Favorited: My Favorite Songs Of 2013 - #11 to #20

The actual countdown begins, and just in time for the New Year! There were dozens upon dozens of songs that I really loved this year. I keep a permanent "favorite songs of all time" playlist on iTunes, and I added 111 songs to that list this year, so narrowing those down to my top 20 was a challenge. As I did last year, I decided to limit the list to only one song per artist, though I will also mention other songs by the same artist that could have also made this list.

Here are numbers 11 to 20 on my list, in descending order.


20. Nathaniel Rateliff - Nothing To Show For

Never heard of Denver folk-rock singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff? Don't worry, neither had anybody at the Dr. Dog concert at the Troubadour, where he was the opener, and for me, the main attraction. I've been listening to his albums and EPs for a few years, ever since he appeared on some British music magazine's list of most underappreciated musicians in the world. Think Mumford & Sons or The Lumineers— he's opened for both of them on their tours— but more depressed, angry, and often sinister. According to an interview I once read, he went into music after losing his job at a trucking company because he suffers from narcolepsy.

Nathaniel Rateliff performs "Nothing To Show For" at the Troubadour

19. Little Boots - Satellite

It's true, Little Boots (Victoria Hesketh) hasn't found nearly the same success as other female electropop acts that emerged at about the same time like Lady Gaga, Robyn, Ellie Goulding, and La Roux, and yes, her new album (produced by DFA's Tim Goldsworthy with assists from Junior Senior's Jeppe Laursen and Hercules and Love Affair's Andy Butler) doesn't contain nearly as many dance party hits as her debut 2009 album. However, this closing song on the album is a soaring standout.

18. Alice Smith - Cabaret

I saw Alice Smith open spectacularly for Santigold and The Ting Tings back in 2008. At the time, she only had one album that was already two years old, so her set was packed with new songs from a soon-to-be-recorded follow-up. But then she got married (to Clarence Greenwood, a.k.a. Citizen Cope), became a mother, and vanished from the music scene for five years. That second album finally arrived this year, and this song opens it with a bang. She had a show at the Troubadour this summer, but unfortunately (or fortunately?) I already had a ticket that same night to see the singer of my absolute favorite song of 2013.

By the way, here's her stunning 2008 performance of "Loyalty," which was finally released on the new album this year.

Alice Smith performs "Loyalty" in 2008

17. Psychic Friend - Once A Servant

Every few years, it seems like Will Schwartz of Imperial Teen pops up with another side project. Last time it was his dance-pop act Hey Willpower!, whom I saw open for Scissor Sisters and Junior Senior. Now it's his electropop outfit Psychic Friend. Their debut album seems to have come and gone without a trace, even with a heavy assist from fan Sarah Silverman (who opened for the band at their record release show back in February), but it produced two of my favorite songs of the year.

I also love the song "Silent Show."

16. Solange - Losing You

That's right, Solange Knowles— a.k.a. Beyoncé's little sister— who's quietly becoming a fantastic singer-songwriter in her own right with a distinct alternative pop streak (just seek out her fabulous cover of Dirty Projectors' "Stillness Is The Move"). I still can't believe she played FYF Fest this year.

15. Washed Out - All I Know

Washed Out are probably best known for their dreamy/druggy song "Feel It All Around," a.k.a. the theme song to Portlandia. When they launched into their set at FYF Fest, though, they could almost be confused for U2, a band that would never be labelled lo-fi dream pop. I never thought Washed Out could ever release a song that I could put on my gym workout mix, but here it is.

14. TV On The Radio - Mercy

I was worried last year when TV On The Radio said that they were going on hiatus and that they would probably never release another album. Instead, they were just going to release the occasional single or EP whenever they felt like it. Then, this past summer, they released this song out of the blue, their most propulsive song in years. And now they say they're going to record a new album, after all. Thank god.

13. Lorde - Royals

One of my biggest music regrets of 2013 is missing out on seeing adorable 17-year-old Kiwi singer-songwriter Lorde when she performed in LA at the Fonda Theatre a couple of months ago, because at the rate her career's taking off, she'll probably never perform in a venue that small again. My only hope right now is that she'll perform at Coachella in April... which IS looking pretty likely. Since this is probably the biggest song in the world right now, I probably don't have to provide much more of an introduction.

12. Grouplove - Ways To Go

After falling in love with Grouplove a couple of years ago, I was kind of baffled by the backlash from critics who complained that they were an insincere and crass knockoff of The Lumineers and Of Monsters And Men, with their shouts, harmonizing, and handclaps. When they released this song as the first single off their new album, it was instantly clear that they're trying something very different.

11. Primal Scream - It's Alright, It's Okay

Scottish alt-rock legends Primal Scream finally return to the glory and classic sounds of their album Screamadelica. This song sounds like it could've been a lost track from that album, 22 long years ago. Supposedly they're playing Coachella, and I can't wait to see them again.

Primal Scream perform "It's Alright, It's Okay"

Their new album More Light is so good that it produced another serious contender for this list, the perfect song to close out the year: "2013."

Primal Scream perform "2013"

Stay tuned for the top ten list, coming tomorrow!

Favorited: My Favorite Songs Of 2013 - The Runners-Up

So I've totally been neglecting this blog. I joked when I first started it over a year ago that I'd probably end up just using it to post my annual top ten lists, and it's starting to look like that wasn't that far from the truth. That means it's time to count down my favorite songs of 2013!

Last year I had a list of 25 favorite songs. This year I've decided to cut it down to a top 20. Like last year, though, I have a long list of songs that I wish I could have included on the list. Here are my runners-up for my favorite songs of the year, arranged alphabetically by the artist's name, accompanied by videos so that you can hear what they sound like!


Arcade Fire - Reflektor

Arcade Fire - Normal Person

Deap Vally - End Of The World

Deap Vally - Baby I Call Hell

Deerhunter - Leather Jacket II

Del & Xavier - Say Ooh Damn

Ghost B.C. - Year Zero

Haim - The Wire

M.I.A. - Come Walk With Me

Okkervil River - Stay Young

Palma Violets - Best Of Friends

Pixies - Indie Cindy

Vampire Weekend - Diane Young

Vampire Weekend - Worship You

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Despair

Bonus! My favorite song from a movie in 2013:

Idina Menzel - Let It Go (from Frozen)

Stay tuned for the top 20 list, which I'll start posting tomorrow!

Concert Report: Bucket List Concerts, an update

My first full-length blog post was about Bucket List Concerts, those once-in-a-lifetime type concerts by musicians I've dreamt of seeing before I die. One of the bands on my bucket list was The Rolling Stones, and since then, the Stones actually did their whole 50 And Counting Tour, with three shows in the Los Angeles area... and I didn't go! Simple reason: the cheapest decent tickets available were in the area of $350. And so I skipped seeing a band I've been wanting to see for 20 years.

I felt bad about it, but not for long, because just a few days after I skipped the chance to get tickets for the Stones, the Americanarama Festival Of Music was announced, and not only did it feature two of my absolute favorite bands, Wilco and My Morning Jacket, its headliner was another of my bucket list musicians: Bob Dylan. And for the price of a single Stones ticket, I managed to buy FOUR excellent seats at the Americanarama date at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, about 60 miles south of here.

The show was last Saturday, and it was an utterly magical experience, but not because of Dylan. In fact, if the show had ended after the remarkable triple-whammy of Ryan Bingham's opening set, My Morning Jacket's 70-minute set, and Wilco's 75-minutes set, I would've gone home satisfied and felt that I'd gotten my money's worth. And it would've been one of the most memorable concert experiences of my life.

Let's just start with the very surprising surprise guest that came to belt out a couple of classic numbers with Wilco: Nancy Sinatra.

I don't think anybody in the audience saw THAT coming.

Or, how about Jackson Browne (who was a surprise guest during My Morning Jacket's set) emerging to sing the wonderful "California Stars" with Wilco?

And finally, something that I've been waiting years to see: Wilco and My Morning Jacket teaming up for a song, Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl."

For me, after all this, Bob Dylan's headlining set was just a bonus. As anyone who's listened to his last few albums or saw his incoherent appearance on the Grammys a couple of years ago knows, his voice sounds pretty awful these days, and for 90 minutes, he plowed through nearly unrecognizable versions of a handful of classics, along with several lesser-known songs. A lot of these songs were rendered unrecognizable because of Dylan's weird cadence and intonation of the lyrics, which sound nothing like the album versions. Weirder still, the man famous for his guitar-playing never once picked up a guitar during the entire night, limiting his instrument-playing to the harmonica or keyboard. Perhaps the weirdest thing, though, was that he was shockingly intelligible. I actually understand most of the words he was singing, even if he was singing them strangely.

Still, there was something magical about being there for probably my last chance to see Bob Dylan perform. He's 72, and his body and voice are frail and could give out completely at any moment, and here he is going on a tour across the continent, playing to 10,000 people a night. And then, near the end of his set, came the pay-off, when he was joined by the singers from all the opening bands and traded off singing verses of The Band's classic "The Weight."

As I said, magical.

I should probably also mention that I could've written a blog entry like this earlier in the year, because my trip to Coachella was chock full of bucket list moments, involving three band reunions I never thought I'd see.

The Stone Roses:

Blur:

The Postal Service:

And that's not even counting the reunions of The Three O'Clock and Violent Femmes, the reappearance of Sixto Rodriguez, or seeing Johnny Marr perform three Smiths songs:

Rodriguez performing "Sugar Man" at Coachella

So even though I missed The Rolling Stones this year, and I may never get another chance to see them, I'm doing well on my ongoing adventure of seeing bands whom I'd never thought I'd get to see, and it's only August. Who knows what the rest of the year will bring?


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I'm still here

No, I haven't given up on this blog, though it's been a while. I've just been busy writing a new screenplay while also looking for a new job. I'll be posting more stuff once things settle down.

Favorited: My 12 Favorite Movies Of 2012

After all the build-up, here it is, the list of my twelve favorite movies of 2012. Enjoy!

12. LINCOLN
I wasn't a fan of Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner's previous collaboration MUNICH, so this "intimate epic" was probably the most pleasant surprise of the year. I went in fearing a slog of a history lesson; instead I got a fleet, funny, and entertaining 19th Century version of "The West Wing" anchored by the most likable and immersive performance of Daniel Day-Lewis' career. Sure, we all admire Lincoln, but this movie actually makes you love the man. I'd love to see a one-man show of Daniel Day-Lewis telling stories as Lincoln for three hours, especially if those stories are written by Kushner.

11. MOONRISE KINGDOM
Wes Anderson transports us to a colorful and whimsical world that may never have existed, but where I'd love to live. Nothing feels real. Not the overly clever dialogue, the overly production designed sets, the brightly colored costumes, the weird story turns, or the bizarre characters. But the whimsy somehow doesn't overwhelm the sweet and hilarious love story between the boy and girl at the center of the movie, played by quirky and lovable newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward. I knew this would be one of my favorite movies of the year the moment I saw the shot with the kid on the trampoline in the background.

10. THE MASTER
Paul Thomas Anderson's THERE WILL BE BLOOD was my favorite movie of the decade, so there probably wasn't going to be any chance that his unsettling portrait of a seriously disturbed WWII vet falling under the spell of a cult that looks suspiciously like Scientology and its enigmatic, charismatic leader was going to be able to top it… and it doesn't. Even though I'm still not sure what the point of the movie is, even after seeing it twice projected in 70mm, I still find it an enthralling, hypnotic experience. I can't even decide which of its three key performances— Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, or Amy Adams— is the most impressive. And the "processing scene" between Phoenix and Hoffman is the single best movie scene I saw all year.

9. WRECK-IT RALPH
I know, it feels like sacrilege to rank a geeky animated kids movie about videogame characters above the latest epics by Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Spielberg, but former "Simpsons" director Rich Moore's sugar rush of a movie is the first Disney computer-animated feature that can rank with the best of Pixar in terms of heart, cleverness, and maturity. John C. Reilly is great as the videogame bad guy who spreads chaos in his quest to become a hero, Jane Lynch's character gave me the biggest laugh in the movie (it's when her character's tragic backstory is revealed), Alan Tudyk does a delightfully spot-on Ed Wynn and provides one of the best plot twists of the year, and Sarah Silverman is both adorable and heart-breaking. Really, did you ever think she could ever make you cry? (Don't answer that if you've seen TAKE THIS WALTZ.)

8. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
With FLIRTING WITH DISASTER and this wonderful and acerbic adaptation of Matthew Quick's novel, David O. Russell seems to be the only filmmaker who can pull off a successful screwball comedy, anymore. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are a joy to watch as they poke and prod at one another with barbed dialogue, and Robert DeNiro does his best work in over 20 years. The movie is just as goofy as it sounds: two people suffering from bipolar disorder and depression fall in love and help one another through the magic of football and ballroom dancing… But it somehow makes us care about its damaged characters and concludes with just about the most perfect climactic scene of the year.

7. DJANGO UNCHAINED
It's Quentin Tarantino. Of course it's in bad taste. Of course it's overlong and overblown and makes a mockery of a deadly serious subject. And of course it's a blood-soaked blast of fantastic fun. Jamie Foxx is a 19th Century Siegfried we can all root for, while Kerry Washington is his gorgeous Broomhilda, a woman worth fighting a dragon to rescue. And beneath it all, I'm pretty sure Tarantino's making a serious point about slavery's terrible legacy, because it sure did make me cringe in horror. Other times, the movie put a big smile on my face with its smarts and unexpected intellectualism, particularly in the scene where Christoph Waltz (never more charming and likable) and Leonardo DiCaprio (never so slimy and despicable) banter about the author Alexandre Dumas.

6. HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
I have to be honest, I've seen a lot of films and documentaries about AIDS, but it wasn't until I saw David France's profoundly sad, stirring, and ultimately uplifting documentary that I actually understood what a "protease inhibitor" is. That is just one of many things I learned from this movie, along with the fact that playwright Larry Kramer is a serious badass. The documentary chronicles the formation, rise, and eventual fracturing of the activist group ACT UP, whose members had the remarkable foresight to film and record everything they did, allowing the story to be told almost entirely through footage from the height of the AIDS crisis intercut with candid, powerful interviews from both past and present. As its title suggests, and like the documentary WE WERE HERE, it's as much about life and survival as it is about death. You can watch it now on Netflix Watch Instantly here:
Netflix Watch Instantly: How To Survive A Plague

5. AMOUR
Films such as FUNNY GAMES, CACHE, THE PIANO TEACHER, and TIME OF THE WOLF have established Michael Haneke as perhaps the coldest, cruelest, most misanthropic filmmaker working today, but with AMOUR he delivers one of the warmest, most humane and real depictions of a loving relationship in years. It's also pitiless and very hard to watch, made even more difficult by the beautiful performances by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple living comfortably in their apartment, but when Anne suffers a stroke that slowly destroys her body but leaves her mind intact, Georges' reaction becomes an incredible display of love and devotion. It's equal parts real horror and touching romance.

4. HOLY MOTORS
Leos Carax's fantasia in which Denis Lavant rides around in a limo all day to "appointments" where he has to transform himself into eleven different characters is a giddy and surreal celebration of film and especially of the art of acting. You'll have to watch the movie to see how Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue figure into it. And talking limousines. Don't even get me started on the delightful musical interlude where Lavant is joined by an accordion band playing R.L. Burnside’s “Let My Baby Ride." It's my second favorite single movie scene of the year, and you can watch it right here:

3. SKYFALL
Sam Mendes directing a James Bond movie sounded like an iffy idea, especially after the mediocrity of QUANTUM OF SOLACE, the previous Bond movie also directed by an acclaimed dramatic film director (Marc Forster). Any doubts vanished within minutes. Right from the opening sequence, one of the greatest and most relentless action sequences I've ever seen, you know you're seeing a Bond movie for the modern age. Which makes the ending even more ironic: after all the modern twists, the movie has the balls to reboot the franchise by bringing it all the way back to the beginning, resetting all the pieces to where they were during the Connery era. Cinematography god Roger Deakins raises digital cinematography to a whole new level. Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, and Naomie Harris are all welcome additions to the series. Javier Bardem doesn't appear until midway into the movie, but with a single scene, he establishes himself as one of the all-time great Bond villains. And here was the Bond movie that finally showed us who the true Bond Girl was all along: Judi Dench.

2. ZERO DARK THIRTY
Despite Kathryn Bigelow's bravura direction and Mark Boal's information-packed script, this movie wouldn't even be on this list if it weren't for Jessica Chastain's stunning performance at its heart. As "Maya," the young CIA analyst who doggedly pursued an obscure lead that eventually led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, she is relentless, fierce, and even frightening. We share in her delight, disappointment, frustration, and grief as she deals with breakthroughs, tragedies, triumphs, and setbacks. The debate about whether the movie endorses torture is fruitless; depiction of torture (which one would have to be a fool to claim didn't happen) isn't the same as endorsing it. Since we all know how the story ends, the movie could have been nothing more than a cold, clinical reenactment, but thanks to Chastain, the movie builds to a cathartic, emotional release.

1. CLOUD ATLAS
The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer's glorious adaptation of David Mitchell's sprawling "unfilmable" novel is an ambitious, messy, gorgeous, pretentious, confusing, thrilling, corny, misguided, mind-boggling, passionate three-hour beast… and I loved every last second of it. The movie leaps back and forth through 500 years of human history, intercutting furiously between six interconnected stories that could easily be great standalone movies of their own. Each member of the impressive cast (Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Ben Whishaw, Doona Bae, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Jim Strugess, Keith David, James D'Arcy, and my favorite in the movie, Jim Broadbent) is called upon to play multiple characters, often in make-up, with varying degrees of effectiveness, to change their age, race, or even gender. Ignore the cries of "yellow-face"; this movie has red-face, white-face, brown-face… it all serves the message of the film that everything is connected, and that life on Earth is forever a battle between the powerful and the powerless. I had to see this movie twice in IMAX, and I look forward to seeing it many more times on Blu-ray. There's no question that it's my favorite movie of the year. Here's the 6-minute trailer:

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Favorited: My Favorite Movies of 2012 - Too Much Good Stuff

This is not my top ten list. Not yet. This post is to highlight the fact that 2012 was such an unusually good year for movies (like 2007 and 1999) that there were a lot of movies I adored that simply didn't make my top ten list. In fact, my top ten list will actually be a top twelve list.

It was such a good year that there were roughly twenty movies I loved that, in any other year, could have easily landed in my top ten. In no particular order, they are:

LOOPER
I just watched this movie again a couple of nights ago, and Rian Johnson's script and fantastic direction really hold up. There's a reason a lot of people are hoping he directs the next STAR WARS movie, though that would be a longshot. Some were put off by the sudden shift into the paranormal in the third act, but the remarkable and terrifying performance by 5-year-old newcomer Pierce Gagnon really makes it all worth it.

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
As of October of 2012, I was pretty sure Benh Zeitlin's feature film debut would land in my top five, but as often happens, a whole flurry of great movies came out at the end of the year, and this impressive low-budget gem, anchored by yet another incredible child performance, this one by 7-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, got pushed out of my top ten/twelve entirely. The movie also features a triumphant score and gorgeous low-budget visual effects work that earned it a feature article in the effects trade magazine Cinefex. If you haven't seen "Glory At Sea," the 25-minute sort-of prequel to this film, you can watch it for free on YouTube:

THE AVENGERS and THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
Joss Whedon restored a lot of faith in geek-centric films this year, with the ultimate big-budget superhero blockbuster and with a modest self-referential horror-comedy that is basically every horror movie ever made crammed into one movie. I can watch both of these movies on repeat, and yet they, too, failed to make my top ten.

PARANORMAN
The most soulful and impressively-animated film I saw last year, hiding a powerful message of tolerance amid the very funny gross-out gags.

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, THE IMPOSTER, THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI, AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY
Five very different but vastly entertaining documentaries. The first two can be enjoyed as twisty, suspenseful mysteries, while the other three are fascinating character pieces that are available on Netflix Watch Instantly. Go watch them!

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
I'm the age of the characters in Stephen Chbosky's touching adaptation of his own novel, a high school drama set in the early 1990s, so of course it pushes all the right buttons for me. It helps that the script is wonderful and that Ezra Miller gives a warm and funny career-making supporting performance that's a 180-degree turn from his psychotically-scary role in 2011's WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN.

FLIGHT
The first half hour is an intense disaster movie. The next two hours are a grueling addiction drama. What looks like a typical Hollywood blockbuster, Robert Zemickis' first live-action movie in twelve years, turns out to be an intimate and surprisingly cynical character study with a incisive performance by Denzel Washington.

ARGO
Ben Affleck is quickly becoming the Sidney Lumet of this generation. Who knew?

DETENTION
This whacked-out demented horror-comedy from Joseph Kahn (director of the much-hated hyperactive motorcycle bomb TORQUE, which looks downright sedate compared to this movie) is a laugh-out-loud audacious blast. Just rent it and be prepared to have a good time.

LIFE OF PI
You can debate the merits of the ending all you want, but it doesn't erase the fact that Ang Lee is a master who manages to raise the bar on CGI and 3D.

COMPLIANCE
Craig Zobel delivers perhaps the most unsettling movie of the year, one that provokes angry debate wherever it goes, mostly about whether the whole thing is believable. The fact is, this story happened... dozens of times.

BERNIE
Richard Linklater's mix of docudrama and reenactment of murder in a small East Texas town is a dark delight, and Jack Black has never had a better role.

THIS IS NOT A FILM
Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been banned by the Iranian government from making films, but there's no way that's going to stop him from pursuing his passion. In this documentary, he creates a makeshift set inside his house and acts out scenes from what was to be his next film. The subsequent footage was then smuggled out of the country on a USB thumbdrive, and what we get is a stirring and inspiring portrait of his creative drive.

FOOTNOTE
Israel's foreign language Oscar nominee last year is an amusingly bitter comedy about the rivalry between Talmudic scholars who happen to be father and son.

MAGIC MIKE
Steven Soderbergh's male stripper movie turns out to be so much more than that, a dark character-driven comedy/romance about people on the economic fringes. This was the year of Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey, and this movie is a big reason why. McConaughey gives a shockingly good performance that coupled with his performances in BERNIE, KILLER JOE, and THE PAPERBOY makes me want to see any movie he's in now.

GOON
I knew I'd forget at least one great movie to put on this list, and that movie is the Canadian hockey movie GOON. Seann William Scott is fantastic as a likable, friendly lunkhead who's hired to be a hockey enforcer. It's truly the best hockey movie since SLAP SHOT, and it's also available on Netflix Watch Instantly, so you really have no excuse.

In addition to these movies I loved, there were dozens of other movies I really liked that deserve mentioning. They are:

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
RUST AND BONE
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
PAUL WILLIAMS: STILL ALIVE
THE RAID: REDEMPTION
THE INNKEEPERS
KILLER JOE
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY
THE SESSIONS
THE IMPOSSIBLE
JOHN CARTER
JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME
THE INTOUCHABLES
THE DEEP BLUE SEA
TAKE THIS WALTZ
END OF WATCH
KILLING THEM SOFTLY
PITCH PERFECT
THE HUNGER GAMES
21 JUMP STREET
CHRONICLE
DARK HORSE
THE GREY
KLOWN
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
BRAVE
KILL LIST
TED
OSLO, AUGUST 31st
FRANKENWEENIE
HAYWIRE
THE SOUND OF MY VOICE
ARBITRAGE


Finally, here are a few notable movies that I didn't get a chance to see but will eventually: PROMISED LAND, MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, SMASHED, WEST OF MEMPHIS, THE TURIN HORSE, THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, NOT FADE AWAY, HELLO I MUST BE GOING, THE GATEKEEPERS

Now you should understand why a movie like LES MISERABLES won't get anywhere close to being in my top fifty of the 2012. The fact is that I like all of these movies a lot more.

Stay tuned for my top twelve of 2012, coming soon!


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