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First time viewings in Bold. Will list TV series only on the dates I finish a season (with the exception of anthologies).

I use the Film Comment Ratings system:
***** Excellent
**** Very Good
*** Good
** Of Interest
* Mediocre
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My Top 3 Picks of the Month will be IN COLOR. These picks will be for first time viewings only.

January
01/01-The Ice Harvest (Ramis, 2005) **
05/01 24: Season Five (Surnow/Cochran, 2005-2006) ****
06/01-The Good Shepherd (DeNiro, 2006) ***
06/01-Snakes on a Plane (Ellis, 2006) @
07/01-Masters of Horror: "Right to Die" (Schmidt, 2006) **
08/01-Jackass Number Two (Tremaine, 2006) ***
09/01-Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006) *
10/01-The Queen (Frears, 2006) **
18/01-Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006) **
20/01-Masters of Horror: "The Black Cat" (Gordon, 2007) @
23/01-Zombie (Fulci, 1979) **
24/01-The In Crowd (Lambert, 2000) @
24/01-Veronica Mars: The Complete First Season (Thomas, 2004-2005) *****
24/01-Nip/Tuck: The Complete Third Season (Murphy, 2005) ***
26/01-Nightmares & Dreamscapes: "Battleground" (Henson, 2006) ****
26/01-Smokin' Aces (Carnahan, 2007) **
27/01-Dreamgirls (Condon, 2006) *
28/01-Blood Diamond (Zwick, 2006) **
30/01-The Boost (Becker, 1988) ***
30/01-The Marine (Bonito, 2006) **
31/01-Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (Little, 1988) ****
31/01-Mallrats (Smith, 1995) **

February
01/02-Idle Hands (Flender, 1999) ***
01/02-Boston Legal: The Complete First Season (Kelley, 2004-2005) ****
02/02-A Miami Tail (James, 2003) *
02/02-Alpha Dog (Cassavetes, 2007) **
03/02-Masters of Horror: "Dream Cruise" (Tsuruta, 2007) @
04/02-Veronica Mars: The Complete Second Season (Thomas, 2005-2006) ****
05/02-Body Heat (Kasdan, 1981) ****
05/02-Blown Away (Spencer, 1992) *
06/02-The Dentist 2 (Yuzna, 1998) *
06/02-Weeds: Season One (Kohan, 2005) **
06/02-Hollywoodland (Coulter, 2006) ***
07/02-Enter the Dragon (Clouse, 1973) **
10/02-Hannibal Rising (Webber, 2007) **
10/02-Masters of Horror: "Valerie on the Stairs" (Garris, 2007) @
11/02-Babel (Iñárritu, 2006) @
11/02-The Benchwarmers (Dugan, 2006) @
11/02-Welcome to Pornoland (Brough/Salman, 2006) **
12/02-The Pink Panther (Levy, 2006) @
13/02-Nightmares & Dreamscapes:"The End of the Whole Mess" (Salomon, 2006) **
13/02-Scorsese on Scorsese (Schickel, 2004) **
14/02-Human Trafficking (Duguay, 2005) ***
16/02-Ghost Rider (Johnson, 2007) @
18/02-Looking For Comedy in the Muslim World (Brooks, 2006) @
20/02-Scary Movie 4 (Zucker, 2006) @
21/02-Nightmares & Dreamscapes: "The Fifth Quarter" (Bowman, 2006) @
22/02-Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005) *
22/02-Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (Clattenburg, 2006) @
23/02-I Am a Sex Addict (Zahedi, 2005) **
26/02-The Number 23 (Schumacher, 2007) **
26/02-Breach (Ray, 2007) **
27/02-Nightmares & Dreamscapes:"You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" (Robe, 2006) ***
27/02-Road House (Herrington, 1989) **
28/02-Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (Gill, 2001) ****
28/02-Basic Instinct 2 (Caton-Jones, 2006) @

March
01/03-The Burning (Maylam, 1981) **
01/03-RV (Sonnenfeld, 2006) @
02/03-Sleeper Cell: American Terror (Reiff/Voris, 2006) **
02/03-Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)*****
03/03-High Plains Drifter (Eastwood, 1973) ****
05/03-Factory Girl (Hickenlooper, 2007)**
06/03-That Summer (Cokeliss, 1979) *
07/03-Black Snake Moan (Brewer, 2007) @
09/03-Fast Food Nation (Linklater, 2006) ****
11/03-Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Parello, 1998) **
12/03-On the Town (Donen/Kelly, 1949) **
13/03-Highway to Hell (de Jong, 1992) **
14/03-Harsh Times (Ayer, 2006) **
15/03-Cat People (Tourneur, 1942) **
16/03-The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953) ***
16/03-Blackboard Jungle (Brooks, 1955) *****
16/03-Dead Silence (Wan, 2007) @
17/03-Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks, 1953) **
17/03-Flags of Our Fathers (Eastwood, 2006) ****
17/03-Letters From Iwo Jima (Eastwood, 2006) **
17/03-Old Joy (Reichardt, 2006) ****
18/03-The Life of Emile Zola (Dieterle, 1937) ****
18/03-Nightmares & Dreamscapes: "Umney's Last Case" (Bowman, 2006) *
19/03-Mommie Dearest (Perry, 1981) ***
19/03-Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970) **
20/03-Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959) **
20/03-Just Friends (Kumble, 2006) **
21/03-Abducted (Collins, 1986) *
23/03-Shooter (Fuqua, 2007) **
24/03-Idiocracy (Judge, 2006) ***
27/03-Deadly Weapons (Wishman, 1974) **
28/03-L'Enfant (Dardenne, 2005) ****
30/03-The Shield: Season 5 (Ryan, 2006) ****
30/03-Criminal Minds: The Complete First Season (Davis, 2005-2006) ***

April
02/04-Cold Around the Heart (Ridley, 1996) **
03/04-My Bloody Valentine (Mihalka, 1981) **
05/04-Sublime (Krantz, 2007) ***
06/04-Grindhouse (Rodriguez/Tarantino, 2007) *****
08/04-Grindhouse (Rodriguez/Tarantino, 2007) *****
08/04-300 (Snyder, 2007) @
11/04-A Scanner Darkly (Linklater, 2006) ***
13/04-Vice Squad (Sherman, 1982) ***
14/04-Lost (Lemke, 2004) ***
14/04-The Hoax (Hallström, 2007) ***
20/04-Strangers with Candy (Dinello, 2005) **
21/04-Hot Fuzz (Wright, 2007) *
22/04-Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997) *****
22/04-Vacancy (Antal, 2007) ****
23/04-The Last King of Scotland (Macdonald, 2006) **
23/04-The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Loach, 2006) *
27/04-The Condemned (Wiper, 2007) @
27/04-Fracture (Hoblit, 2007) @
29/04-Next (Tamahori, 2007) @

May
01/05-Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (Bregman, 2005) *
01/05-Disturbia (Caruso, 2007) *
03/05-True Confessions (Grosbard, 1981) ****
04/05-Spider-Man 3 (Raimi, 2007) ****
05/05-Lucky You (Hanson, 2007) *
15/05-Equinox (Woods, 1970) **
15/05-28 Weeks Later (Fresnadillo, 2007) **
18/05-See No Evil (Dark, 2006) @
24/05-Invasion U.S.A. (Zito, 1985) **
27/05-INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch, 2007) *****
30/05-Going to Pieces (McQueen/Rockoff, 2006) ****

June
04/06-Dolls (Gordon, 1987) *
08/06-Hostel: Part II (Roth, 2007) ***
08/06-Ocean's 13 (Soderbergh, 2007) *
09/06-2:37 (Thalluri, 2006) **
10/06-The Sopranos: The Complete Sixth Season (Chase, 2006-2007) ****
12/06-52 Pick-Up (Frankenheimer, 1986) *****
14/06-The Majorettes (Hinzman, 1988) **
18/06-Sicko (Moore, 2007) *
19/06-Invincible (Core, 2006) @