Living Off Crazy

Movies (theater)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets dir. Jon Turteltaub
Charlie Wilson's War dir. Mike Nichols

Movies (DVD)
What Have I Done To Deserve This? dir. Pedro Almodovar
A.B.C. Africa dir. Abbas Kiarostami

Living in Hope

Movies (DVD)
Twist of Faith dir. Kirby Dick

Movies (theater)
Lust, Caution dir. Ang Lee

Books
How to Play in Traffic by Penn & Teller
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote

Frantic and Ashamed

Movies (DVD)
Stray Dog dir. Akira Kurosawa
Day Watch dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist dir. Steve Oedekerk
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider dir. Simon West

Movies (theater)
No Country for Old Men dir. Ethan & Joel Coen

Books
Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss

Salvation or Damnation?

Movies (DVD)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance dir. Park Chan-wook
The Wind That Shakes the Barley dir. Ken Loach
Hairspray dir. Adam Shankman
Darna Zaroori Hai dir. Ram Gopal Verma et al
TMNT dir. Kevin Munroe

Movies (theater)
The Golden Compass dir. Chris Weitz

Books
The Book of Vice by Peter Sagal

The Bone of Truth

Movies (DVD)
Legend dir. Ridley Scott
The Bad Sleep Well dir. Akira Kurosawa

Books
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

The Struggles of Life

Movies (DVD)

I'm All Right Jack dir. John Boulting
Live Free or Die Hard dir. Len Wiseman

Movies (theater)

Om Shanti Om dir. Farah Khan

The Flutter of the Heart

Movies (DVD)
Ek Hasina Thi dir. Sriram Raghavan
Ninotchka dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Books
Interworld by Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves

Predictable Chaos

Movies (DVD)
M. Hulot's Holiday dir. Jacques Tati
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek dir. Preston Sturges
Sicko dir. Michael Moore
Black Sheep dir. Jonathan King

Books
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

Having Something

Movies (DVD)

Heaven Can Wait dir. Ernst Lubitsch
A Life Less Ordinary dir. Danny Boyle
Mars Attacks! dir. Tim Burton
The Valet dir. Francis Veber

Movies (theater)
Bee Movie dir. Simon J. Smith & Steve Hickner

Books

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler

Seven Deadly Sins

Movies (DVD)

Rudy dir. David Anspaugh

Dirty Sanchez: The Movie dir. Jim Hickey
Planet Terror dir. Robert Rodriguez

Books

When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It by Ben Yagoda

Completely Different

Movies (DVD)

Monty Python's Graham Chapman - Looks Like a Brown Trouser Job dir. Richard S. Miller

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny dir. Liam Lynch
Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? dir. Harry Moses
Plan 9 From Outer Space dir. Edward D. Wood, Jr.

Movies (theater)
The Heartbreak Kid dir. Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag dir. Pradeep Sarkar

Books
Lucky by Alice Sebold

Flamboyant and Beautiful

Movies (DVD)
The Fearless Vampire Killers dir. Roman Polanski
Trouble in Paradise dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Books
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson

Silent but Gracious

Movies (DVD)

The Devil's Backbone dir. Guillermo del Toro
Death Proof dir. Quentin Tarantino
Reno 911!: Miami dir. Ben Garant

Books
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Blanks in Memory

Movies (DVD)
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara dir. Jahnu Barua

Strangers with Candy dir. Paul Dinello

Books

Ellison Wonderland by Harlan Ellison

More Than One Way

Movies (DVD)

Zodiac dir. David Fincher

The Good German dir. Steven Soderbergh
Eating Out 2 dir. Phillip J. Bartell

Movies (theater)

Resident Evil: Extinction dir. Russell Mulcahy

Books

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

A Dark Turn

Movies (DVD)

Perfume dir. Tom Tykwer
The Lady Eve dir. Preston Sturges
Bananas dir. Woody Allen

Books
Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara by Joe LeSueur

Do The Right Thing

Movies (DVD)

Out of Sight dir. Steven Soderbergh

Art School Confidential dir. Terry Zwigoff
Dodgeball dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
The Lives of Others dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Movies (theater)
Ladron Que Roba A Ladron... dir. Joe Menendez

Books

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

Lurking

Movies (DVD)

The Host dir. Joon-ho Bong
Blade II dir. Guillermo del Toro
Offside dir. Jafar Panahi
If... dir. Lindsay Anderson
Little Children dir. Todd Field
Sarkar dir. Ram Gopal Verma

Movies (theater)

Superbad dir. Greg Mottola

Books

Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett

Making & Unmaking

Movies (DVD)

The Squid and the Whale dir. Noah Baumbach
Hot Fuzz dir. Edgar Wright
Dark Water dir. Walter Salles
Happily N'Ever After dir. Paul Bolger & Yvette Kaplan
The Palm Beach Story dir. Preston Sturges
The U.S. Vs. John Lennon dir. David Leaf & John Scheinfeld
Bubble dir. Steven Soderbergh

Books

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

More Trouble

Movies (DVD)

Sullivan's Travels dir. Preston Sturges
Cries and Whispers dir. Ingmar Bergman

Movies(theater)
Death at a Funeral dir. Frank Oz

Books
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

Troubled but Resolute

Movies (theater)
The Bourne Ultimatum dir. Paul Greengrass
Stardust dir. Matthew Vaughn

Movies (DVD)
Bridge to Terabithia dir. Gabor Csupo
Advice from a Caterpillar dir. Don Scardino
District B13 dir. Pierre Morel

Multitude of Drops

Books
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Movies (theater)
The Simpsons Movie dir. David Silverman
I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry dir. Dennis Dugan

Movies (DVD)
The Ant Bully dir. John A. Davis

Holiday By Mistake

Movies (DVD)
Withnail & I dir. Bruce Robinson
Aaltra dir. Benoit Delepine & Gustave Kervern

Books
The Call of the Weird by Louis Theroux

Close Encounters

Books
Harum Scarum by Lewis Trondheim

Movies (DVD)
Koi... Mil Gaya dir. Rakesh Roshan
Un Chien Andalou dir. Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
The History Boys dir. Nicholas Hytner
Serenity dir. Joss Whedon
The Motel dir. Michael Kang
Siddhartha dir. Conrad Rooks

Movies (theater)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix dir. David Yates

State of Mind

Movies (DVD)
White Chicks dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
Thumbsucker dir. Mike Mills
Traffic Signal dir. Madhur Bhandarkar

Books
Demo by Brian Wood & Becky Cloonan

Confusion, Heartbreak, and Inconvenience

Books
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid by Lemony Snicket
Adverbs by Daniel Handler

Movies (theater)
Ratatouille dir. Brad Bird

Movies (DVD)
The Iron Ladies dir. Youngyooth Thongkonthun
Infamous dir. Douglas McGrath

Stranger than Fact

Movies (DVD)
The Last King of Scotland dir. Kevin MacDonald
Deliver Us From Evil dir. Amy Berg
The Science of Sleep dir. Michel Gondry
OpenCam dir. Robert Gaston

In the Morning

Movies (DVD)
When Harry Met Sally... dir. Rob Reiner

Stage Fright dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Tideland dir. Terry Gilliam
Dreamgirls dir. Bill Condon

Movies (theater)
Knocked Up dir. Judd Apatow

Books

I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

What it Seems

Movies (DVD)
The Illusionist dir. Neil Burger
Odette dir. Joao Pedro Rodrigues
Anatomy of a Murder dir. Otto Preminger

Movies (theater)
Ocean's Thirteen dir. Steven Soderbergh

At Wit's End

Movies (theater)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End dir. Gore Verbinski

Movies (DVD)
Traffic dir. Steven Soderbergh
Cabaret dir. Bob Fosse
Fahrenheit 451 dir. Francois Truffaut

Books
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley

Radio on TV

Movies (DVD)
A Prairie Home Companion dir. Robert Altman
Don't Tell Anyone dir. Francisco J. Lombardi
Annie Hall dir. Woody Allen
Crash dir. Paul Haggis

Movies (theater)
Shrek the Third dir. Chris Miller & Raman Hui

Books
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir by Dan Mathews

Perfect Crime

Movies (VHS)
Ocean's Eleven dir. Steven Soderbergh

Movies (DVD)
The Descent dir. Neil Marshall
Ocean's Twelve dir. Steven Soderbergh
Saw III dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
Marie Antoinette dir. Sofia Coppola

Never Surrender

Movies (DVD)
Galaxy Quest dir. Dean Parisot
The Maltese Falcon dir. John Huston

Movies (Theater)
Spider-Man 3 dir. Sam Raimi

Books
James Tiptree, Jr. The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips

Iron Hand

Movies (DVD)
Iron Island dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
Eat Drink Man Woman dir. Ang Lee

Books
Garage Band by Gipi

Wide Open

Movies (theater)
Vacancy dir. Nimrod Antal

Movies (VHS)
Trenchcoat dir. Michael Tuchner

Movies (DVD)
A Simple Curve dir. Aubrey Nealon

Life is Short

Movies (DVD)
Ikiru dir. Akira Kurosawa
Broken Sky dir. Julian Hernandez

Desperate Days

Movies (DVD)
Monsieur Verdoux dir. Charles Chaplin
The Wedding Banquet dir. Ang Lee
The Winslow Boy dir. David Mamet
Minority Report dir. Steven Spielberg

Books
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Shared Solitude

Movies (theater)
Blades of Glory dir. Josh Gordon & Will Speck

Movies (DVD)
The Station Agent dir. Thomas McCarthy

God and Satan

Movies (DVD)
The Apple dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
Limelight dir. Charles Chaplin

Movies (Theater)
Meet the Robinsons dir. Stephen J. Anderson
The Namesake dir. Mira Nair

Beyond the Darkness

Movies (DVD)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan dir. Nicholas Meyer
The Steamroller and the Violin dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Raging Bull dir. Martin Scorsese

Books
The Rejection Collection edited by Matthew Diffee

Con of Man

Movies (DVD)
The Da Vinci Code dir. Ron Howard
Star Trek: The Motion Picture dir. Robert Wise

Wealthy and Decadent

Movies (DVD)
Donya dir. Manuchehr Mosayyeri
El Misterio de los Almendros dir. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Movies (theater)
300 dir. Zack Snyder

Books
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Dark Secrets

Movies (DVD)

A Tale of Two Sisters dir. Kim Jee-Woon

Bemisal dir. Hrishikesh Mukherjee

The Lost Weekend dir. Billy Wilder

Once Again

Movies (desi-radio)
Dhoom-2 dir. Sanjay Gadhvi

Movies (DVD)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room dir. Alex Gibney
Blackboards dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
Layer Cake dir. Matthew Vaughn

Hilarious Hangups

Movies (DVD)
Harold and Maude dir. Hal Ashby
A Time for Drunken Horses dir. Bahman Ghobadi
The Queen of the Damned dir. Michael Rymer
Scream dir. Wes Craven
Looney Tunes Back in Action dir. Joe Dante
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green dir. George Bamber

Books
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

Love and Forgiveness

Movies (DVD)
Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles dir. Zhang Yimou
Murderball dir. Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning dir. Jonathan Liebesman
The River dir. Tsai Ming-Liang
This is Spinal Tap dir. Rob Reiner
Crane World dir. Pablo Trapero

Murderer Among Us

Movies (DVD)
M dir. Fritz Lang
Ten dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Internal Affairs dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung, Alan Mak Siu-Fai
Salam Cinema dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Books
The Best American Comics 2006, Harvey Pekar (guest editor)

Pitch-black

Movies (DVD)
Temptress Moon dir. Chen Kaige
Unfaithfully Yours dir. Preston Sturges

Movies (desi radio)
Lage Raho Munnabhai dir. Rajkumar Hirani

Books
The Last Temptation by Neil Gaiman & Michael Zulli

A Simple Miracle

Movies (DVD)
Millions dir. Danny Boyle
Shanghai Triad dir. Zhang Yimou
Women in Love dir. Ken Russell

Movies (Theater)
The Hitcher dir. Dave Meyers
Arthur and the Invisibles dir. Luc Besson
Notes on a Scandal dir. Richard Eyre

Books
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Happiness, not Sacrifice

Movies (DVD)
Chicken Tikka Masala dir. Harmage Singh Kalirai

Movies (Theater)
El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) dir. Guillermo del Toro

Books
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman