family Stone (Bezucha, 2005): **1/2
07/09/07 – The Abandoned (Cerda, 2007): *1/2
07/15/07 – Little Children (Field, 2006): ***1/2
07/22/07 – The Hills Have Eyes (Aja, 2006): *1/2
07/28/07 – The Number 23 (Schumacher, 2007):*
07/28/07 – Slow Burn (Beach, 2007): *1/2
07/28/07 – The Host (Bong, 2007): **
07/29/07 – The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Weisz, 2007): 1/2-a-star
07/29/07 – Letters from Iwo Jima (Eastwood, 2006): ****
Total number of films seen in July: 22
Total number of films seen for the first time in July: 18
August
Cinema (out of four stars)
08/01/07 – I Know Who Killed Me (Siverston, 2007): 1/2-a-star
08/02/08 – Sicko (Moore, 2007): ***1/2
08/03/07 – The Simpsons Movie (Silverman, 2007): **1/2
08/08/07 – Away from Her (Polley, 2007): ***1/2
DVD (out of four stars)
08/07/07 – Hot Fuzz (Wright, 2007): **
08/11/07 – I Think I Love My Wife (Rock, 2007): *1/2
08/12/07 – You’re Gonna Miss Me (McAlester, 2007): *
08/13/07 – The Salon (Brown, 2007): 1/2-a-star
Total number of films seen in August: 8
Total number of films seen for the first time in August: 7
Total number of films seen in 2007: 192
Total number of films seen for the first time in 2007: 178
DVDs PURCHASED IN 2007
01/07/07 – Million Dollar Baby 3-Disc Deluxe Edition (Eastwood, 2004)
01/20/07 – Crash 2-Disc Director’s Cut Edition (Haggis, 2005)
01/23/07 – Brokeback Mountain 2-Disc Collector’s Edition (Lee, 2005)
02/13/07 – The Departed Two-Disc Special Edition (Scorsese, 2006)
02/13/07 – Half Nelson (Fleck, 2006)
02/16/07 – 24: Season One
02/18/07 – Sports Night: The Complete Series Boxed Set
02/25/07 – Shut Up and Sing (Kopple and Peck, 2006)
04/10/07 – Major League Wild Thing Edition (Ward, 1989)
05/01/07 – Dreamgirls 2-Disc Showstopper Edition (Condon, 2006)
07/01/07 – 24: Season Two
08/04/07 – Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, 2001)
08/05/07 – The Shield: Season One
