2006 Totals

Total Movies - 189

Stats:
Rent - 88
Own - 63
Theater - 5
TV - 26
Other - 7
First Viewing - 124

December Totals

December Total = 10

2006 Total = 189

Stats:
Rent - 6
Own - 2
Theater - 0
TV - 1
Other - 1
First Viewing - 7

Big Fish (2003)

Dir. Tim Burton

William Bloom (Billy Crudup) tries to learn more about his dying father, Edward (Albert Finney), by piecing together the facts out of the various fantastic tales and legends of epic proportions he's been told over the years. Edward was a traveling salesman, and his journeys throughout the South are the seed of the tales. Directed by Tim Burton, the movie co-stars Ewan McGregor (as the young Edward), Helena Bonham-Carter and Steve Buscemi.

Freeze Me (2000)

Dir. Takashi Ishii

Chihiro (Harumi Inoue) is a young woman trying to make a new life for herself in Tokyo. She has a good office job and a fiancé named Nogami (Shunsuke Matsuoka), but her life changes when a moment of extreme terror from her past shows up at her door in the form of three deadbeats who raped her five years earlier. They want to finish what they started, but Chihiro will run no more!

Black Christmas (1974)

Dir. Bob Clark

Terror reigns inside a sorority house a few days before Christmas break as a series of menacing phone calls -- and the discovery of a dead girl's body -- transform yuletide cheer into fear. Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey and Andrea Martin ("SCTV") co-star as just a few of the petrified sisters at the mercy of an unseen stalker in this 1970s horror gem from director Robert Clark, who told a much happier holiday tale with his 1983 classic, A Christmas Story.

Prime (2005)

Dir. Ben Younger

This refreshingly offbeat comedy puts love under the microscope. Newly divorced and wondering what the world now has to offer her, Rafi (Uma Thurman), a Manhattan businesswoman, is surprised at how quickly love finds her in the form of Dave (Bryan Greenberg), her polar opposite, an artist from Brooklyn. But is the situation as blissful as it seems to everyone around her, from her shrink (Meryl Streep) to her best pals? Rafi quickly finds out. …

M (1931)

Dir. Fritz Lang

German-American director Fritz Lang presents his first "talkie" -- and cinema's first serial killer -- in this 1931 classic. Plump pedophile Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), propelled by a compulsion he can't control, escapes the eye of the law -- but not the wrath of the Berlin underworld being blamed for his crimes. The character of Beckert was later used in Nazi propaganda films to illustrate the evils of sexual deviance.

Night of the Creeps (1986)

Dir. Fred Dekker

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

Clerks 2 (2006)

Dir. Kevin Smith

Seasoned slackers Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) sadly find themselves working behind the fast-food counter of Mooby's after a catastrophe drives them away from their previous dead-end jobs. Picking up 10 years after their original misfit misadventures, director Kevin Smith revisits the doldrums and daily routines of New Jersey's minimum-wage employees in the sequel to his career-defining first film, Clerks.

Doom Generation (1995)

Dir. Gregg Araki

Carnage ensues when trash-mouthed, meth-freak Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) and her dim-bulb boyfriend, Jordan White (James Duval), save depraved drifter Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech) from some skinheads. A clash with a convenience-store clerk leads to a killing, and the trio finds themselves on the run. Their hellish road trip spawns remorseless brutality; as the journey proceeds, it grows ever more nihilistic -- resulting in a shattering conclusion.

Beerfest (2006)

Dir. Jay Chandrasekhar

Two German-American brothers vow to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor in this outrageous comedy. During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, Wolfhouse siblings Todd (Erik Stolhanske) and Jan (Paul Soter) discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest. When their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, they return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Dir. Billy Wilder

With its transvestitism, palpable sex and murder, Billy Wilder's legendary screwball comedy reveals dark, hilarious roots. Musicians Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and get out of town the only way they know how -- dressed as women. On the road to Florida with an all-girl band, they meet Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), and things start to heat up in this legendary farce.

Totals Update (November)

November Total = 13

2006 Total = 179

Stats:
Rent - 6
Own - 1
Theater - 1
TV - 3
Other - 2
First Viewing - 9