Surface of Things

Movies (theater)
A Thousand Words dir. Brian Robbins

Movies (DVD)
General Orders No. 9 dir. Robert Persons
Yeh Saali Zindagi dir. Sudhir Mishra
Take Shelter dir. Jeff Nichols

Books
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet

Caustic Exercise

Movies (theater)
A Dangerous Method dir. David Cronenberg
Carnage dir. Roman Polanski
John Carter of Mars IMAX 3D dir. Andrew Stanton

Movies (DVD)
Fruit Fly dir. H. P. Mendoza
Tiny Furniture dir. Lena Dunham

Blatantly Profane

Movies (DVD)
A Better Life dir. Chris Weitz
3 dir. Tom Tykwer

Movies (theater)
The Story of Temple Drake dir. Stephen Roberts
Call Her Savage dir. John Francis Dillon
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax 3D dir. Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye dir. Marie Losier

Books
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Wandering Son Volume Two by Shimura Takako

Unsettling and Engrossing

Movies (DVD)
Super 8 dir. J. J. Abrams
Project Nim dir. James Marsh
Larry Crowne dir. Tom Hanks

Precision and Logic

Movies (theater)
Beside My Brother dir. Markus Englmair
Journey 2 3D dir. Brad Peyton
This Means War dir. McG
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D dir. Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

Movies (DVD)
Rio dir. Carlos Saldanha
Something Borrowed dir. Luke Greenfield
Submarine dir. Richard Ayoade

Fresh Yet Familiar

Movies (DVD)

You Again dir. Andy Fickman
Robin Hood dir. Ridley Scott
Public Enemies dir. Michael Mann
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 dir. Bill Condon

Movies (theater)

I Like You dir. Jamie Heinrich
Gandu dir. Q

Books
The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes

Bounce and Snap

Movies (DVD)
Mr. Popper's Penguins dir. Mark Waters

Inside Job dir. Charles Ferguson
Fish Out of Water dir. Ky Dickens
Shark Night dir. David R. Ellis
Chaplin dir. Anindya Bandyopadhyay

Movies (theater)

Brief Encounter dir. David Lean

Books
Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes