Choice things for January '05 are some Top 10 lists!
Top 10 of 2004:
Control Room
the Incredibles
Shaun of the Dead
Mean Creek
Greendale
Uncovered: the War in Iraq
Kill Bill 2/Collateral
Eternal Sunshine
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... Spring
Ramones: End of a Century/Some Kind of Monster
Honorable mentions:
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Five Obstructions
Day After Tomorrow
Spiderman 2
Supersize Me
Festival Express
the Corporation
Bush's Brain
Mean Girls
Need to see:
Dodgeball
Ray
Sideways
Closer
Vera Drake
Kinsey
Monster Road
the Woodsman
Enduring Love
Life Aquatic
In the Realms of the Unreal
Worst of:
Suspect Zero
Imagining Argentina
Alien Vs. Predator (also: BIGGEST LETDOWN!)
Sky Captain and the World of Hella Boring
Paycheck
Spartan
Van Helsing
I don't need to see to know it SUCKS:
Alexander, Troy, et al (I say: Make it gay or go away!)
Finding Neverland (precious crap, perhaps this year's Amelie)
all things Ben Affleck
Saw
Top 11 Mass 2005 excitement:
Joss Whedon's Serenity (I would probably need nothing else in 2005)
Jarhead
Tim Burton's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
the return of Family Guy
Die Hard 4
Evergreen
Bee Season
5x2
"Untitled Dave Chappelle/Michel Gondry Project" ... ?!?!?
Sex and the City/Angel feature films (a girl can dream)
unabashed gay male sex in Brokeback Mountain
Top 6 tv shows for 2004:
Veronica Mars
West Wing in its post-Sorkin, Serkian fervor
Kingdom Hospital
Project Runway
America's Next Top Model
the Dave Chappelle Show