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December
48
6.3
6.5
2021
Director: Aaron Sorkin
His 3rd movie
My 3rd movie watched from the director
I really loved the structure of the movie, with it taking place over the course of one week and the process of one episode being made, while going back in time to see the development of the couple's relationship. It's not far off from a Sorkin standard and the dialogue is cleverly Sorkin all over, without it being obvious. The dialogue is very good and at points I was thinking it was a sort of departure from his work and then he would hit us with a very Sorkin line.
The acting really impressed me. I wasn't too keen on the choices when announced, because I didn't want to see faces I recognized, but they really get into their characters and the make-up team does a hell of a job.
I love old Hollywood stories and "I Love Lucy" is my Mom's favorite show, which means I watched it a lot growing up, which means this movie had a lovely touch of nostalgia, too. And knowing the show I thought the references and backstage talk was very entertaining.
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Films: Aaron Sorkin (Written and/or Directed by)
Top Ten Performances - Nicole Kidman
Top Ten Performances - Javier Bardem
Best Movies about Old Hollywood
Best Movies of 2021
__________
Location: Los Angeles, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
Stehako's rating:
15
7.3
7.9
2021
Director: Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen
Their 16th movie
My 1st movie watched from the directors
This guy is fucking nuts. I love it. I get much more into the suspense of a climbing documentary than I do most narrative films. This documentary also achieves something risky in itself, and it pays off (spoiler, so I won't say).
Added to Lists:
10 Best Climbing Documentaries
Best Documentaries of the 2020s
__________
Stehako's rating:
102
7.2
6.8
Director: Bob Fosse
His 5th movie (Final Movie)
My 3rd movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Keira Knightley
Favorite Writer Biopics
__________
Location: Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
Stehako's rating:
30
4.1
4.9
Downhill (2020)
Director: Nat Faxon
His 2nd movie
My 2nd movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
__________
Location: ischgl tirol, Austria
Stehako's rating:
359
6.5
7.2
2021
Director: Adam McKay
His 8th movie
My 8th movie watched from the director
Climate crisis propaganda? Sure. Entertaining? Yes. McKay's weakest of his awesome politi-comedies but can't go wrong with this cast. The unnecessary strange editing took me out of it at times and the jokes didn't always land (basically all the Jonah Hill scenes). I will definitely watch this again to see if I can find that McKay brilliance in the details.
Added to Lists:
It's the End of the World as We Know It...
Top Ten Films - Adam McKay
Top Ten Performances - Jennifer Lawrence
Top Ten Performances - Mark Rylance
__________
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Stehako's rating:
33
6.2
6.7
2021
Director: Michael Dowse
His 9th movie
My 3rd movie watched from the director
A fun movie that's working really hard to create nostalgia and hope for being a new Christmas classic. Maybe it will be with this new generation, but as a parent I wasn't blown away.
Added to Lists:
Father and Son Movies
Movies Motivated by Nostalgia
__________
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Stehako's rating:
77
6.4
6.7
Colette (2018)
Director: Wash Westmoreland
His 5th movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Keira Knightley
Favorite Writer Biopics
__________
Location: Paris, France; Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France
Stehako's rating:
89
6.9
7.5
2021
Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
His 3rd movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Big Willy pulls off his best performances since "The Pursuit of Happyness". This really might possibly be his best performances. Maybe I'll determine it after another viewing of "Ali" and this one. The whole cast is superb and the story is worthy and all around a better movie than I expected.
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Will Smith
Top Ten Performances - Jon Bernthal
Favorite Sports Movies of All Time (Top 100)
__________
Location: Compton, CA, USA; Boca Raton, FL, USA
Stehako's rating:
133
7.6
7.6
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Director: Ralph Nelson
His 3rd movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Sidney Poitier
__________
Location: Seattle, WA; Tucson, AZ
Stehako's rating:
442
7.4
8
2021
Director: Denis Villeneuve
His 11th movie
My 7th movie watched from the director
Denis Villeneuve does it again. Everything in this movie is top notch. The only thing I didn't like was the fact I didn't there was a sequel and the ending was a little weak.
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Films - Denis Villeneuve
Top Ten Performances - Rebecca Ferguson
Top Ten Scores - Hans Zimmer
The 50 Best Scores of All Time
__________
Stehako's rating:
85
7.1
7.3
Shenandoah (1965)
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
His 7th movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Life During Wartime
__________
Location: Shenandoah, VA, USA
Stehako's rating:
61
6.5
6.9
2021
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
His 2nd movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Tom Hanks doing a hell of a job with the one-man show! God, he's fucking great. This movie is nothing special, sure, but it's so watchable because of Hanxy. Give him a god-damned Oscar again, not that they matter much any more.
Added to Lists:
One-Character Movies
Apocalypse Soon
The Alphabet of Tom Hanks
__________
Location: St. Louis, MO, USA
Stehako's rating:
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November
189
7
7.1
2021
Director: Wes Anderson
His 10th movie
My 10th movie watched from the director
Such a beautifully-constructed movie about the love of writing, stories, and humanity. Wes Anderson has taken it up yet another notch with this series of short stories and ode to "The New Yorker".
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Films - Wes Anderson
Black and White Films in the Modern Era: 1980 - Present
Biggest and Brightest Casts
Successful Series-of-Short-Stories Films
Top Ten Performances - Jeffrey Wright
Top Ten Performances - Léa Seydoux
Top Ten Performances - Tim Chalamet
Top Ten Performances - Benecio del Toro
Best Edited Films of All Time
Best Production Design of All Time
Best Costume Design of All Time
Best Movie Scripts of All Time
__________
Location: Liberty, KS, USA; Ennui, France
Stehako's rating:
196
6.8
6.9
Director: Boots Riley
His 1st movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
I love this kind of movie, where it's mostly a real-life setting but has fantastical elements. It's sharply edited, well-written, and the actors/characters keep us engaged. I'm still not sure what to think of the ending yet; but it's also the kind of movie that didn't really even need a proper ending.
Added to Lists:
Best Directing Debuts
Top Ten Performances - Lakeith Stanfield
Top Ten Performances - Tessa Thompson
Top Ten Performances - Armie Hammer
__________
Location: Oakland, CA
Stehako's rating:
146
7
7.4
2021
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
His 4th movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
A lovely and restrained movie about family and trying to make it in this shitty world.
Added to Lists:
Titles You Can Taste
__________
Location: Northwest Arkansas
Stehako's rating:
161
5.6
6.3
2021
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
His 6th movie
My 4th movie watched from the director
A notably paint-by-numbers algorithm-based action-comedy movie. But hey, it's still entertaining and a fine movie to watch when you just want some brainless fun. It's a new movie better than most of the new movies that fit under that description.
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Gal Gadot
Iconic Dresses of Cinema - Red
__________
Location: Rome, Russia, Argentina, Indonesia, Egypt
Stehako's rating:
660
5.6
6
Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
Director: Mark Waters
His 9th movie
My 2nd movie watched from the director
__________
Location: Manhattan, Mew York
Stehako's rating:
5
7.5
6.1
Director: Erroll Morris
His 12th movie
My 8th movie watched from the director
For me, Timothy Leary has always been a mysterious character in the counter-culture history of the US. This documentary, by the great Erroll Morris, gives unique insight into his happenings. It's also very creatively edited and well-done, even if not wholly interesting or entertaining. I'm confused by the low rating on IMDb.
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Films - Erroll Morris
Stehako's rating:
57
7.3
7.4
2021
Director: Kevin Macdonald
His 20th movie
My 6th movie watched from the director
Yet another example of an 'unknown' story about modern issues where the US is kind of evil and fucked up. Very nicely acted by Rahim and most of the cast.
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Films - Kevin Macdonald
Top Ten Performances - Jodie Foster
Top Ten Performances - Tahar Rahim
Top Ten Performances - Benedict Cumberbatch
When the USA is on the Wrong Side of History
__________
Location: Washington DC; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Stehako's rating:
399
7.8
7.7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Director: Robert Altman
His 7th movie
My 13th movie watched from the director
Christie and Beatty are great in this unique approach to the western, in only the way Altman can do.
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Films - Robert Altman
Top Ten Performances - Julie Christie
Top Ten Performances - Warren Beatty
Best Westerns
__________
Location: Washington, USA
Stehako's rating:
35
6.2
6.5
2021
Director: Janicza Bravo
Her 2nd movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Movies without a Plot
Movies Inspired by Social Media
__________
Location: Tampa, FL
Stehako's rating:
567
5.2
5.4
Forces of Nature (1999)
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Her 2nd movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
It's tough watching a Ben Affleck movie, it's not tough watching a Sandra Bullock movie... so this one gave me mixed feelings. The cinematography in this was terrible, the writing was generic, the story is fine.
Added to Lists:
Worst Product Placements in Movies (K-Mart)
Stehako's rating:
263
6.5
7.1
2021
Director: Shawn Levy
His 18th movie
My 8th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Films - Shawn Levy
Top Ten Performances - Ryan Reynolds
Top Ten Performances - Taika Waititi
__________
Location: Boston, MA
Stehako's rating:
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October Pt 2: Countdown to Halloween
648
5.2
5.4
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Director: Patrick Lussier
His 3rd movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
The Strange History of 3D Movies
__________
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Stehako's rating:
517
7.6
7.4
House (1977)
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
His 2nd movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
According to Movies... Cats are Evil
The Most... Unique Films I've Ever Seen
Stehako's rating:
363
3.8
3.7
Piranha 3DD (2012)
Director: John Gulager
His 4th movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
The Evolution of Parody Movies
Stehako's rating:
552
7.2
7.6
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
His 4th movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Best Pandemic Movies
Nothing is Easier on a Train
__________
Location: South Korea
Stehako's rating:
271
7.2
7.2
Director: Robert Wise
His 34th movie
My 5th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Best Pandemic Movies
The Michael Crichton Collection
__________
Location: Texas, USA
Stehako's rating:
1055
7.9
7.9
Freaks (1932)
Director:
His 38th movie
My 2nd movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Favorite Atypical Relationships in Movies
Stehako's rating:
171
4.4
4.5
Critters 3 (1991) (1992)
Really only stuck it out for the third to see DiCaprio in his first movie. He already had the skills, which were especially impressive in this terrible movie I thought would be a guilty pleasure like the first two, but it lacked fun.
Stehako's rating:
210
5
5.5
Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
Had such potential, but almost all was wasted. It at least had some fun campiness to it.
Stehako's rating:
470
5.7
6.1
Critters (1986)
Director: Stephen Herek
His 1st movie
My 8th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
__________
Location: Kansas, USA
Stehako's rating:
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October
626
7.3
7.2
Broken Embraces (2009)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
His 18th movie
My 7th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Films - Pedro Almodóvar
Top Ten Performances - Penelope Cruz
Iconic Dresses of Cinema - Red
__________
Location: Madrid
Stehako's rating:
175
5.4
6
Director: Frank Pierson
His 2nd movie
My 2nd movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
The Evolution of Film Parodies
__________
Location: Lake Como, Italy
Stehako's rating:
67
5.4
5.7
2021
Director: Clint Eastwood
His 39th movie
My 27th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Worst Attempts at Exposition
__________
Location: Texas, USA; Mexico
Stehako's rating:
64
6.1
6.2
A Star Is Born (1976)
Director: Frank Pierson
His 2nd movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
__________
Location: Tucson, AZ; Los Angeles
Stehako's rating:
504
6.1
6.2
The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
Director: Nicholas Stoller
His 3rd movie
My 5th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Jason Segal
Top Ten Performances - Chris Pratt
__________
Location: San Francisco; Ann Arbor, MI
Stehako's rating:
216
7.4
7.5
2021
Director: Emerald Fennell
Her 1st movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Carey Mulligan hits it out of the park. One of the best performances of the last few years. The editing, cinematography, acting, production design, all made for a creepy, strange, beautiful, tense movie that thankfully pays off in the end.
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Carey Mulligan
Best Female Directors
Top First-Time-Directing
RED
__________
Location: Ohio, USA
Stehako's rating:
130
6.4
6.2
Director: Pedro Almadovar
His 2nd movie
My 6th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Films - Pedro Almadovar
__________
Location: Madrid
Stehako's rating:
30
7.8
6.6
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
His 53rd movie
My 6th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Esther Williams
Esther Williams and the Art of Water Dancing
The Million Dollar List
__________
Location: London; New York City, Los Angeles
Stehako's rating:
388
7.4
7.6
Director: Blake Edwards
His 27th movie
My 5th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Julie Andrews
__________
Location: Paris
Stehako's rating:
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September
123
7
7.5
Boy (2010)
Director: Taika Waititi
His 2nd movie
My 5th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Taika Waititi
Top Ten Films - Taika Waititi
First-Name-Only Titles
__________
Location: Waihau Bay, New Zealand
Stehako's rating:
41
7.3
7.5
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Director: Busby Berkeley
His 2nd movie
My 4th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
The Grand Musical Numbers of the 1930s
__________
Location: A New York lake resort in New York, USA
Stehako's rating:
1274
6
6.2
The Karate Kid (2010)
Director: Herald Zwart
His 6th movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
__________
Location: Beijing
Stehako's rating:
1025
7.5
8.1
Director: Lasse Hallström
His 20th movie
My 9th movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
A Dog's Perspective
Top Ten Performances - Richard Gere
Top Ten Performances - Joan Allen
Top Ten Films - Lasse Hallström
__________
Location: Rhode Island, USA
Stehako's rating:
95
7.2
7
The Wolfpack (2015)
Director: Crystal Moselle
Her 1st movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Favorite Documentary Directors and Their Best Films
Movies for Cinephiles
Documentaries about Uncommon Families
Best Documentaries of the 2010s
Stehako's rating:
94
6.7
6.8
News of the World (2020)
2021
Director: Paul Greengrass
His 13th movie
My 7th movie watched from the director
Hanks never fucking fails. I love that he is doing a western. I love that there are still good westerns to be made. I love that it's sort of a new kind of western. Greengrass proves he has range and is so disciplined here. The young actress also does a worthy job.
Added to Lists:
Best Westerns
Top Ten Films - Paul Greengrass
Tom Hanks Never Fails
The Commanding Roles of Tom Hanks
__________
Location: Texas, USA
Stehako's rating:
220
5.3
5.8
Director: Andrew Bergman
His 3rd movie
My 3rd movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Movie Cities: Las Vegas
Worst Product Placements - Harrah's Casinos
Nicolas Cage's Attempts at Normal Movies
__________
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Stehako's rating:
134
6.8
7
Director: István Szabó
His 17th movie
My 1st movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Annette Bening
Life's a Stage
__________
Location: London
Stehako's rating:
1471
5.8
6.3
17 Again (2009)
Director: Burr Steers
His 2nd movie
My 2nd movie watched from the director
Added to Lists:
Top Ten Performances - Leslie Mann
High-Concept Comedies Through the Decades
__________
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Stehako's rating:
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This list was created by Stephen H Koontz
A list of movies I have seen chronologically, for the FIRST time, in the year of 2021.
Release Date Tally
Movies released in...
2021: 15
2020: 11
2010s: 29
2000s: 12
1990s: 13
1980s: 18
1970s: 10
1960s: 10
1950s: 8
1940s: 4
1930s: 4
Movies I've seen previously (Number of times seen)
The Family Stone (2)
Mean Streets (3)
Home Alone (8)
Instant Family (2)
Wayne's World 2 (9)
The Wrestler (3)
1917 (2)
Deliverance (2)
Singin' in the Rain (4)
True Romance (2)
The Shining (4)
Remember the Titans (5)
Life is Beautiful (3)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (5)
Leap Year (2)
Moonrise Kingdom (3)
The Wedding Singer (6)
The Shawshank Redemption (5)
Barry Lyndon (2)
Twister (4)
The Proposal (3)
Lolita (2)
Can't Hardly Wait (2)
City of God (4)
Philomena (2)
Ocean's Eleven - 2001 (6)
Superbad (7)
Now and Then (2)
Mulholland Drive (2)
This is Spinal Tap (4)
Catch Me if You Can (5)
Lost & Delirious (2)
I Feel Pretty (2)
Stand By Me (3)
The Truman Show (5)
Driving Ms Daisy (2)
Phantom Thread (2)
The Patriot (4)
The Nice Guys (2)
Rudy (6)
Ready Player One (3)
Fever Pitch (5)
Good Will Hunting (7)
Argo (3)
Big Daddy (3)
Forrest Gump (63)
Pleasantville (3)
Wedding Crashers (16)
Waitress (3)
La La Land (3)
A Clockwork Orange (4)
Juno (3)
Hugo (3)
Jojo Rabbit (2)
The Fast and the Furious (2)
Groundhog Day (11)
High Society (3)
Blood Simple. (2)
The American President (6)
Spotlight (2)
Two Weeks Notice (2)
Miracle (4)
Road to Perdition (3)
Enjoy!
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