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August 2012
NEW IN THEATERSHOPE SPRINGS (2012)—Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play an aging married couple who don't have sex anymore (his choice, not hers). In a last-ditch attempt to bring the spark back into...
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September 2012
With the new TV season in full swing, various work obligations, weekend trips to Las Vegas and San Jose, respectively, and the loss of my movie companion, I saw only three new movies in September (and...
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October 2012
Despite the new TV season being in full swing, I made a point to recover from last year's mediocre movie-going activity by really throwing myself into the cinema. Some of that was due to Joan making...
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November 2012
With 13 first-run movies screened, I believe November represents a personal record in the most number of feature films viewed in a single month, at least in recent memory. Naturally, my grades are all...
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December 2012
As the year drew to a close, I hurtled off to the chilly mountains of northern Georgia for the Christmas holiday and endeavored to catch up on some of the movies I missed in the preceding 12 months. In...
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Most Anticipated Films of 2013
For the fourth year in a row, I am devoting an entry in my movie blog to upcoming releases that I'm particularly excited to see in the year ahead. As always, when I look back at the previous year's...
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January 2013
I did not deliberately set out to try my Movie-a-Day experiment again, but I was able to fit so many in, it kind of worked out that way. Even if I'm not able to close out the year with 365 films under...
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February 2013
January was my "movie a day" month, but because of a week-long business/pleasure trip to South Florida, it proved impossible for me to continue that trend. Even so, I was able to work in another...
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March 2013
For a variety of reasons, I saw only one new release in the theater this month. That's OK—I have about a million movies on my hard drive. Funny how certain stars—Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Robert...
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April 2013
Only six movies this month! This is owing to a variety of factors, starting with the fact that I had a houseguest for a couple of days. Then I was distracted by the third appropriation of my debit card...
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May 2013
This month was highlighted by a trip to Florida, where my nephew Joshua had his Bar Mitzvah ceremony and celebration (including numerous parties and his unrelated violin performance in a middle-school...
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June 2013
The TV season officially over, I can devote more attention to the movies. Amazing to me how many of these I never even heard of a mere month ago. But things suddenly pop up on the radar, and I need to...
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July 2013
Although I took the trouble to visit the local cinemas about 10 times this month, I barely paid any attention to home releases because I rather suddenly decided to start working my way through five...
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August 2013
Owing to the fact that I decided to watch all five seasons of Twilight Zone, more or less chronologically, I only wound up seeing four movies in August. Of course, it didn't help that pickings are...
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September 2013
By the end of September, I had finished watching the first two seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which represents 78 episodes, or roughly 34 hours—the equivalent of 17 two-hour movies. It's been a...
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October 2013
This will probably be a slightly abbreviated entry, as I haven't been feeling great lately and it's uncomfortable to sit in front of a computer. Briefly, I have continued on my Alfred Hitchcock...
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December 2013
After November managed to pass without a single movie viewed (owing to both an extended sickness and the fact that I was continuing to binge-watch old episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents), I hoped to...
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January 2014
This month I finished my marathon viewing of Alfred Hitchcock Presents—268 half-hour episodes. (Time will tell if I leap into the three seasons of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, which represents another 93...
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March 2014
My movie consumption hit an all-time low in February, when I continued to focus more closely on watching TV series. With all of my Alfred Hitchcock Presents dispensed with, I turned to the popular show...
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April 2014
TV continued to compete for the attention I would normally be giving to the movies in April. In fact, I was able to binge-watch a couple of limited-run series in their entirety this month: Christopher...
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