- Beasts of the Southern Wild!
- Dark Knight Rises!
- Magic Mike! (Cheeky Tatum Channing cheeks evoke the most entertaining Manohla Dargis review in aaaages!)
- Mirror, Mirror! (Self has developed such a fondness for Armie Hammer!)
- Moonrise Kingdom! (If there were an Oscar for “Best Casting,” Moonrise Kingdom would win, hands down)
- Skyfall! (The best James Bond movie EVER. All hail, Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, and Sam Mendes!)
- Sleepwalk with Me! (Saw this with son and Jennie in Claremont: FIVE STARS! Bravo, Mike Birbiglia!)
- Snow White and the Huntsman! (Self is not repelled by K-Stew, she just isn’t! Sorry, Niece G!)
- The Avengers! (Luuuv Tom Hiddleston!)
- The Raid: Redemption! (Self was in Edinburgh, avidly describing this movie to an Indonesian student who had just taken the seat next to hers. “OK, OK, I’ll watch it right away!” he promised self. Dear blog readers, this was the best action movie of 2012. No, wait: the second best, after Skyfall!)
Much adjusting will be made in the next month or so, self is sure, dear blog readers. After all, she still hasn’t seen A Late Quartet, Argo, Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis supposed to be just phenomenal in this one!) and The Details.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 