Today is the first day of 2014.   For several years, my friend and I have gone low-key with NYE festivities by eating dinner at Carraba’s and going to the movies to ring in the New Year with some of our favorite actors/actresses.  Last night, we saw Anchorman 2 and American Hustle, thereby ringing in the New Year with Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper (not a bad combination).  These aren’t the only movies I see during the year, however, and some of my blogs will probably be movie reviews.  As a quickie:  Anchorman 2 is utterly hilarious, and Steve Carell’s character is side-splittingly funny.  It was a great way to start our double feature.  American Hustle is right there in line with past Oscar nominees, which I predict it will be one.  Christian Bale’s acting is flawless, Amy Adams is awesome, and Bradley Cooper has REALLY nailed the freak out scene between this one and Silver Linings Playbook. With both of these movies, I was lost in the 70’s through the costuming and the soundtrack.  It was marvelous.

Here are the rest of the movies I saw during the year 2013:

In the Theater:

1. Promised Land

2. Zero Dark Thirty

3. Silver Linings Playbook

4. Django Unchained

5. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

6. Jack the Giant Slayer

7. Oz the Great and Powerful

8. Mud

9. The Great Gatsby

10. Iron Man 3

11. Monsters University

12. World War Z

13. Man of Steel

14. Despicable Me 2

15. White House Down

16. The Heat

17. The Lone Ranger

18. RIPD

19. The Wolverine

20. Eric Clapton’s Crossroads 2013

21. The Butler

22. Thor: The Dark World

23. Catching Fire

24. The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

25. Saving Mr. Banks

26. Anchorman 2 (New Year’s Eve)

At Home, Never Seen Before

1. Looper

2. Beasts of the Southern Wild

3. Timeline

4. El Dorado

5. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

6. The Grifters

7. Our Idiot Brother

8. Heavenly Creatures

9. Scream 4

10. Super

11. Serious Moonlight

12. Red

13. The Thing Called Love

14. The Muppets

15. Pitch Perfect

16. The Other Woman

17. Loverboy

18. Men In Black III

19. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

20. Searching For Sugarman

21. Megafault

22. Real Steel

23. Source Code

24. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

25. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

26. Sharknado

27. The Odd Life of Timothy Green

28. Teen Beach Movie

29. Zodiac

30. American Graffiti

31. Downton Abbey, Season 1

32. Downton Abbey, Season 2

33. Limitless

34. The Christmas Ornament

35. The Three Gifts

36. The Sound of Music (Carrie Underwood)

37. A Very Brady Christmas

38. Downton Abbey, Season 3

At Home, Repeat

1. Cocktail

2. The Italian Job

3. The Big Lebowski

4. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

5. Billy Madison

6. The Book of Eli

7. The Bourne Identity

8. The Bourne Supremacy

9. The Bourne Ultimatum

10. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

11. We Are Marshall

12. Braveheart

13. Bernie

14. Wayne’s World

15. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

16. Xanadu

17. The Butterfly Effect

18. Across the Universe

19. Veronica Mars, Season 1

20. Veronica Mars, Season 2

21. Veronica Mars, Season 3

22. The Breakfast Club

23. Alias, Season 1

24. Singles

25. Alias, Season 2

26. Alias, Season 3

27. Alias, Season 4

28. Alias, Season 5

29. Thirteen Ghosts

30. Hudsucker Proxy

31. Pulp Fiction

32. Breakin’ 2: The Electric Boogaloo

33. Christmas With the Kranks

34. There Will Be Blood

35. Bridget Jones’ Diary

36. Walk the Line

37. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

38. Elf

39. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

40. Scrooged

41. A Christmas Story

42. Rudolph’s Shiny New Year

43. 200 Cigarettes