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)

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Fuck off!

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