Catalog of 2010

Having the benefit of picking and choosing what movies I pay to see, most of these were at least somewhat critically vetted. Thus, there are few "turkeys" on this list. All were worthwhile, in some way or other. 

Films I saw in theaters during 2010
(dates compiled from ticket stubs, but a few seem to be missing)

• 127 Hours    11/13
• Animal Kingdom
• The Book of Eli 1/18 
• Cyrus 7/4
• Daybreakers 1/18
• Dogtooth 9/6
• Easy A 11/07
• An Education (2009) 2/03
• Enter The Void 10/24
• Exit Through the Gift Shop 5/17
• Faster 11/27
• The Fighter 12/18
• Four Lions 11/13
• Get Him To The Greek
• Harry Potter: & the Deathly Hallows, pt.1 11/19
• How To Train Your Dragon 3D 4/25
• Inception 7/18
• Iron Man 2 5/8
• Jackass 3D 10/17
• Kick-Ass
• The Kids Are Alright 7/24
• The King's Speech 12/24
• Let Me In
• MacGruber 5/29
• Mesrine 1 & 2 (Killer Instinct/Public Enemy #1) (actually 2008 release)
• Monsters 11/06
• Never Let Me Go 10/17
• The Other Guys  8/14
• The Princess and the Frog    (2009 release)
• Rare Exports 12/24
• Redline 12/8 (Anime directed by Takeshi Koike, not being helped by sharing a title with an earlier live action US film.)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
• Shutter Island 2/24 (?)
• The Social Network
• Somewhere 12/31
• Splice 6/13
• Summer Wars 12/27
• Tangled 3D 12/13
• The Town 11/13
• Toy Story 3
• Tron: Legacy
• True Grit 12/23
• Winter's Bone 7/4

also… The Human Centipede via Comcast ON DEMAND

and also… (in November)

• The American
• Black Swan
• Biutiful
• Carlos
• Casino Jack 
• Get Low
• Mutants

Repertory screenings

Midnites For Maniacs @ The Castro: 7/31

Nighthawks / Bloodsport / Big Trouble in Little China

Destroy All Movies! @ the Roxie: 11/19
Surf 2 / Times Square

Mifune x Kurosawa : A Beautiful Man @ VIZ

Red Beard 12/26 

Stray Dog 12/28 

High and Low 12/28

Rifftrax/Cinematic Titanic

CT: Danger On Tiki Island   (live @ The Castro)

RT: House on Haunted Hill  (a Fathom event)

RT: Reefer Madness            (a Fathom event)

(Special note: I had a ticket for CT's War Of The Insects in October but was unable to attend due to my house being burglarized that day.)

(Also, I watched a lot of Rifftrax enhanced films this year at home like Clash of the Titans, The Last Airbender, Twilight: Eclipse, and Santa Claus & The Ice Cream Bunny. But they deserve an eventual post of their own. More later…)

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Still to see

Rabbit Hole, Another Year, Ghost Writer, The Secret In Their Eyes, Buried, The Last Exorcism, Jack Goes Boating, Hot Tub Time Machine,  A Serbian Film, Mother, Un Prophete, I Am Love, Restrepo, Triangle (?), The Square (?) 

Harry's best of list over at AICN features a number of titles yet to be released that I hope to see this year.

& 
Capone's exhaustive list, including worsts of the year.

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Also worth mentioning,

Live comedy shows I attended

Doug Benson

Jen Kirkman

Marc Maron

Good times.

See also my earlier home video post. I may edit to add some comments about the above titles, but frankly, the future is here and I've got other shit to do.