THE DANMAN CAN

Just wanted to plug Michael Mackenzie & Lee Howard 's Movie Matters Podcast . I was previously a guest on their Brian De Palma Special episode. They were kind enough to include my MP 3 submission of my Top 10 Films Of 2011 in this current epsiode. I hope you'll take a listen here .

My blog is 1 year old today! I posted about my yearly film watching ratios on Valentine's Day of last year (that's not sad, right...?). I'm reposting that info here to include 2011 : 2005 - 339 (that's a lot of films!) 2006 - 369 (wow, more films than days in the year!!) 2007 - 274 (quite the jump down!) 2008 - 270 (very similar to 2007 ) 2009 - 234 (steadily declining) 2010 - 188 (whoa, BIG drop) 2011 - 236 (back up from 2010 and on par with 2009 ) Here's hoping for some great 2012 films (and music), with such anticipated titles as Ridley Scott 's Xenomorph -less Alien prequel Prometheus , Tarantino 's  Django Unchained , Sam Mendes ' Bond film Skyfall , Tim Burton 's full-length stop motion remake of Frankenweenie , The Dark Knight Rises and Soderbergh 's Haywire !

Drive **** * The Tree Of Life **** ( Review ) Hanna *** * ( Review ) Contagion **** Hobo With A Shotgun **** ( Review) X-Men: First Class **** ( Review ) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ***1/2 ( Review ) Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes *** 1 / 2 A Dangerous Method *** 1 / 2 The Muppets *** 1 / 2 ( Review ) Honorable Mentions 1 . Source Code *** 1 / 2 ( Review ) 2 . I Saw The Devil *** 1 / 2 3 . Insidious *** ( Review ) Biggest Disappointment Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy *** ( Review ) Worst Film Attack The Block * ( Review ) Note: The reason that some selections have higher star ratings, but lower positions has to do with replay value, entertainment value, credibility/deliverance within genre, etc. I thought it would be fun to include all my previous Top Films since I started keeping track of them, when I used to work for Newbury Comics . Looking back at these, there are a bunch of titles that I would definitely shift to higher or ...

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead   Tao Of The Dead ****1/2 Death Cab For Cutie   Codes And Keys **** ( Review ) Thao & Mirah   Thao & Mirah ****1/2 ( Review ) Boots Electric   Honkey Kong **** ( Review ) St. Vincent   Strange Mercy **** The Black Keys   El Camino **** ( Review ) Peter Gabriel New Blood ****1/2 ( Review ) My Morning Jacket   Circuital ***1/2 ( Review ) Tom Waits   Bad As Me ***1/2 ( Review ) The Cars   Move Like This ***1/2 Charles Bradley   No Time For Dreaming **** Foo Fighters   Wasting Light ***1/2 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross   The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Soundtrack) **** Primus   Green Naugahyde ***1/2 The Chemical Brothers   Hanna (Soundtrack) **** Trap Them Darker Handcraft **** The Go! Team   Rolling Blackouts ***1/2 Fujiya & Miyagi   Ventriloquizzing ***1/2 Cliff Martinez...