234. 12/20 – Don Jon* – A man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) meets the girl of his dreams (Scarlett Johansson) but porn gets in the way. (VOD) 7/10
235. 12/20 – Runner, Runner* – A man (Justin Timberlake) loses a bunch of money playing online poker and ends up going to Costa Rica to work for the man (Ben Affleck) who was responsible for his loss. (VOD) 6/10
236. 12/21 – Insidious Chapter 2* – More of the same but it worked. (DVD) 6/10
237. 12/21 – Out of the Furnace* – Christian Bale and Casey Affleck are brothers in a small Rust Belt town. Bale goes to jail and Affleck gets in trouble with Woody Harrelson and his inbred kinfolk. Horrible things ensue. (Cinema) 8/10
238. 12/23 – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* – The incredible dragon Smaug (voiced perfectly by Benedict Cumberbatch) was the star of this one. Gorgeous film that is best seen in HFR 3D. (Cinema) 9/10
239. 12/24 – Black Christmas – Holiday horror classic from Bob Clark. (DVD) 8/10
240. 12/26 – Prince of Darkness – A cast of John Carpenter regulars play scientists who are researching something evil. (Bluray) 8/10
241. 12/26 – Blade Runner: The Final Cut* – It’s hard to say if this is better than the theatrical version but it’s still a fantastic film. (Bluray) 8/10
242. 12/27 – In the Mouth of Madness – Sam Neill plays an insurance investigator looking into the disappearance of author Sutter Cain. Madness ensues. (Bluray) 9/10
243. 12/27 – Contest* – Feature film about bullying that plays like an afterschool special. Too wholesome for me. (DVD) 5/10
244. 12/27 – C.O.G.* – A Yale student hits the road and ends up picking apples in Oregon. (Netflix) 7/10
245. 12/28 – Sightseers* – Two Brits head off for an RV holiday and things go south quickly. (Netflix) 7/10
246. 12/28 – National Lampoon’s Dad’s Week Off* – How Henry Winkler could act in such a pile of dreck is beyond me. (Netflix) 5/10 Sorry, no trailer for this. Full movie on YouTube in ten parts, below is the first.
247. 12/30 – Not Fade Away* – Story about a band in New Jersey in the late 60’s hoping for fame and fortune (Netflix) 6/10
248. 12/30 – Losers Take All* – Funny film about a punk band in 1986 trying to make it. (Netflix) 7/10
249. 12/30 – You’re Next* – A family’s anniversary celebration is interrupted by a gang of crossbow wielding killers. (VOD) 7/10
250. 12/30 – American Hustle* – A fictionalized account of some incidents in the Abscam investigation in the late 1970s. Stellar performances by Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner and Jennifer Lawrence. (Cinema) 8/10
* = first time viewing
Films viewed by Chris Slack 