February Movies

February's List. #30 was actually movie #63 for the year.

1. The Town That Hated Sundown - Remake or Sequel? Solid start, but completely fizzles.
2. Boyhood - Long-winded tale of growing up with a very misogynistic angle.  
3. Filth - Scottish film with James McAvoy as bad cop. Heavy, but not the Bad Lieutenant.
4. Trance - Great cast flounders in another Danny Boyle debacle, but Rosario...no words.
5. Odd Thomas - Yelchin and my new bae Addison Timlin shine in Koontz adaptation. 
6. Detention - Cross between Easy A, Scream & Hot Tub Time Machine. Good fun!
7. Fighting Express Trilogy - I'm counting this as one, because I watched it in FF. Awful.
8. Under the Skin - eerily though provoking with Oscar worthy performance by Johannson. 
9. Killer Mermaid - aside from a tiny bikini and shorts, this one is as bad as it gets.
10. Gone Girl - Wonderful acting can't help poor script and silly premise. Ending is a mess. 
11. Virunga - Documentary on the preservation of Congo's Mountain Gorilla's and so much more.
12. Thale - Noregian fairytale with slow beginning and cheesy ending, but solid guts. 
13. Enemy - Simplistic tale of infidelity, made out to be much more complex than it is. 
14. Friday the 13th: Final Chapter - Re-Watched. Silly fun. Forgot how lame 80's horror is.
15. Wicked Little Things - Surprisingly strong cast carries this above par. Simple, yet effective.
16. ABC's of Death 2 - Pretty awful sans four scenes. F, S, T, X. 
17. The Man From Nowhere - Korean action masterpiece. It's what taken wished it had been. 
18. White Bird in a Blizzard - Great cast in one of the worst movies ever made. Ridiculous ending.
19. Hellraiser - Re-watched. Wonderfully creepy, but hilarious at times, especially Higgins.
20. Dazed and Confused - Re-watched. Still probably the best Linklater film. Timely and timeless.
21. Starry Eyes - Could have been a modern day Repulsion, but goes the demonic route. Meh!
22. White Zombie - Poor Bela. First Zombie film ever is true to mystique, but lacks decent story. 
23. Only God Forgives - Winding Refn and Gosling miss, but Scott Thomas is Razzie material. 
24. Crazy Eights - Cast of up and comers (if it was 1990) can't help this horrid film.
25. Omnivores - Wonderful Spanish horror, with a fatal flaw keeping it from brilliance.
26. Solaris - Tarkovsky crawls us through this simple look at human's ruining humanity. 
27. Open Grave - Silly plot that never takes hold due to horrible acting and script.
28. The Hours (parts, reason behind it) - Incredible performances with standouts Moore and Harris
29. Whiplash - I'm in a minuscule minority, but one of the worst movies I've ever seen. 
30. Annabelle - Ten times better than The Conjuring. Thrilling and even has a few legit scares.