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Sticky: Books & Films & Plays 2008
Books
1. Tracy Chevalier, Girl With a Pearl Earring **** (01/01)
2. David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars **** (03/01)
3. Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves **** (04/01)
4. Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck ***** (11/01)
5. Thomas More, Utopia *** (15/01)
6. Eileen Chang, Lust, Caution **** (15/01)
7. Graham Greene, The End of the Affair ***** (19/01)
-- Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn: ABANDONED due to crapness, may resume later
8. Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace **** (30/01)
9. Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty ***** (31/01)
10. Libba Bray, Rebel Angels **** (04/02)
11. Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise ***** (11/02)
12. Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing ***** (13/02)
13. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine Part One *** (16/02)
14. William Shakespeare, Henry V ***** (18/02)
15. Holly Black, Tithe **** (22/02)
16. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, *** (25/02)
17. Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now ***** (29/02)
18. Christopher Marlowe, Hero & Leander **** (03/03)
19. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ***** (03/03)
20. Laura Esquivel, Like Water For Chocolate *** (04/03)
21. Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road ****1/2 (10/03)
22. Ben Jonson, Volpone *** (11/03)
23. Meg Rosoff, What I Was **** (13/03)
-- BONUS FEATURE! 1099 installments of Questionable Content *****
24. Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together **** (17/03)
25. Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants ***1/2 (26/03)
26. Susan Cooper, King of Shadows **** (28/03)
27. Cecil Castellucci & Jim Rugg, The Plain Janes *** (29/03)
28. Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip ***** (29/03)
29. David Levithan & Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ***** (30/03)
30. Graham Greene, Our Man In Havana **** (02/04)
31. Haruki Murukami, Norwegian Wood, ***1/2 (03/04)
32. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep ***** (07/04)
33. E.M. Forster, A Room with a View ***** (12/04)
34. Irene Nemirovsky, David Golder **** (13/04)
35. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day ***** (20/04)
36. Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie, Lost Girls **** (28/04)
37. Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince **** (30/04)
38. Olwyn M. Blouet, The Contemporary History of the Caribbean *** (02/05)
39. Meg Rosoff, Just In Case **** (03/05)
40. Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You ***1/2 (04/05)
41. Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John, **** (07/05)
42. Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb ***1/2 (08/05)
43. Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis **** (10/05)
44. Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones ****1/2 (10/05)
45. Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies ***1/2 (14/05)
46. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower **** (19/05)
47. Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker ***** (22/05)
48. Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ***** (29/05)
49. Achy Obejas, Memory Mambo **** (05/06)
50. Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven **** (06/06)
51. Andrea Levy, Small Island **** (09/06)
52. Leone Ross, All The Blood Is Red **** (11/06)
53. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express **** (17/06)
54. Oonya Kempadoo, Tide Running ***** (18/06)
55. Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms **** (26/06)
56. Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body ****1/2 (30/06)
57. Margaret Cezair-Thompson, The True History of Paradise **** (03/07)
58. Melissa P., One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed **** (05/07
59. Neil Gaiman, Death: The High Cost of Living *** (06/07)
60. Cormac McCarthy, The Road, ***** (06/07)
61. Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell, From Hell ****1/2 (07/07)
62. Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers ***1/2 (09/07)
63. Haruki Murukami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman ***** (15/07)
64. Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans ***1/2 (18/07)
65. Louise Rennison, Luuurve Is A Many Trousered Thing **** (19/07)
66. Lousie Rennison, Stop In The Name Of Pants! **** (19/07)
67. Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle ***** (24/07)
68. Various, Batman Vs Two-Face **** (27/07)
69. Eva Ibbotson, The Morning Gift ***1/2 (27/07)
70. Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever **** (29/07)
71. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey ***** (01/08)
72. Francesca Lia Block, Echo **** (02/08)
73. Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby *** (13/08)
74. Winnifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day **** (17/08)
75. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca ***** (25/08)
76. Louise Bagshawe, Career Girls * (27/08)
77. Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds *** (31/08)
78. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas ***** (08/09)
79. E.M. Forster, Maurice *** (09/09)
80. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited **** (13/09)
81. Amanda Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ***** (14/09)
82. Mary S. Lovell, The Mitford Girls *** (21/09)
83. Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen: A Life ***** (25/09)
84. Danny Wallace, Friends Like These **** (28/09)
85. Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place ***** (01/10)
86. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles **** (08/10)
87. Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book ***** (18/10)
88. Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer ***** (05/11)
89. Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest **** (28/11)
90. John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ***** (30/11)
91. Rebecca Miller, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee **** (21/12)
92. Richard Yates, Cold Spring Harbor, **** (24/12)
93. Doctor Who Annual 2009! *** (25/12)
94. Daniel Clowes, Ghost World **** (25/12)
Films
1. Hard Candy **** (11/01)
2. The Kite Runner ***** (12/01)
3. Capturing Mary **** (13/01)
4. Waitress **** (18/01)
5. The Sea Inside ***** (23/01)
6. No Country For Old Men ***** (24/01)
7. The Jane Austen Book Club *** (24/01)
8. Sweeney Todd ***** (31/01)
9. Grizzly Man *** (01/02)
10. The Great Escape ***** (02/02)
11. Everything Is Illuminated **** (08/02)
12. High School Musical 2 ***(+1 for crack) (09/02)
13. Holes **** (09/02)
14. The Even Stevens Movie **(+1 for THE BEEF ♥) (11/02)
15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants *** SHUT UP I LIKED THE COLOURS IN THE GREECE BIT (13/02)
16. Eastern Promises **** (25/02)
17. Soldier's Girl **** (25/02)
18. As You Like It ***1/2 (28/02)
19. Beowulf **** (28/02)
20. We Own The Night ***1/2 (29/02)
21. Once ***** (01/03)
22. There Will Be Blood **** (01/03)
23. Lust, Caution ***** (03/03)
24. Back To The Future Part One **** (07/03)
25. Like Minds **** (08/03)
26. I Want Candy **1/2 (08/03)
27. Young Adam **** (13/03)
26. The Other Boleyn Girl *** (14/03)
27. Remember The Titans **** (15/03)
28. Lady Jane ***1/2 (15/03)
29. Les Choristes **** (17/03)
30. 27 Dresses ***1/2 (27/03)
31. Little Children **** (03/04)
32. Howards End **** (05/04)
33. A Room with a View **** (06/04)
34. The Darjeeling Limited ***** (07/04)
35. The Manchurian Candiate (2004) **** (12/04)
36. My Beautiful Laundrette ***1/2 (12/04)
37. Son of Rambow ***** (16/04)
38. An Ideal Husband **** (19/04)
39. Napoleon Dynamite **** (19/04)
40. Maurice **** (25/04)
41. Jumper *** (01/05)
42. Charlie Wilson's War *** (02/05)
43. The Remains of the Day ***** (03/05)
44. Jesus Camp **** (19/05)
45. Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull ****1/2 (22/05)
46. Juno **** (23/05)
47. The French Lieutenant's Woman **** (28/05)
48. Be Kind Rewind ***1/2 (29/05)
49. Disturbia *** (07/06)
50. I ♥ Huckabees ***** (08/06)
51. Savage Grace **** (09/06)
52. In Bruges ***** (16/06)
53. Iron Man **** (20/06)
54. Music and Lyrics *** (25/06)
55. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ***1/2 (26/06)
56. Danny the Champion of the World ****1/2 (27/06)
57. That Thing You Do **** (27/06)
58. Penelope, **** (29/06)
59. The Edge of Love ***1/2 (30/06)
60. A Guide to Recognising Your Saints **** (01/07)
61. Joe's Palace **** (05/07)
62. Across The Universe **** (06/07)
63. Charlie Bartlett **** (07/07)
64. Saved! **** (07/07)
65. Babel ***** (10/07)
66. Wanted ****1/2 (13/07)
67. Mamma Mia! *** +1 because yay! Stellan Skarsgard (14/07)
68. Hellboy ***1/2 (15/07)
69. Ratatouille ***** (19/07)
70. WALL-E ***** (21/07)
71. The Dark Knight ***** (24/07)
72. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang ***** (25/07)
73. The Orphanage ****1/2 (30/07)
74. Shoot 'Em Up ***1/2 (03/08)
75. Lions For Lambs **** (at least 1/2 of that is for Andrew Garfield) (07/08)
76. Star Wars: The Clone Wars *1/2 (25/08)
77. Chasing Liberty *** (27/08)
78. Imagine Me & You *** (04/09)
79. Mad About Mambo **1/2 (but William Ash is luffly!) (06/09)
80. Oscar and Lucinda **** (15/09)
81. Rocknrolla **** (16/09)
82. Beautiful Thing *** (29/09)
83. Immortal Beloved ***1/2 (30/09)
84. Miss Austen Regrets ***** (01/10)
85. Summertime ***** (02/10)
86. Brideshead Revisited **** (06/10)
87. St Trinian's **** (13/10)
88. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day **** (15/10)
89. Eroica ***** (16/10)
90. Bugville *** (17/10)
91. Persepolis ****1/2 (20/10)
92. Citizen Kane ***** (22/10)
93. High School Musical 3: Senior Year **** (SHUT UP SHUT UP IT IS JOYOUS) (23/10)
94. The Lady From Shanghai **** (24/10)
95. Kiss Me Deadly **** (27/10)
96. Imitation of Life **** (31/10)
97. Quantum of Solace **** (31/10)
98. Control ***** (02/11)
99. Shadows **** (03/11)
100. Excalibur ** (03/11)
101. Speak **** (28/11)
102. Mean Streets ***** (05/12)
103. Blue Velvet **** (08/12)
104. Lost Highway ****1/2 (10/12)
105. Wild Child *** (12/12)
106. Australia ***** (26/12)
107. Richard III **** (26/12)
Plays
1. Patrick Marber, Dealer's Choice, Trafalgar Studios, London **** (3/01)
2. William Wycherly, The Country Wife, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London ***** (3/01)
3. Edward Bond, The Sea, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London **** (26/01)
4. William Shakespeare, Othello, Donmar Warehouse, London ***** (16/02)
5. Noel Coward/Kneehigh Theatre, Brief Encounter, Cinema Haymarket, London ****1/2 (26/03)
6. Harold Pinter, The Lover/The Collection, Ambassador Comedy Theatre, London **** (26/03)
7. Jean Anouhil/Christopher Fry, Ring Round The Moon, Playhouse, London ***** (28/03)
8. Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Hairspray, Shaftesbury Theatre, London ****1/2 (29/03)
9. BBC Symphony Orchestra & Philip Quast, Barbican, London **** (09/05)
10. Margaret Martin, Gone With the Wind, New London Theatre, London ***1/2 (10/05)
11. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Vanbrugh Bowl, University of York ***1/2 (04/06)
12. Aladdin, Vanbrugh Bowl, University of York, **** (14/06)
13. Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Olivier, National Theatre, London **** (09/07)
14. William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford **** (09/08)
15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky/Katie Mitchell, ...some trace of her, The Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London **** (13/09)
16. Anton Chekhov/Tom Stoppard, Ivanov, Wyndhams, London ***** (21/09)
17. Chistopher Shinn, Now or Later, Royal Court, London **** (03/10)
18. William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, The Lowry, Salford **** (15/11)
19. Sophocles/Frank McGuiness, Oedipus, The Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London **** (30/11)
20. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, The Novello, London **** (20/12)
TOTAL
94 books; 107 films; 20 plays
1. Tracy Chevalier, Girl With a Pearl Earring **** (01/01)
2. David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars **** (03/01)
3. Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves **** (04/01)
4. Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck ***** (11/01)
5. Thomas More, Utopia *** (15/01)
6. Eileen Chang, Lust, Caution **** (15/01)
7. Graham Greene, The End of the Affair ***** (19/01)
-- Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn: ABANDONED due to crapness, may resume later
8. Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace **** (30/01)
9. Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty ***** (31/01)
10. Libba Bray, Rebel Angels **** (04/02)
11. Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise ***** (11/02)
12. Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing ***** (13/02)
13. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine Part One *** (16/02)
14. William Shakespeare, Henry V ***** (18/02)
15. Holly Black, Tithe **** (22/02)
16. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, *** (25/02)
17. Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now ***** (29/02)
18. Christopher Marlowe, Hero & Leander **** (03/03)
19. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ***** (03/03)
20. Laura Esquivel, Like Water For Chocolate *** (04/03)
21. Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road ****1/2 (10/03)
22. Ben Jonson, Volpone *** (11/03)
23. Meg Rosoff, What I Was **** (13/03)
-- BONUS FEATURE! 1099 installments of Questionable Content *****
24. Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together **** (17/03)
25. Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants ***1/2 (26/03)
26. Susan Cooper, King of Shadows **** (28/03)
27. Cecil Castellucci & Jim Rugg, The Plain Janes *** (29/03)
28. Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip ***** (29/03)
29. David Levithan & Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ***** (30/03)
30. Graham Greene, Our Man In Havana **** (02/04)
31. Haruki Murukami, Norwegian Wood, ***1/2 (03/04)
32. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep ***** (07/04)
33. E.M. Forster, A Room with a View ***** (12/04)
34. Irene Nemirovsky, David Golder **** (13/04)
35. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day ***** (20/04)
36. Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie, Lost Girls **** (28/04)
37. Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince **** (30/04)
38. Olwyn M. Blouet, The Contemporary History of the Caribbean *** (02/05)
39. Meg Rosoff, Just In Case **** (03/05)
40. Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You ***1/2 (04/05)
41. Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John, **** (07/05)
42. Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb ***1/2 (08/05)
43. Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis **** (10/05)
44. Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones ****1/2 (10/05)
45. Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies ***1/2 (14/05)
46. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower **** (19/05)
47. Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker ***** (22/05)
48. Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ***** (29/05)
49. Achy Obejas, Memory Mambo **** (05/06)
50. Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven **** (06/06)
51. Andrea Levy, Small Island **** (09/06)
52. Leone Ross, All The Blood Is Red **** (11/06)
53. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express **** (17/06)
54. Oonya Kempadoo, Tide Running ***** (18/06)
55. Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms **** (26/06)
56. Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body ****1/2 (30/06)
57. Margaret Cezair-Thompson, The True History of Paradise **** (03/07)
58. Melissa P., One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed **** (05/07
59. Neil Gaiman, Death: The High Cost of Living *** (06/07)
60. Cormac McCarthy, The Road, ***** (06/07)
61. Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell, From Hell ****1/2 (07/07)
62. Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers ***1/2 (09/07)
63. Haruki Murukami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman ***** (15/07)
64. Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans ***1/2 (18/07)
65. Louise Rennison, Luuurve Is A Many Trousered Thing **** (19/07)
66. Lousie Rennison, Stop In The Name Of Pants! **** (19/07)
67. Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle ***** (24/07)
68. Various, Batman Vs Two-Face **** (27/07)
69. Eva Ibbotson, The Morning Gift ***1/2 (27/07)
70. Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever **** (29/07)
71. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey ***** (01/08)
72. Francesca Lia Block, Echo **** (02/08)
73. Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby *** (13/08)
74. Winnifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day **** (17/08)
75. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca ***** (25/08)
76. Louise Bagshawe, Career Girls * (27/08)
77. Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds *** (31/08)
78. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas ***** (08/09)
79. E.M. Forster, Maurice *** (09/09)
80. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited **** (13/09)
81. Amanda Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ***** (14/09)
82. Mary S. Lovell, The Mitford Girls *** (21/09)
83. Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen: A Life ***** (25/09)
84. Danny Wallace, Friends Like These **** (28/09)
85. Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place ***** (01/10)
86. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles **** (08/10)
87. Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book ***** (18/10)
88. Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer ***** (05/11)
89. Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest **** (28/11)
90. John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ***** (30/11)
91. Rebecca Miller, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee **** (21/12)
92. Richard Yates, Cold Spring Harbor, **** (24/12)
93. Doctor Who Annual 2009! *** (25/12)
94. Daniel Clowes, Ghost World **** (25/12)
Films
1. Hard Candy **** (11/01)
2. The Kite Runner ***** (12/01)
3. Capturing Mary **** (13/01)
4. Waitress **** (18/01)
5. The Sea Inside ***** (23/01)
6. No Country For Old Men ***** (24/01)
7. The Jane Austen Book Club *** (24/01)
8. Sweeney Todd ***** (31/01)
9. Grizzly Man *** (01/02)
10. The Great Escape ***** (02/02)
11. Everything Is Illuminated **** (08/02)
12. High School Musical 2 ***(+1 for crack) (09/02)
13. Holes **** (09/02)
14. The Even Stevens Movie **(+1 for THE BEEF ♥) (11/02)
15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants *** SHUT UP I LIKED THE COLOURS IN THE GREECE BIT (13/02)
16. Eastern Promises **** (25/02)
17. Soldier's Girl **** (25/02)
18. As You Like It ***1/2 (28/02)
19. Beowulf **** (28/02)
20. We Own The Night ***1/2 (29/02)
21. Once ***** (01/03)
22. There Will Be Blood **** (01/03)
23. Lust, Caution ***** (03/03)
24. Back To The Future Part One **** (07/03)
25. Like Minds **** (08/03)
26. I Want Candy **1/2 (08/03)
27. Young Adam **** (13/03)
26. The Other Boleyn Girl *** (14/03)
27. Remember The Titans **** (15/03)
28. Lady Jane ***1/2 (15/03)
29. Les Choristes **** (17/03)
30. 27 Dresses ***1/2 (27/03)
31. Little Children **** (03/04)
32. Howards End **** (05/04)
33. A Room with a View **** (06/04)
34. The Darjeeling Limited ***** (07/04)
35. The Manchurian Candiate (2004) **** (12/04)
36. My Beautiful Laundrette ***1/2 (12/04)
37. Son of Rambow ***** (16/04)
38. An Ideal Husband **** (19/04)
39. Napoleon Dynamite **** (19/04)
40. Maurice **** (25/04)
41. Jumper *** (01/05)
42. Charlie Wilson's War *** (02/05)
43. The Remains of the Day ***** (03/05)
44. Jesus Camp **** (19/05)
45. Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull ****1/2 (22/05)
46. Juno **** (23/05)
47. The French Lieutenant's Woman **** (28/05)
48. Be Kind Rewind ***1/2 (29/05)
49. Disturbia *** (07/06)
50. I ♥ Huckabees ***** (08/06)
51. Savage Grace **** (09/06)
52. In Bruges ***** (16/06)
53. Iron Man **** (20/06)
54. Music and Lyrics *** (25/06)
55. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ***1/2 (26/06)
56. Danny the Champion of the World ****1/2 (27/06)
57. That Thing You Do **** (27/06)
58. Penelope, **** (29/06)
59. The Edge of Love ***1/2 (30/06)
60. A Guide to Recognising Your Saints **** (01/07)
61. Joe's Palace **** (05/07)
62. Across The Universe **** (06/07)
63. Charlie Bartlett **** (07/07)
64. Saved! **** (07/07)
65. Babel ***** (10/07)
66. Wanted ****1/2 (13/07)
67. Mamma Mia! *** +1 because yay! Stellan Skarsgard (14/07)
68. Hellboy ***1/2 (15/07)
69. Ratatouille ***** (19/07)
70. WALL-E ***** (21/07)
71. The Dark Knight ***** (24/07)
72. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang ***** (25/07)
73. The Orphanage ****1/2 (30/07)
74. Shoot 'Em Up ***1/2 (03/08)
75. Lions For Lambs **** (at least 1/2 of that is for Andrew Garfield) (07/08)
76. Star Wars: The Clone Wars *1/2 (25/08)
77. Chasing Liberty *** (27/08)
78. Imagine Me & You *** (04/09)
79. Mad About Mambo **1/2 (but William Ash is luffly!) (06/09)
80. Oscar and Lucinda **** (15/09)
81. Rocknrolla **** (16/09)
82. Beautiful Thing *** (29/09)
83. Immortal Beloved ***1/2 (30/09)
84. Miss Austen Regrets ***** (01/10)
85. Summertime ***** (02/10)
86. Brideshead Revisited **** (06/10)
87. St Trinian's **** (13/10)
88. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day **** (15/10)
89. Eroica ***** (16/10)
90. Bugville *** (17/10)
91. Persepolis ****1/2 (20/10)
92. Citizen Kane ***** (22/10)
93. High School Musical 3: Senior Year **** (SHUT UP SHUT UP IT IS JOYOUS) (23/10)
94. The Lady From Shanghai **** (24/10)
95. Kiss Me Deadly **** (27/10)
96. Imitation of Life **** (31/10)
97. Quantum of Solace **** (31/10)
98. Control ***** (02/11)
99. Shadows **** (03/11)
100. Excalibur ** (03/11)
101. Speak **** (28/11)
102. Mean Streets ***** (05/12)
103. Blue Velvet **** (08/12)
104. Lost Highway ****1/2 (10/12)
105. Wild Child *** (12/12)
106. Australia ***** (26/12)
107. Richard III **** (26/12)
Plays
1. Patrick Marber, Dealer's Choice, Trafalgar Studios, London **** (3/01)
2. William Wycherly, The Country Wife, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London ***** (3/01)
3. Edward Bond, The Sea, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London **** (26/01)
4. William Shakespeare, Othello, Donmar Warehouse, London ***** (16/02)
5. Noel Coward/Kneehigh Theatre, Brief Encounter, Cinema Haymarket, London ****1/2 (26/03)
6. Harold Pinter, The Lover/The Collection, Ambassador Comedy Theatre, London **** (26/03)
7. Jean Anouhil/Christopher Fry, Ring Round The Moon, Playhouse, London ***** (28/03)
8. Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Hairspray, Shaftesbury Theatre, London ****1/2 (29/03)
9. BBC Symphony Orchestra & Philip Quast, Barbican, London **** (09/05)
10. Margaret Martin, Gone With the Wind, New London Theatre, London ***1/2 (10/05)
11. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Vanbrugh Bowl, University of York ***1/2 (04/06)
12. Aladdin, Vanbrugh Bowl, University of York, **** (14/06)
13. Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Olivier, National Theatre, London **** (09/07)
14. William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford **** (09/08)
15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky/Katie Mitchell, ...some trace of her, The Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London **** (13/09)
16. Anton Chekhov/Tom Stoppard, Ivanov, Wyndhams, London ***** (21/09)
17. Chistopher Shinn, Now or Later, Royal Court, London **** (03/10)
18. William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, The Lowry, Salford **** (15/11)
19. Sophocles/Frank McGuiness, Oedipus, The Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London **** (30/11)
20. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, The Novello, London **** (20/12)
TOTAL
94 books; 107 films; 20 plays
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