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*)