Beyond Exploitative

Movies (DVD)
Love Ranch dir. Taylor Hackford
Bully dir. Larry Clark
Bad Teacher dir. Jake Kasdan
Faster dir. George Tillman, Jr.

Movies (theater)
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol dir. Brad Bird
The Adventures of Tintin dir. Steven Spielberg
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows dir. Guy Ritchie

Meditative Mood

Movies (DVD)
Le Quattro Volte dir. Michelangelo Frammartino
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold dir. Morgan Spurlock
The Sorcerer's Apprentice dir. Jon Turteltaub
Green Lantern dir. Martin Campbell

Books
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney

Human Contact

Movies (DVD)
A Year Without Love dir. Anahi Berneri
The Future dir. Miranda July
Cars 2 dir. John Lasseter

Movies (theater)
Shame dir. Steve McQueen
The White Zombie dir. Victor Halperin
The Night of the Living Dead dir. George A. Romero

Ambitious and Passionate

Movies (DVD)
The Tree of Life dir. Terrence Malick
Our Idiot Brother dir. Jesse Peretz

Movies(theater)
My Week With Marilyn dir. Simon Curtis
Outrage dir. Takeshi Kitano
Hugo 3D dir. Martin Scorsese
The Muppets dir. James Bobin

Amusing Rivalry

Movies (DVD)
The Trip dir. Michael Winterbottom
13 dir. Géla Babluani
The Sleeping Beauty dir. Catherine Breillat
No One Knows About Persian Cats dir. Bahman Ghobadi

Movies (theater)
Melancholia dir. Lars Von Trier
Tower Heist dir. Brett Ratner

Imaginary Worlds

Movies (theater)
Immortals dir. Tarsem
A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson
Jack and Jill dir. Dennis Dugan

Movies (DVD)
Trust dir. David Schwimmer
The Oxford Murders dir. Alex De La Iglesia
Griff the Invisible dir. Leon Ford
Wild Target dir. Jonathan Lynn
Everything Must Go dir. Dan Rush

Books
Habibi by Craig Thompson

Inventive Collages

Movies (theater)
In Time dir. Andrew Niccol
Puss In Boots 3D dir. Chris Miller

Movies (DVD)
Machete Maidens Unleashed dir. Mark Hartley

Books
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh

Unforced Rapport

Movies (DVD)
Bridesmaids dir. Paul Feig
Magic Trip dir. Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood

Movies (theater)
Paranormal Activity 3 dir. Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Reverberant Meaning

Movies (theater)
The Skin I Live In dir. Pedro Almodovar

Movies (DVD)
Freakonomics dir. various
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer dir. Alex Gibney
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman dir. Wuershan

Promisingly Hallucinatory

Movies (DVD)
Blitz dir. Elliott Lester
Red State dir. Kevin Smith
Stone dir. John Curran
Life During Wartime dir. Todd Solondz

Movies (theater)
Johnny English Reborn dir. Oliver Parker

Eerily Prescient

Movies (DVD)
The Troll Hunter dir. André Øvredal
Hesher dir. Spencer Susser
Delhi Belly dir. Abhinay Deo
Khela dir. Rituparno Ghosh

Movies (theater)
Dream House dir. Jim Sheridan
Weekend dir. Andrew Haigh

Books
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Unoriginally Postmodern

Movies (DVD)
Scream 4 dir. Wes Craven
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil dir. Mike Disa
Grown Ups dir. Dennis Dugan

Movies (theater)
Drive dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

Stony Rubbish

Movies (DVD)
Waste Land dir. Lucy Walker, João Jardim and Karen Harley
American: The Bill Hicks Story dir. Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop dir. Rodman Flender
The Name of the Rose dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
The Perfect Host dir. Nick Tomnay

Movies (theater)
Tucker and Dale vs Evil dir. Eli Craig
Straw Dogs dir. Rod Lurie

Books
Wandering Son Vol. 1 by Shimura Takako

Cruder Instincts

Movies (theater)
Horrible Bosses dir. Seth Gordon

Movies (DVD)
Action Replayy dir. Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Your Highness dir. David Gordon Green

Nerd Nirvana

Movies (DVD)
Paul dir. Greg Mottola
Drive Angry dir. Patrick Lussier
Christopher and his Kind dir. Geoffrey Sax
I'm Still Here dir. Casey Affleck

Movies (theater)
Littlerock dir. Mike Ott
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame dir. Tsui Hark
Cold Fish dir. Sion Sono

Richly Detailed

Movies (theater)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark dir. Troy Nixey
Contagion dir. Steven Soderbergh

Movies (DVD)
Arthur dir. Jason Winer

Books
Meeks by Julia Holmes

Empowering Excitement

Movies (theater)
!Women Art Revolution dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson
Crazy, Stupid, Love. dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Love Exposure dir. Sion Sono

Movies (DVD)
Insidious dir. James Wan
Summer Wars dir. Mamoru Hosoda
The Killer Inside Me dir. Michael Winterbottom
Tees Maar Khan dir. Farah Khan

Books
Karma by Cathy Ostlere
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

Coping Mechanisms

Movies (theater)
The Help dir. Tate Taylor
Resurrection of Eve dir. Jon Fontana, Artie Mitchell

Movies (DVD)
Mars Needs Moms dir. Simon Wells
Dumbstruck dir. Mark Goffman
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never dir. Jon M. Chu
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
The Mechanic dir. Simon West

Shocking Callousness

Movies (DVD)
We Are What We Are dir. Jorge Michel Grau
I Am Number Four dir. D.J. Caruso
The Big Lebowski dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
Memories in March dir. Sanjoy Nag
The Gore Gore Girls dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis

Movies (theater)
Final Destination 5 3D dir. Steven Quale
Fright Night 3D dir. Craig Gillespie
The Guard dir. John Michael McDonagh

Books
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Flashy and Fun

Movies (DVD)
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen dir. Wai-keung Lau
Heartbeats dir. Xavier Dolan

Movies(theater)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes dir. Rupert Wyatt

Gleefully Corrupt

Movies (DVD)
Dabangg dir. Abhinav Kashyap
Sanctum dir. Alister Grierson

Movies (theater)
Attack the Block dir. Joe Cornish
Winnie the Pooh dir. Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall

Books
A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam

Mash-up

Movies (DVD)
Red Riding Hood dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Prince dir. Kookie V. Gulati
Band Baaja Baaraat dir. Maneesh Sharma

Movies (theater)
Passing Strangers dir. Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.
Cowboys and Aliens dir. Jon Favreau

Stultifying Good Taste

Movies (DVD)
Enter The Void dir. Gasper Noe
Smash His Camera dir. Leon Gast
Beastly dir. Daniel Barnz
Rabbit Hole dir. John Cameron Mitchell
Cracks dir. Jordan Scott

Movies (theater)
Beginners dir. Mike Mills
Rabies dir. Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 dir. David Yates

Books
Mainly About Lindsay Anderson by Gavin Lambert

Gorgeous Detail

Movies (DVD)
The Illusionist dir. Sylvain Chomet
Antaheen dir. Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Megamind dir. Tom McGrath
Marwencol dir. Jeff Malmberg
Were the World Mine dir. Tom Gustafson
Howl dir. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Books
This is a Book by Demetri Martin

Sick Enough

Movies (DVD)
Grotesque dir. Koji Shiraishi
Another Year dir. Mike Leigh
The Roommate dir. Christian E. Christiansen

Movies (theater)
Community Action Center dir. various
L.A. Zombie dir. Bruce LaBruce

Live-wire Energy

Movies (DVD)
Four Lions dir. Chris Morris
Shadows and Lies dir. Jay Anania
Happiness dir. Todd Solondz

Movies (theater)
Please May I Have Another dir. various

Superheroes and Superfreaks

Movies (DVD)
Cross dir. Patrick Durham
Balls Out: Gary The Tennis Coach dir. Danny Leiner

The Dilemma dir. Ron Howard

The Tourist dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Movies (theater)

X-Men: First Class dir. Matthew Vaughn

The Hangover Part II dir. Todd Phillips

Books
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Deceptive Gravitas

Movies (DVD)
Harry Brown dir. Daniel Barber
Mary and Max dir. Adam Elliot
3 Idiots dir. Rajkumar Hirani

The Losers dir. Sylvain White

Movies (theater)
Hobo With A Shotgun dir. Jason Eisener

Books
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen

Melancholy and Audacious

Movies (DVD)
Somewhere dir. Sofia Coppola
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai dir. Milan Luthria
Autograph dir. Srijit Mukherjee
Gnomeo and Juliet dir. Kelly Asbury
Edge of Darkness dir. Martin Campbell
Buried dir. Rodrigo Cortés

Movies (theater)
Dance Hall Racket dir. Phil Tucker
The Violent Years dir. Thomas Morgan
The Wild Pussycat dir. Dimis Dadiras
Midnight in Paris dir. Woody Allen

Books
Unprotected Texts by Jennifer Wright Knust

Blunt and Boisterous

Movies (DVD)
RED dir. Robert Schwentke
Brotherhood dir. Will Canon
Gulliver's Travels dir. Rob Letterman

Movies (theater)
Whispering City dir. Fyodor Otsep
Ruthless dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
A Labor of Love dir. Robert Flaxman & Dan Goldman
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides dir. Rob Marshall

Occasionaly Belligerent

Movies (DVD)
It's Kind of a Funny Story dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Tarkan vs. the Vikings dir. Mehmet Aslan
The Deathless Devil dir. Yilmaz Atadeniz
Blue Valentine dir. Derek Cianfrance
Vapid Shallow Models Must Die dir. Michael Haboush
Frozen dir. Adam Green

Movies (theater)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D dir. Werner Herzog
Priest 3D dir. Scott Charles Stewart
The Spiritualist dir. Bernard Vorhaus
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes dir. John Farrow

Books
Brain Camp by Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan, Faith Erin Hicks

Pretty Gory

Movies (theater)
Stake Land dir. Jim Mickle
Thor 3D dir. Kenneth Branagh

Movies (DVD)
Lucky dir. Jeffrey Blitz
Hatchet II dir. Adam Green
High Tension dir. Alexandre Aja

Books
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
Weird Fishes by Jamaica Dyer

Dry Dust

Movies (DVD)
Ten Canoes dir. Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr
I Spit on Your Grave dir. Steven R. Monroe
The King's Speech dir. Tom Hooper
Dinoshark dir. Kevin O'Neill
Hereafter dir. Clint Eastwood
I Love You Phillip Morris dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

Movies (theater)
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night dir. Kevin Munroe
13 Assassins dir. Takashi Miike

Lackluster

Movies (DVD)
Case 39 dir. Christian Alvart
Burlesque dir. Steve Antin
127 Hours dir. Danny Boyle
Pyaar Impossible! dir. Jugal Hansraj
Sex & The City 2 dir. Michael Patrick King
The Spy Next Door dir. Brian Levant

Dark Undercurrents

Movies (theater)
Super dir. James Gunn
Hanna dir. Joe Wright

Movies (DVD)
Dorian Gray dir. Oliver Parker
Four Christmases dir. Seth Gordon
Love and Other Drugs dir. Edward Zwick
Giallo dir. Dario Argento
The Expendables dir. Sylvester Stallone

Governed by Conventions

Movies (DVD)
The Fighter dir. David O. Russell
Dogtooth dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Vengeance dir. Johnnie To
In the Arms of My Enemy dir. Micha Wald
Notobor Not Out dir. Amit Sen
Jack Goes Boating dir. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Shabnam Mausi dir. Yogesh Bharadwaj
Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Leterrier

Books
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Rolling Inexorably

Movies (theater)
Rubber dir. Quentin Dupieux
Source Code dir. Duncan Jones

Movies (DVD)
Gorosthaney Sabdhan dir. Sandip Ray
Salt dir. Phillip Noyce
Douches Froides dir. Antony Cordier
Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller

Visual Fizz

Movies (DVD)
Tales from Earthsea dir. Goro Miyazaki
Metropia dir. Tarik Saleh

Movies (theater)
Battle: Los Angeles dir. Jonathan Liebesman

Cold Turkey

Books
Too Cool To Be Forgotten by Alex Robinson
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney

Movies (theater)
The Lincoln Lawyer dir. Brad Furman

Movies (DVD)
Finding Bliss dir. Julie Davis
My Soul to Take dir. Wes Craven

Pleasure and Heartbreak

Movies (theater)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Rango dir. Gore Verbinski

Movies (DVD)
Predators dir. Nimrod Antal
Tamara Drewe dir. Stephen Frears
The Transporter dir. Louis Leterrier
Transporter 2 dir. Louis Leterrier
Last Train Home dir. Lixin Fan

Wickedly Weird

Movies (theater)
The Woman Chaser dir. Robinson Devor
I Saw The Devil dir. Ji-woon Kim

Movies (DVD)
Paper Man dir. Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney
Wrecked dir. Bernard & Harry Shumanski
Astro Boy dir. David Bowers
Road, Movie dir. Dev Benegal
Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge? dir. Ashwani Dhir

Books
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Gratuitous Moments

Movies (theater)
Hall Pass dir. Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Unknown dir. Jaume Collet-Serra

Movies (DVD)
Family Guy Something, Something, Something, Dark Side dir. Dominic Polcino
Devil dir. John Erick Dowdle
You Don't Know Jack dir. Barry Levinson
Tere Bin Laden dir. Abhishek Sharma
Lennon Naked dir. Edmund Coulthard