Movies I’ve Seen in 2014

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All the movies I’ve seen this year so that I can keep track of them. Please ask if you’re interested in any of them! :)

Previous year: 2013

::: Animation :::

• Big Hero 6 (would love fanfic of this movie)
• The Boxtrolls
• Despicable Me 2
• Howl’s Moving Castle (because I read the book)
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Frozen
• The LEGO Movie
• The Penguins of Madagascar ( review here)
• Planes

::: Documentaries :::

• The City Dark
• Cosmos (with Neil deGrasse Tyson; beautifully done)
• Disney’s Oceans
• Divorce Corp (terrifying)
• Free to Play
• Inequality for All
• The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
• It’s a Girl
• Jodorowsky’s Dune
• Last Call at the Oasis (California droughts)
• Mission Blue
• Orgasm Inc.
• Pandora’s Promise (about the feasibility of nuclear power)
• The Paw Project (about declawed kitties, so sad)
• Pink Ribbon
• The Queen of Versailles (surprisingly affecting)
• The Revisionaries (about the Texas state school board censoring textbooks)
• Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (I’m a fan)

::: In-Theater Movies :::

• 300: Rise of an Empire
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (embarrassingly bad)
• August: Osage County
• Birdman (I don’t understand the hype about this one)
• Captain America: the Winter Soldier
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• The Edge of Tomorrow (very enjoyable)
• Godzilla
• Gone Girl (twisty and lurid; kept me guessing)
• Guardians of the Galaxy (not a fan; review here)
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (with both Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch; review here)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
• Interstellar (a glorious sensual experience in IMAX)
• The Interview (rented from Amazon)
• Into the Woods (felt sanitized)
• The Imitation Game ( review here)
• Maleficent
• Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
• The Maze Runner (very enjoyable)
• The Neighbors
• Nightcrawler
• Noah
• Pride (with Andrew Scott; amazing-- review here)
• The Raid 2 (amaaaaazing Indonesian action movie)
• Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
• TMNT / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (horrific; childhood-destroying)
• X-Men: Days of Future Past

::: Other Films :::

• 22 Jump Street
• 47 Ronin
• About Time
• Admission (I love Tina Fey, though this wasn’t very funny)
• After Earth
• Anchorman 2
• The Babadook (amazing film, brilliant acting, not really horror)
• The Bachelor Weekend / The Stag (with Andrew Scott; review here)
• Bad Grandpa
• Bad Santa
• Behind the Candelabra
• The Bling Ring
• Boyhood (I admire that this was filmed over 12 years, but I didn’t enjoy it)
• Burton and Taylor
• Lee Daniels’ The Butler
• Byzantium
• Captain Phillips
• Carrie (the 2013 version)
• Citizen Kane (for Sherlocky purposes)
• The Counselor
• Diana (with Naomi Watts)
• Dumb and Dumber To
• East of Eden
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Foxcatcher (Channing Tatum is amazing; not so impressed with Steve Carell)
• Fruitvale Station
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Host
• The Homesman (weird and different Western; I like the focus on problems women had on the frontier)
• Horns (with Daniel Radcliffe; review here)
• The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
• Jersey Boys
• Kill Your Darlings (with Daniel Radcliffe)
• Lawless
• Legacy (2013 BBC movie, with Andrew Scott)
• Locke ( review here)
• Lovelace
• Midnight’s Children
• A Million Ways to Die in the West (not funny)
• Muppets Most Wanted
• Nativity (with Martin Freeman)
• The Normal Heart (aww, Matt Bomer; review here)
• Oblivion
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• On the Road
• Oldboy (not nearly as good as the Korean version)
• The One I Love (yay, Elizabeth Moss!)
• Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
• Philomena
• Ride Along
• Robot and Frank (very cute)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Side Effects
• Snowpiercer
• Think Like a Man (I love Kevin Hart)
• Tusk (viscerally disgusting)
• We’re the Millers
• White Christmas (1954, with Bing Crosby)
• The Zero Theorem (almost didn’t make it through this one)

::: Film (Non-English) :::

• Back to 1942 (Chinese)
• L’Homme Qui Rit (French)
• Headhunters (Norwegian; directed by Morten Tyldum, who directed The Imitation Game)

::: TV / Drama :::

• Animal Planet’s My Cat From Hell (with Jackson Galaxy)
• Bates Motel
• Bob’s Burgers
• Brooklyn 99
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (basically how I get my news nowadays)
• Doctor Who (with Peter Capaldi)
• Fargo (with Martin Freeman)
• Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond (Lara Pulver is in this!)
• House of Cards (season 2, amazing)
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Orange is the New Black (season 2, amazing)
• South Park
• White Collar (the final season…*sobs*)