Movies I've Watched This Year

Director: David Fincher.

Key Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara and Christopher Plummer.

Run Time: 158 minutes.

Summary: Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.

Date Watched: January 24th, 2012.

Director: Darren Aronofsky.

Key Cast: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel.

Run Time: 108 minutes.

Summary: A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

Date Watched: January 26th, 2012.

Director: Guy Ritchie.

Key Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Jared Harris.

Run Time: 129 minutes.

Summary: Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty..

Date Watched: January 27th, 2012.

Director: Tomas Alfredson.

Key Cast: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Run Time: 127 minutes.

Summary: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6.

Date Watched: January 29th, 2012.

Director: John Woo.

Key Cast: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage and Joan Allen.

Run Time: 127 minutes.

Summary: A revolutionary medical technique allows an undercover agent to take the physical appearance of a major criminal and infiltrate his organization.

Date Watched: February 1st, 2012.

Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard.

Key Cast: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna Murphy.

Run Time: 100 minutes.

Summary: The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

Date Watched: February 2nd, 2012.

Director: John Lasseter, Brad Lewis.

Key Cast: Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy and Michael Caine.

Run Time: 106 minutes.

Summary: Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.

Date Watched: February 2nd, 2012.

Director: Alexander Payne.

Key Cast: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen.

Run Time: 126 minutes.

Summary: Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.

Date Watched: February 4th, 2012.

Director: Chris Miller.

Key Cast: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek and Zach Galifianakis.

Run Time: 90 minutes.

Summary: A story about the events leading up to the sword fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends.

Date Watched: February 5th, 2012.

Director: Paul Feig.

Key Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne.

Run Time: 126 minutes.

Summary: Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

Date Watched: February 6th, 2012.

Director: Oliver Parker.

Key Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike and Dominic West.

Run Time: 101 minutes.

Summary: Johnny English goes up against international assassins hunting down the Chinese premier.

Date Watched: February 18th, 2012.

Director: David Fincher.

Key Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.

Run Time: 139 minutes.

Summary: An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that transforms into a violent revolution.

Date Watched: March 5th, 2012.

Director: Woody Allen.

Key Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates.

Run Time: 94 minutes.

Summary: A family travel to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple who are forced to confront their differing views of a perfect life.

Date Watched: February 16th, 2012.

Director: James Mangold.

Key Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie and Whoopi Goldberg.

Run Time: 127 minutes.

Summary: Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.

Date Watched: March 9th, 2012.

Director: Matthew Vaughn.

Key Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence.

Run Time: 132 minutes.

Summary: JIn 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start world war III.

Date Watched: April 2nd, 2012.

Director: Steven Soderbergh.

Key Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney and David Brisbin.

Run Time: 131 minutes.

Summary: An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Date Watched: April 5th, 2012.

Director: Gary Ross.

Key Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.

Run Time: 131 minutes.

Summary: Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.

Date Watched: April 6th, 2012.

Director: Timur Bekmambetov.

Key Cast: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman.

Run Time: 110 minutes.

Summary: A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.

Date Watched: April 7th, 2012.

Director: Tom Cairns.

Key Cast: Julianne Moore, Matthew Broderick and Bob Balaban.

Run Time: 90 minutes.

Summary: Based on a play by Wallace Shawn, the film is a dark but comical glimpse at one day in the breakdown of a marriage.

Date Watched: February 20th, 2012.

Director: Oliver Stone.

Key Cast: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas and Tamara Tunie.

Run Time: 126 minutes.

Summary: A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

Date Watched: April 9th, 2012.

Director: Andy Fickman.

Key Cast: Kristen Bell, Odette Annable and Sigourney Weaver.

Run Time: 105 minutes.

Summary: When a young woman realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancée's true colors.

Date Watched: April 22nd, 2012.

Director: Joe Johnston.

Key Cast: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Samuel L. Jackson.

Run Time: 124 minutes.

Summary: After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending the USA's ideals.

Date Watched: May 5th, 2012.

Director: Christopher Nolan.

Key Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page.

Run Time: 148 minutes.

Summary: In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.

Date Watched: May 5th, 2012.

Director: Wes Craven.

Key Cast: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy and Brian Cox.

Run Time: 85 minutes.

Summary: A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.

Date Watched: May 6th, 2012.

Director: Robert Luketic.

Key Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Michael Vartan and Jane Fonda.

Run Time: 101 minutes.

Summary: The love life of Charlotte is reduced to an endless string of disastrous blind dates, until she meets the perfect man, Kevin. Unfortunately, his merciless mother will do anything to destroy their relationship.

Date Watched: May 6th, 2012.

Director: Joss Whedon.

Key Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson.

Run Time: 143 minutes.

Summary: Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army.

Date Watched: May 8th, 2012.