WATCHLIST :: DECEMBER 2015

1st

Metal Gear (PS3)

4th

The Knick (2 episodes)

7th

Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)

11th

The Knick (1 episode)

14th

The Knick (1 episode)

18th

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams)
The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan)

19th

The Knick (1 episode)

21st

Fargo (4 episodes)

22nd

Fargo (5 episodes)
Pearl Jam - Ten

23rd

Twin Peaks (1 episode)

24th

The Beatles - Please Please Me
The Beatles - With The Beatles
Coldplay - Parachutes

25th

The National - The National

26th

David Bowie - David Bowie

27th

A Very Murray Christmas (Sofia Coppola)

28th

Making A Murderer (3 episodes)
Twin Peaks (1 episode)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

29th

Making A Murderer (2 episodes)
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)

30th

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Chiraq (Spike Lee)

31st

Game of Thrones (1 episode)
Pan (Joe Wright)
Twin Peaks (1 episode)
The X-Files (2 episodes)

WATCHLIST :: NOVEMBER 2015

1st

Jaws (Steven Spielberg)

2nd

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
1941 (Steven Spielberg)

3rd

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)

4th

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)

5th

The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)

6th

The Knick (1 episode)
The National - Cherry Tree

7th

Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)

8th

Always (Steven Spielberg)

9th

Hook (Steven Spielberg)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)

10th

Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)

12th

Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)

13th

The Gift (Joel Edgerton)

14th

Inside Out (Pete Doctor)
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

15th

The Kid (Charles Chaplin)

16th

Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)

19th

Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg)

20th

Entertainment (Rick Alverson)

21st

Eureka (Nicolas Roeg)
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (PS4)

27th

The Knick (2 episodes)

30th

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PS4)

WATCHLIST :: OCTOBER 2015

2nd

Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Vs.
The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans)
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

3rd

Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)

4th

Alien (Ridley Scott)
The Beginner's Guide (PC)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)

5th

Legend (Ridley Scott)

6th

Someone to Watch Over Me (Ridley Scott)

7th

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Pearl Jam - No Code
The Beatles - Please Please Me
The Beatles - With The Beatles
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

8th

The Beatles - Beatles for Sale
The Beatles - Help!
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles - The Beatles
The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Let it Be
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Massive Attack - Protection
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Massive Attack - 100th Window
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album

9th

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
Daft Punk - Homework
Daft Punk - Discovery
Daft Punk - Human After All
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

10th

AC/DC - High Voltage (International)
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

11th

Nirvana - Nevermind

12th

The X-Files (1 episode)

13th

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2 episodes)
Fargo (1 episode)

14th

Pearl Jam - Yield
The X-Files (2 episodes)

15th

The X-Files (1 episode)
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (1 episode)
The X-Files (1 episode)
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (1 episode)

The X-Files (2 episodes)
Pearl Jam - Binaural
Pearl Jam - Riot Act
The X-Files (2 episodes)

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (1 episode)

16th

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (1 episode)

The X-Files (1 episode)

17th

The X-Files (1 episode)

18th

Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

19th

The X-Files (3 episodes)

21st

The X-Files (1 episode)

23rd

The Knick (1 episode)
Performance (Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg)

24th

AC/DC - High Voltage (Australian)

25th

Arrested Development (1 episode)
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)

26th

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PC)

27th

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

28th

Duel (Steven Spielberg)

29th

Metal Gear (PS3)
The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg)

30th

The Knick (1 episode)

WATCHLIST :: SEPTEMBER 2015

5th

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PS4)

8th

The Chemical Brothers - Born in the Echoes
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)

10th

John Lennon - Imagine
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

11th

David Bowie - David Bowie
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Explosions In the Sky & David Wingo - Manglehorn (Soundtrack)
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

12th

Kanye West - Late Registration
Pearl Jam - Ten
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

13th

Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Paul McCartney - McCartney
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Orbital - Wonky
Samaris - Samaris
Talk Talk - The Party's Over

14th

Paul McCartney - McCartney II
Massive Attack - Protection
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Radiohead - Kid A
Ratatat - Magnifique
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92

15th

Radiohead - Amnesiac
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Stooges - Raw Power
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Les Rythmes Digitales - Darkdancer
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3 AM

16th

Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
Pixies - Doolittle
AC/DC - High Voltage

17th

Weezer - Weezer (Blue)
Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby

18th

Metal Gear (PS3)

19th

Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
Wide Awake (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
Gruen (1 episode)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)

20th

Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan)
Gruen (1 episode)
Lady In the Water (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)

21st

The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan)
After Earth (M. Night Shyamalan)
Coldplay - Ghost Stories

22nd

David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Daft Punk - Homework
Daft Punk - Discovery

Daft Punk - Human After All

24th

Grand Theft Auto III (PC)
The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan)

25th

Silversun Pickups - Better Nature

27th

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PC)

28th

Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do
Daft Punk - Alive 1997

29th

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Duellists (Ridley Scott)

THE VISIT :: A REVIEW

DANNY BOYLE (1994 - 2015)

WATCHLIST :: AUGUST 2015

2nd

Policenauts (PS1)

3rd

True Detective (1 episode)
The X-Files (1 episode)

4th

Metal Gear Solid (PS1)

7th

The Knick (2 episodes)

10th

True Detective (1 episode)

11th

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS3)

14th

The Knick (1 episode)
Mr Robot (1 episode)
The X-Files (1 episode)
Lost (1 episode)

15th

David Bowie - David Bowie
The Director's Chair (2 episodes)

19th

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS3)

20th

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

21st

The Knick (2 episodes)

27th

The Beatles - Please Please Me

28th

The Knick (1 episode)
She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee)

30th

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (PS4)

31st

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

WATCHLIST :: JULY 2015

1st

The X-Files (2 episodes)

2nd

The X-Files (2 episodes)

3rd

Muse - Drones
The X-Files (1 episode)
Blur - The Magic Whip
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Pearl Jam - Ten

4th

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
AC/DC - High Voltage [International]
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

5th

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Queen - A Night At the Opera
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Michael Jackson - Thriller

6th

Thom Yorke - The Eraser
U2 - Songs of Innocence
Muse - The 2nd Law
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Sex, Lies & Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)

7th

Blur - Blur
Kafka (Steven Soderbergh)
Blur - 13
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Blur - Think Tank
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)

8th

Pixies - Doolittle
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Underneath (Steven Soderbergh)

9th

Gray's Anatomy (Steven Soderbergh)

10th

Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh)
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)

11th

Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)

12th

Talk Talk - The Party's Over
Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh)
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)

13th

The Good German (Steven Soderbergh)
Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh)
The National - Trouble Will Find Me

14th

Che Part One (Steven Soderbergh)

15th

Che Part Two (Steven Soderbergh)

16th

The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh)

17th

The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)


18th

And Everything Is Going Fine (Steven Soderbergh)
Her Story (PC)
Kelly
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh)

19th

Haywire (Steven Soderbergh)
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)

20th

Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)

21st

True Detective (1 episode)

22nd

True Detective (2 episodes)
The Walking Dead (1 episode)

23rd

Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)

24th

The Knick (2 episodes)
Metal Gear (PS3)

25th

Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)

26th

Metal Gear (PS3)
Performance (Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg)

27th

True Detective (1 episode)

28th

The Guest (Adam Wingard)
Snatcher (Sega CD)
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (PS3)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)

31st

The Knick (2 episodes)
Mr Robot (1 episode)

TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH...

Paranormal Activity 3 is the best of the series

CinemaSins is damaging online criticism

I just don't get Blade Runner

The Dark Knight Rises is still better than Batman Begins

Prometheus > Alien

Coldplay is just dandy

Leave Paul Haggis' Crash alone

Confused Matthew should just shut the fuck up

The Informer is John Ford's best film

The Funny Games remake must be defended

Slumdog Millionaire deserved its Oscars

Ocean's Twelve is better than its predecessor

Inception isn't trash

The Village is M. Night Shyamalan's best film

RedLetterMedia is losing me because of Boyhood

WATCHLIST :: JUNE 2015

1st

The National - Trouble Will Find Me

12th

Grand Theft Auto V (PC)

16th

The X-Files (1 episode)

19th

Manglehorn (David Gordon Green)

20th

The X-Files (1 episode)

21st

The X-Files (1 episode)
True Detective (1 episode)
They Came Together (David Wain)

22nd

True Detective (4 episodes)

23rd

True Detective (2 episodes)
The Mikado
True Detective (2 episodes)

25th

The X-Files (2 episodes)

26th

The X-Files (2 episodes)

27th

Incendies (Denis Villeneuve)
Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve)

28th

The X-Files (3 episodes)

29th

Spoon - They Want Your Soul
The X-Files (2 episodes)
True Detective (1 episode)
Blur - Leisure
Jon Hopkins - Inside

30th

The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina - The Machine of Gods
The X-Files (1 episode)

DENIS VILLENEUVE (1998 - 2015)

WATCHLIST :: MAY 2015

1st

Wayward Pines (1 episode)
The X-Files (2 episodes)
Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The X-Files (1 episode)

2nd

The X-Files (1 episode)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Suicide - Suicide

3rd

The X-Files (4 episodes)

4th

The X-Files (2 episodes)

6th

Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)

7th

No Holds Barred (Thomas J. Wright)

8th

Superman (Richard Donner)
It's Trad, Dad! (Richard Lester)

9th

The Mouse on the Moon (Richard Lester)
A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
The Knack... and How to Get it (Richard Lester)
Help! (Richard Lester)

10th

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Richard Lester)
How I Won the War (Richard Lester)
Petulia (Richard Lester)

11th

The Bed-Sitting Room (Richard Lester)

15th

The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester)
Juggernaut (Richard Lester)

16th

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)

17th

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg)

18th

Blackhat (Michael Mann)

20th

The Witches (Nicolas Roeg)
Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)

21st

It's Such A Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
Community (1 episode)

22nd

Performance (Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg)

29th

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (PC)

31st

Metal Gear (MSX2)

WATCHLIST :: APRIL 2015

3rd

House of Cards (1 episode)
The Wire (1 episode)
The X-Files (1 episode)

4th

House of Cards (2 episodes)
The X-Files (1 episode)
House of Cards (5 episodes)

5th

House of Cards (2 episodes)
The X-Files (2 episodes)

6th

Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris)

7th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

8th

The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Blur - Leisure

9th

Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All of His Friends
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
The X-Files (1 episode)
Coldplay - Ghost Stories
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Outkast - Aquemini
B.B. King - Live from Cook County Jail
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

10th

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)

11th

Daredevil (1 episode)

13th

The Informer (John Ford)

15th

The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg)

17th

Daredevil (1 episode)

18th

Daredevil (1 episode)

19th

Daredevil (1 episode)

20th

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Jaws (Steven Spielberg)

21st

Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
David Byrne & Brian Eno - My Life In the Bush of Ghosts
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Pearl Jam - Ten

22nd

Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Pearl Jam - Vs.

23rd

Daredevil (1 episode)
Life Itself (Steve James)
Baraka (Ron Fricke)

24th

Daredevil (1 episode)

25th

The X-Files (2 episodes)
Visitors (Godfrey Reggio)
The X-Files (1 episode)

26th

The National - Cherry Tree
Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
The X-Files (1 episode)

30th

Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)

IN MEMORIAM :: ANDREW LESNIE

1956 - 2015

PHIL LORD & CHRISTOPHER MILLER (2009 - 2014)

TOP 10 DISAPPOINTMENTS OF THE 2010s (SO FAR)

Fuck off!

INCEPTION :: A REVIEW

WATCHLIST :: MARCH 2015

3rd

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

5th

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (PS4)

6th

The Knick (1 episode)

7th

The Secret of Monkey Island (PC)
Maniac Mansion (PC)

8th

Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy (PC)

10th

Day of the Tentacle (PC)
Better Call Saul (1 episode)

11th

LeChuck's Revenge: Monkey Island 2 (PS3)

13th

The Knick (1 episode)

15th

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)

17th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

19th

Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle)

20th

Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)

22nd

Open Windows (Nacho Vigalondo)

23rd

Grand Piano (Eugenio Mira)
Maniac (Franck Khalfoun)

24th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

25th

Horns (Alexandre Aja)

27th

Insidious: Chapter 2 (James Wan)

28th

House of Cards (4 episodes)

29th

House of Cards (5 episodes)
Twin Peaks (1 episode)

30th

Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 (Lars Von Trier)
House of Cards (10 episodes)

31st

House of Cards (1 episode)
Better Call Saul (1 episode)
Nymphomaniac Vol. 2 (Lars Von Trier)
House of Cards (1 episode)

FAHRENHEIT: INDIGO PROPHECY :: A REVIEW

WATCHLIST :: FEBRUARY 2015

3rd

Sorcerer (William Friedkin)
Bug (William Friedkin)
Star Wars Rebels (1 episode)

4th

The Guardian (William Friedkin)

6th

Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

9th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

10th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)

13th

Hannibal (1 episode)

14th

The Knick (1 episode)

15th

The Knick (1 episode)

16th

The Knick (3 episodes)

17th

The Knick (5 episodes)
Better Call Saul (1 episode)

19th

Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)

21st

Star Wars Rebels (1 episode)
House of Cards (1 episode)

22nd

House of Cards (4 episodes)
Twin Peaks (1 episode)

23rd

House of Cards (1 episode)

24th

House of Cards (1 episode)

26th

Better Call Saul (1 episode)
House of Cards (1 episode)

THEY'VE GOT MAH VOTE :: 87TH ACADEMY AWARDS

This list only contains categories of films that I have seen. Also I purposefully neglected to leave out the Best Supporting Actor category because I'm certain I would choose J.K. Simmons but I have not seen Whiplash yet. So whatever...

Best Visual Effects - Interstellar

Best Editing - Sandra Adair (Boyhood)

Best Costume Design - Mark Bridges (Inherent Vice)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)

Best Production Design - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Sound Mixing - Interstellar

Best Sound Editing - Interstellar

Best Original Song - 'Everything is Awesome' (The Lego Movie)

Best Original Score - Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)

Best Original Screenplay - Birdman

Best Adapted Screenplay - Inherent Vice

Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

Best Actress - Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)

Best Actor - Michael Keaton (Birdman)

Best Director - Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

Best Picture - Boyhood

DAVID CRONENBERG (1969 - 2014)

FIRST TIMERS :: JANUARY 2015

3rd

Boyhood [Film]

7th

Slacker [Film]

8th

Birdman [Film]

9th

Star Wars Rebels S01E09 [TV]

13th

The Eric Andre Show S03E08 [TV]

16th

Magic in the Moonlight [Film]

19th

The Eric Andre Show S03E09 [TV]
Miami Vice S01E01 [TV]
Miami Vice S01E02 [TV]
Orange Is The New Black S01E01 [TV]
Frank [Film]

20th

Star Wars Rebels S01E10 [TV]

26th

The Eric Andre Show S03E10 [TV]

30th

The French Connection [Film]

THE FRENCH CONNECTION :: A REVIEW

WHAT NOT TO DO

rip-off

noun

informal

a fraud or swindle, especially something that is grossly overpriced.

an inferior imitation of something.

FIRST TIMERS :: DECEMBER 2014

1st

The Double Life Of Véronique [Film]

2nd

F for Fake [Film]
City of the Living Dead [Film]

6th

CSS - Planta [Album]

7th

The Eric Andre Show S03E05 [TV]

15th

The Eric Andre Show S03E06 [TV]

17th

Blood Meridian [Novel]

18th

The Man in the High Castle [Novel]

22nd

The Eric Andre Show S03E07 [TV]

23rd

Tusk [Film]

25th

Greed [Film]

29th

Charlie's Country [Film]

31st

Pink Floyd - The Endless River [Album]

BOYHOOD :: A REVIEW

Fuck the haters! This is one of the best films of 2014.