December

• A League of Their Own ••••o
• Walk the Line •••••
• The Duchess •••o
• Pride and Prejudice (2005) •••o
• Practical Magic •••o
• Elf •••••
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter •••••

November

• The Avengers •••••
• Captain America ••••o
• Thor ••••

October

• The Green Lantern: That was bad. Man. Could have been worse, but wow. •o

September

• Last Hours in Suburbia: Watered-down Faith and Buffy -- you know, minus vampires, really it's just your stereotypical "bad girl"/good girl friendship but I can't see those without thinking BtVS -- are BFFs and fake Faith dies in a car accident. Whose fault is it? MINE, FOR WATCHING THIS. Fake Faith just made me miss Actual Faith. •
• Sexting in Suburbia: I'm adding this in a month later and I can't remember much about it except: SEXTING! VLOGS! EVIL FRIENDS! Here's a better review: http://lifetimewow.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/sexting-in-suburbia/ I kept watching it despite my non-attachment to it because I like the mom in this movie (AND the next Suburbia-riffic movie Lifetime showed), who played a DNA tech in CSI. •

August

• La Bohéme: Watched during naptime on a beach vacation, pretty much the perfect time to watch silent melodrama. Rabbit wanted to know why the actors weren't speaking. I have no idea how to rate this, so I won't do it. I refuse!

July

• Fugitive at 17: Chick is accused of killing her best friend, when the BFF was actually drugged at a frat party. Chick is a ~~HACKER~~ so she wears Goth Lite clothing, of course. ••

June

• Talhotblond: Ah what a creepy little train-wreck! Predictable but it's based on a true story so that's not the movie's fault. Solid acting -- good enough to keep me AND M. hooked til the end, at least. I wonder how many people get the documentary (same name) confused with the Lifetime movie. To confuse matters more, the Dish listing refers to it as Tall Hot Blonde for whatever reason. Anyway, creepy. •••
• Iron Man: RDJ forever, the end. •••
• Red Riding Hood: I love fairy tale adaptations, so I couldn't resist watching this one night while I got Birdie to sleep. Didn't expect much because I remembered how awful it looked in ads. It was pretty bad, like laughing-at-inappropriate-moments bad, but it turns out that I like Amanda Seyfried. Who knew? ••
• Bridesmaids: Woohoo, free HBO weekend! Liked it almost as much as the hype wanted me to like it. •••o
• Imaginary Friend: I couldn't help it -- this Lifetime movie boasts Ethan Embry and Lacey Chabert. My loyalty to the 90s wouldn't let me change the channel. Completely ridiculous but in that horrible/entertaining way. ••
• Beauty and the Beast: Still one of my fave Disneys. I turned it on for the kids but ended up watching it myself. Sort of afraid to watch the "special extended version," though. ••••

May

• Flag of Our Fathers: Memorial Day, exception to my No War Movies rule. I don't think I'd call it ENJOYABLE (it's a war movie after all) but I thought it was excellent, especially Adam Beach's performance. ••••
• The Adventures of Tintin: This is one of Rabbit's current favorites. I expected to hate it because of the creepy animation style but I found myself loving it. Pretty charming. •••o
• Hancock: IDK, there was nothing else on and I spotted Jason Bateman. Really don't have any strong opinions either way; it wasn't great or even compelling, but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen, either. ••

April

• A Trusted Man: Cordy! And some other super-predictable stuff, so predictable I was like "No, that must be a red herring, OH WAIT, this is a Lifetime movie, I need to stop overthinking it." •o
• The Wife He Met Online: I waited too long to review this; now all I remember is that the wife he met online is batshit crazy, in a lethal sort of way. •
• The Sterile Cuckoo: •••
• Murder on Pleasant Drive: I think 1 1/2 stars is my new standard rating for predictable-but-not-horrible Lifetime movies. Woman's mom is missing, she suspects her stepfather of foul play, based on a true story. I left this on on the teevee because I didn't want anything on that would distract me from the work I was doing, and I like one of the featured actresses (whom I know as the chick from "Lie to Me"). •o
• Sidney White: Cute-ish college take on the Snow White story. It goes for the cheap jokes but it's essentially harmless. I can't think of anyone who would, like, purposefully rent it just to watch it, though. ••

March

• Confined: LMN showed this Emma Caulfield movie -- nutshell: Does creepy neighbor have secret underground prisoner? -- right after a Nicholas Brendon movie. The maybe-villain's name was Fritz WOLFRAM. I choose to think this was all done on purpose. •o
• My Neighbor's Secret: I was halfway through this (I have a fondness for horrible movies that star Nicholas Brendon) when I realized I'd seen most of it before. It is truly awful. The only reason I didn't turn it off: the scenes where Brendon watches hidden camera footage, talking to the screen while eating popcorn or whatever? HILARIOUS. o
• The Hunger Games: OH MY GOD I LOVE KATNISS EVEN MORE ON SCREEN THAN I DID IN THE BOOK. I know adults who haven't read the books (or the ones who hated the books) will totally think of this as the new Twilight -- especially since that's the way it's being marketed -- but I don't care, I love it SO HARD. The Girl on Fire visuals are even better than I imagined them. ••••

February

• Drew Peterson: Untouchable: Hilariously awful. Watch five seconds of Rob Lowe's performance as Peterson on YouTube or something, and you'll understand why it was so hilarious; I feel bad for the IRL victims' families because there is no way anyone is taking this movie seriously. I was actively guffawing at the end. •
• White Noise 2: The Light: LOL FOREVER. I flipped to this for the Fillion factor and kept watching because I couldn't look away. I see tons of good reviews online, but it was so cheesy! Interesting premise, but I could have topped three pizzas with it. •o/realistically ••••/for lols.
• Wall-E: Peaches is OBSESSED with this movie right now. I've only watched it half-assedly before, but we all watched it together one afternoon, with pizza. It's ADORABLE, holy crap. ••••
• Secrets of Eden: Standard Lifetime fare, but I liked it. Enjoyed John Stamos in this one, and there are TWO Degrassi kids in there -- I was a little tickled when I noticed that. I called it pretty early, but it was good enough that I didn't care about predictability. •••

January

• -30-: Slapping a female reporter's ass, what! Sometimes the convo sounded canned and it was predictable but I liked it and enjoyed the peek into the mid-twentieth-century newspaper world. It's impossible to find info on this online, btw, with that title, even if I add "Jack Webb" and "1959" to the keywords. •••o
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: I SAW A MOVIE IN THE THEATER, MIRACLES DO HAPPEN. Loved it, would have loved more Irene Adler and less slow-mo explosions (when Mike says "Yes, it was a little excessive," you've gone too far) but who am I to quibble with movie directors? (DID I MENTION I SAW A MOVIE IN THE THEATER. THERE WAS POPCORN!) •••••
• The Tao of Steve: Nothing WRONG AND HORRIBLE about it, but it didn't thrill me to the core either. I like Donal Logue in general, and I enjoyed the philosophical stuff sprinkled throughout the movie, but I expected more than a standard romantic comedy plot -- which it what it has, in the end. ••o
• Mean Girls: A bit overhyped but I've watched it at least three times so it can't be TOO bad, huh. •••o