WATCHLIST :: MARCH 2024

1st

Metal Gear (PS5)

Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)

2nd

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Dune (Denis Villeneuve)

4th

Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)

8th

Schmigadoon! (1 episode)

9th

The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)

Stir (Stephen Wallace)

10th

Schmigadoon! (2 episodes)

11th

Schmigadoon! (3 episodes)

12th

Drive-Away Dolls (Ethan Coen)

15th

Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars

Green Day - Saviors

16th

Shark Tale (Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, Rob Letterman)

20th

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson)

The Swan (Wes Anderson)

The Rat Catcher (Wes Anderson)

Poison (Wes Anderson)

22nd

Men (Alex Garland)

23rd

Matilda (Danny DeVito)

24th

Vampire Weekend - Contra

Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)

21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)

25th

Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)

Blonde Death (James Robert Baker)

27th

Green Day - Warning

Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods

28th

New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies

30th

Death to Smoochy (Danny DeVito)

Always for Pleasure (Les Blank)

31st

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog)

96TH ACADEMY AWARDS PICKS

Note: Missing categories means I haven't seen any of the films listed in them.

Picture - Oppenheimer

Director - Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Actor - Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Actress - Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Supporting Actress - America Ferrera (Barbie)

Adapted Screenplay - Tony McNamara (Poor Things)

International Feature - The Zone of Interest

Score - Robbie Robertson (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Song - I'm Just Ken (Barbie)

Sound - The Zone of Interest

Production Design - Killers of the Flower Moon

Cinematography - Hoyte van Hoytema (Oppenheimer)

Makeup and Hairstyling - Poor Things

Costume Design - Poor Things

Editing - Jennifer Lame (Oppenheimer)

Visual Effects - The Creator

WATCHLIST :: FEBRUARY 2024

1st

 

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

2nd

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

3rd

Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)

Silent Hill: The Short Message (PS5)

4th

Metal Gear (PS2)

5th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

The Fall (Jonathan Glazer)

6th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

Genesis - Nursery Cryme

7th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones)

8th

Johnny Mnemonic [William Gibson]

The Gernsback Continuum [William Gibson]

Fragments of a Hologram Rose [William Gibson]

The Belonging Kind [John Shirley, William Gibson]

Hinterlands [William Gibson]

9th

Red Star, Winter Orbit [Bruce Sterling, William Gibson]

10th

Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe)

Young Sherlock Holmes (Barry Levinson)

Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (Douglas Buck)

12th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

13th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

14th

The Smile - Wall of Eyes

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

15th

Dune [Frank Herbert]

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

The People vs Paul Crump (William Friedkin)

16th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

17th

The Exorcist [William Peter Blatty]

18th

The Friedkin Connection [William Friedkin]

19th

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

20th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

21st

Red Dragon [Thomas Harris]

22nd

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

23rd

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds (Glen Milner)

24th

Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro)

26th

The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode)

27th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

WATCHLIST :: JANUARY 2024

1st

 

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

 

2nd

 

Thief (Michael Mann)

The Keep (Michael Mann)

3rd

Manhunter (Michael Mann)

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

Moby - Play

Fargo (1 episode)

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

4th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)

5th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

Batman: The Animated Series (3 episodes)

6th

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante)

7th

Phil Collins - Face Value

8th

Ferrari (Michael Mann)

The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier)

9th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

10th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

Fargo (1 episode)

The X-Files (1 episode)

11th

The X-Files (1 episode)

12th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen)

13th

Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright)

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland)

14th

The X-Files (2 episodes)

15th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

The X-Files (1 episode)

16th

David Bowie - David Bowie

17th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

Fargo (1 episode)

Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi)

Saltburn (Emerald Fennell)

18th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

19th

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

20th

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part One (Christopher McQuarrie)

The Beatles - Please Please Me

21st

The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

 

22nd

 

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

Lou Reed - The Blue Mask

The National - Boxer

 

23rd

 

Lou Reed - Transformer

Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)

24th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)

25th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

26th

Better Call Saul (2 episodes)

27th

The Palace (Roman Polanski)

Permanent Green Light (Zac Farley, Dennis Cooper)

28th

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

29th

El Camino (Vince Gilligan)

30th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention

The Smile - Wall of Eyes

Genesis - From Genesis to Revelation

Genesis - Trespass