July 2013

Books:
1) A Game of Thrones George RR Martin
2) Swamplandia Karen Russell
3) The Proud Tower Barbara Tuchman
4) Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion
5) Tourist Season Carl Hiasson
6) The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
7) Anno-Dracula Kim Newman
8) Family Fang Kevin Wilson
9) Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
10) Last Call Daniel Okrent
11) Trickster Makes This World Lewis Hyde

Movies:
1) Mr and Mrs Smith
2) Avalon Barry Levinson
3) Pacific Rim Guillermo Del Toro
4) Best in Show Christopher Guest
5) The Thin Man WS Van Dyke
6) Aliens James Cameron
7) For Your Consideration Christopher Guest
8) Get Shorty Barry Levinson

June 2013

Books:
1) Winter's Tale Mark Helprin
2) Moonlight Mile Dennis Lehane
3) Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
4) The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
5) Neuromancer William Gibson
6) Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
7) The Presidency of William McKinley Lewis Gould
8) Godric Frederick Buechner
9) The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman
10) The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris
11) City of Saints and Madmen Jeff Vandermeer
12) Theodore Rex Edmund Morris
13) Lion Country Frederick Buechner
14) Cuba Libre Elmore Leonard
15) Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris
16) True Grit Charles Portis



Movies:
1) Metropolis Fritz Lang
2) From Dusk Till Dawn Robert Rodriguez
3) Mars Attacks Tim Burton
4) Star Trek Into Darkness JJ Abrams
5) Wings of Desire Wim Wenders
6) Man of Steel Zach Snyder
7) Raising Arizona Coen Brothers
8) LA Confidential Curtis Hanson
9) Notorious Alfred Hitchcock
10) Side Effects Steven Soderburgh

May 2013

Books:
1) The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
2) Gilead Marilynne Robinson
3) Awake in the Dark Roger Ebert
4) Last Call Tim Powers
5) The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
6) The Given Day Dennis Lehane
7) Native Tongue Carl Hiaason
8) Freedom Jonathan Franzen
9) The Gift Vladimir Nabokov
10) Hitchcock/Truffault
11) The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison Homer Socolofsky


Movies:
1) Friday the 13th Sean S Cunningham
2) Schindler's List Steven Spielberg
4) Pierrot Le Fou Jean Luc Godard
5) The Pledge Sean Penn
6) Ministry of Fear Fritz Lang
7) Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick
8) Mr and Mrs Smith Doug Liman
9) The Birds Alfred Hitchcock
10) Men in Black 3 Barry Sonnenfeld
11) MASH Robert Altman
12) Being There Hal Ashby
13) Black Dynamite Scott Sanders
14) Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock
15) Network Sydney Lumet
16) Platoon Oliver Stone

April 2013

Books:
1) How to Live- A Life of Montaigne in One Questions and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Sara Blakewell
2) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
3) Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself David Lipski
4) The Reader Bernhard Schlink
5) The Shining Stephen King
6) Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor
7) Pictures at a Revolution Mark Harris
8) Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Peter Biskind
9) Push Sapphire
10) The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington
11) Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls David Sedaris
12) The Complete Essays Montaigne
13) Home Marilynn Robinson
14) Til We Have Faces CS Lewis


Movies:

1) In Bruges Martin McDonagh
2) Diabolique Henri-George Clouzot
3) Monty Python's Life of Brian Terry Jones
4) The Paradine Case Alfred Hitchcock
5) Playtime Jaques Tati
6) Young and Innocent (alt. title The Girl Was Young) Alfred Hitchcock
7) Sanjuro Akira Kurosawa
8) Bob Le Flambeur Jean Pierre Melville
9) The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
10) Repo Man Alex Cox
12) Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
13) Before Sunrise Richard Linklater
14) Before Sunset Richard Linklater
15) The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdonovich
16) Sunrise FW Murnau

March 2013

Books:
1) Chester Alan Arthur Zachary Karabel
2) The Pale King David Foster Wallace
3) The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe
4) Claw of the Concilliator Gene Wolfe
5) Sword of the Lichtor Gene Wolfe
6) Castle of the Autarch Gene Wolfe
7) Mary Vladimir Nabokov
8) Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
9) Grover Cleveland Henry Graff
10) Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan
11) 2666 Roberto Bolano
12) Dirt: The Erosion of Civiliations David R Montgomery
13) A Childhood: A biography of a Place Harry Crews
14) A Scanner Darkly Philip K Dick
15) Bag of Bones Stephen King
16) Dimension of Miracles Robert Sheckly


Movies:
1) Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
2) Skyfall Sam Mendes
3) The New World Terrance Malick
4) M Fritz Lang
5) The Town Ben Affleck
6) Badlands Terrance Malick
7) White Krzysztof Kieślowski
8) The Great Moment Preston Sturges
9) The Lodger Alfred Hitchcock
10) How Green Was My Valley John Ford
11) Five Easy Pieces Bob Rafelson
12) The Philadelphia Story George Cukor

February 2013

Books:
1) Battle Cry of Freedom John McPherson
2) Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
3) Memoir From Antproof Case Mark Helprin
4) Moby Dick Herman Melville
5) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
6) Don't Get Too Comfortable David Rakoff
7) The Thanatos Syndrome Walker Percy
8) A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter Miller
9) The first three Swamp Thing graphic novels Alan Moore


Movies:
1) Gross Pointe Blank George Armitage
2) The Game David Fincher

January 2013

Books:
1) The Aleph Jorge Luis Borges
2) More Baths, Less Talk Nick Hornby
3) The Man Who Saved the Union: Ullysses Grant at War and Peace HW Brand
4) The Translator John Crowley
5) Rutherford B. Hayes Hans L. Trefousse
6) Destiny of the Republic Candace Millard
7) Every Love Story is a Ghost Story DT Max
8) A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace
9) Girl With Curious Hair David Foster Wallace

Movies:
1) Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino
2) The Hobbit Peter Jackson
3) Intolerable Cruelty Coen Brothers (x2)
4) Looper Rian Johnson
5) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Lorene Scafaria
6) Shame Steve McQueen