Category Archives: Movies

Duff at the Movies 2013

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Duff

• 12 Years a Slave (12/30)
  
• Inside Llewyn Davis (12/29)
  
• American Hustle (12/27)
  
• Philomena (12/27)
  
• Out of The Furnace (12/24)
  
• Thor 2 (11/30)
  
• Catching Fire (11/29)
  
• Gravity (11/28)
  
• Dallas Buyers Club (11/16)
  
• The Heat (10/?)
  
• The Grandmaster (9/7)
  
• The Way, Way Back (9/1)
  
• Fruitvale Station (8/24)
  
• Spectacular Now (8/21)
  
• Elysium (8/17)
  
• Now You See Me (7/?)
  
• Frances Ha (7/4)
  
• Byzantium (6/29)
  
• Fast & Furious 6 (6/24)
  
• World War Z (6/22)
  
• Much Ado About Nothing (6/21)
  
• Mud (6/7)
  
• What Maisie Knew (6/2)
  
• Star Trek: Into Darkness (6/1)
  
• The Place Beyond the Pines (5/11)
  
• Upstream Color (4/13)
  
• Room 237 (4/6)
  
• Side Effects (3/9)
  
• Zero Dark Thirty (1/5)
  
• Flight (1/3)
  

Duff at the Movies 2012

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Duff

• Django Unchained (12/31)
  
• Silver Linings Playbook (12/26)
  
• Anna Karenina (11/22)
  
• Skyfall (Bond) (11/10)
  
• Arbitrage (10/27)
  
• Argo (10/20)
  
• To Rome with Love (9/17)
  
• Looper (9/10)
  
• Magic Mike (9/9)
  
• Killer Joe (9/8)
  
• The Bourne Legacy (9/7)
  
• Celeste and Jesse Forever (8/18)
  
• The Dark Knight Rises (Batman) (7/27)
  
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (7/20)
  
• People Like Us (7/6)
  
• Moonrise Kingdom (6/29)
  
• Rock of Ages (6/20?)
  
• Prometheus (6/16)
  
• Snow White & the Huntsman (6/2)
  
• Battleship (5/26)
  
• The Avengers (5/22)
  
• Dark Shadows (5/11)
  
• Cabin in the Woods (4/28?)
  
• Hunger Games (3/24)
  
• Friends with Kids (3/14)
  
• Margaret (2/22)
  
• A Separation (2/4)
  
• Carnage (1/22)
  
• The Artist (1/18)
  
• Hugo (3D) (1/15)
  
• Contraband (1/13)
  
• Pariah (1/9)
  
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1/8)
  
• The Descendants (1/7)
  

Duff at the Movies 2011

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Duff

• Young Adult (12/26)
  
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (12/23)
  
• Martha Marcy May Marlene (11/26)
  
• Take Shelter (10/22)
  
• Haunters (10/15)
  
• Our Idiot Brother (9/4)
  
• The Guard (8/5)
  
• Cowboys & Aliens (8/3)
  
• Harry Potter 8: Deathly Hallows 2 (7/24)
  
• Super 8 (7/6)
  
• Buck (7/4)
  
• Beginners (6/22)
  
• Hanna (6/9)
  
• Midnight in Paris (6/5)
  
• Tree of Life (6/4)
  
• Incendies (en français) (5/26)
  
• Thor (5/25)
  
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D)(5/13)
  
• Hesher (5/11)
  
• Bridesmaids (5/10)
  
• Certified Copy (4/?)
  
• Red State (3/8)
  
• Cedar Rapids (3/6)
  
• No Strings Attached (2/20)
  
• The Company Men (2/6)
  
• The Mechanic (2/4)
  
• The Tourist (1/16)
  
• Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (1/11)
  
• Blue Valentine (1/7)
  
• The King’s Speech (1/6)
  
• The Fighter (1/5)
  
• The Green Hornet (3D) (1/4)
  
• Black Swan (1/2)
  
• True Grit (1/2)
  
• Somewhere (1/1)
  

Duff at the Movies 2010

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Duff

• Rare Exports (Finnish) (12/14)
  
• Fair Game (12/3)
  
• Unstoppable (11/27)
  
• The Town (9/18)
  
• The American (8/10)
  
• Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (en français) (9/8)
  
• Mesrine: Killer Instinct (en français) (9/5)
  
• Salt (8/14)
  
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (8/9)
  
• The Kids Are Allright (8/6)
  
• Knight & Day (7/25)
  
• Inception (7/24)
  
• Winter’s Bone (7/5)
  
• Robin Hood (5/30)
  
• Iron Man 2 (5/13)
  
• Clash of the Titans (5/1)
  
• Kick Ass (4/23)
  
• The Ghost Writer (4/12)
  
• Cop Out (3/21)
  
• A Single Man (2/12)
  
• Sherlock Holmes (1/15)
  
• Daybreakers (1/4)
  

Duff at the Movies 2009

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Duff

• An Education (12/27)
  
• Crazy Heart (12/26)
  
• The Young Victoria (12/24)
  
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox (12/23)
  
• Avatar (12/18)
  
• New Moon (12/15)
  
• Up in the Air (12/3)
  
• Zombieland (10/25)
  
• Fish Tank (Chicago Film Festival) (10/15)
  
• Girls on the Wall (documentary) (Chicago Film Festival) (10/11)
  
• Love and Savagery (Chicago Film Festival) (10/10)
  
• SPY(IES) (ESPION(S) en francais) (Chicago Film Festival) (10/10)
  
• Whip It! (10/3)
  
• Inglourious Basterds (8/23)
  
• Thirst (8/22)
  
• Julie & Julia (8/19)
  
• District 9 (8/12)
  
• Ponyo (the whole thing this time!) (8/10)
  
• Ponyo (first 1.5 hrs.) (8/6)
  
• Paper Heart (7/16)
  
• Hurt Locker (7/15)
  
• 500 Days of Summer (7/7)
  
• Public Enemies (7/4)
  
• Hump Day (6/29)
  
• Moon (6/15)
  
• Away We Go (6/4)
  
• State of Play (5/24)
  
• Terminator: Salvation (5/23)
  
• Star Trek (5/11)
  
• Gigantic (4/10)
  
• Sunshine Cleaning (4/4)
  
• Gran Torino (4/2)
  
• Duplicity (3/22)
  
• Push (3/14)
  
• The Reader (3/4)
  
• The Class (en francais: Entre Les Murs) (2/28)
  
• The Wrestler (2/1)
  
• Coraline (1/15)
  
• Slumdog Millionaire (1/2)
  

Duff at the Movies 2008

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Duff

• Bolt! (12/28)
  
• Milk (11/28)
  
• Quantum of Solace (11/15)
  
• Expresso Bongo (11/8) (1959)
  
• Terribly Happy (Chicago Film Festival)(10/26)(Danish)
  
• Snow (Chicago FIlm Festival)(10/25)(Bosnian)
  
• Julia (Chicago Film Festival)(10/24)
  
• Country Wedding (Chicago Film Festival)(10/24)(Icelandic)
  
• The Girl by the Lake (Chicago Film Festival)(10/23) (Italian)
  
• Two Lovers (Chicago Film Festival)(10/22)
  
• Zach and Miri Make a Porno (Chicago Film Festival)(10/21)
  
• Everlasting Moments (Chicago Film Festival)(10/21) (Swedish)
  
• North Starr (Chicago Film Festival)(10/19)
  
• Hunger (Chicago Film Festival)(10/19)
  
• Surveillance (Chicago Film Festival)(10/18)
  
• Sparrow (Chicago Film Festival)(10/18) (Chinese)
  
• Let the Right One In (Chicago Film Festival)(10/17) (Swedish)
  
• Wendy & Lucy (Chicago Film Festival)(10/17)
  
• The Pleasure of Being Robbed (Chicago Film Festival) (10/17)
  
• The Duchess (10/16)
  
• Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (10/5)
  
• Burn After Reading (9/27)
  
• Tropic Thunder (9/21)
  
• Wall-E (8/9)
  
• The Dark Knight (7/22)
  
• Wanted (6/29)
  
• The Fall (6/14)
  
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (6/8)
  
• Sex and the City (5/31)
  
• Redbelt (5/25)
  
• Iron Man (5/20)
  
• Made of Honor (5/4)
  
• Leatherheads (4/24)
  
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (4/12)
  
• Be Kind, Rewind (3/2)
  
• Vantage Point (2/24)
  
• Cloverfield (2/18)
  
• There Will Be Blood (2/10)
  
• Beowulf (IMAX) (1/9)
  
• Atonement (1/1)
  

Duff at the Movies 2007

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Duff

• The Painted Veil (1/1)
  
• Deja Vu (1/6)
  
• Children of Men (1/13)
  
• Pan’s Labyrinth (1/19) – spanish
  
• Dreamgirls (1/20)
  
• Inland Empire (1/27)
  
• Catch and Release (2/3)
  
• Music and Lyrics (2/18)
  
• Blood Diamond (2/27)
  
• The Lives of Others (3/8) – german
  
• Zodiac (3/15)
  
• The Last King of Scotland (3/19)
  
• A Shot in the Dark (3/22) – portuguese
  
• The Lookout (4/1)
  
• Grindhouse (5/2)
  
• Away from Her (5/17)
  
• Waitress (5/22)
  
• Paris Je T’Aime (6/1)
  
• Hot Fuzz (6/3)
  
• Knocked Up (6/9)
  
• Helvetica (6/16)
  
• Once (6/23)
  
• A Mighty Heart (6/29)
  
• 28 Weeks Later (7/1)
  
• Pirates 3 (7/3)
  
• Oceans 13 (7/3)
  
• La Vie en Rose (7/4) – francais
  
• Evening (7/5)
  
• Sunshine (7/22)
  
• Stardust (8/26)
  
• The Bourne Ultimatum (9/2)
  
• Transformers (9/2)
  
• 3:10 to Yuma (9/8)
  
• In the Valley of Elah (9/16)
  
• The Kingdom (9/29)
  
• Eastern Promises (9/29)
  
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (10/5)
  
• The Walker (10/6 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Blackout (10/7 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Silent Light (10/9 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Surveillance (10/10 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Jump! (10/12 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• We Own the Night (10/14)
  
• Control (10/16 – Chicago Film Festival)
  
• Michael Clayton (10/19)
  
• Punishment Park (11/7 – 1970s, dir by Peter Watkins)
  
• Walkabout (11/8 – 1970s, dir by Nicolas Roeg)
  
• American Gangster (11/11)
  
• Gone Baby Gone (11/20)
  
• No Country for Old Men (11/21)
  
• I’m Not There (11/23)
  
• Margot at the Wedding (11/25)
  
• Dan in Real Life (12/1)
  
• I Am Legend (12/15)
  
• Juno (12/18)
  
• Charlie Wilson’s War (12/27)
  
• Sweeney Todd (12/30)
  

Duff at the Movies 2006

Posted on December 31, 2006 by Duff

• Casanova
  
• Match Point
  
• Tristan and Isolde
  
• Something New
  
• Syriana
  
• V for Vendetta
  
• 16 Blocks
  
• Munich
  
• Inside Man
  
• Thank You for Smoking
  
• The DaVinci Code
  
• Mission Impossible 3
  
• An Inconvenient Truth
  
• The Lakehouse
  
• Prairie Home Companion
  
• The Devil Wears Prada
  
• A Scanner Darkly
  
• Clerks 2
  
• Scoop
  
• Little Miss Sunshine
  
• Conversations with Other Women
  
• Last Kiss
  
• The Illusionist
  
• The Black Dahlia
  
• The Departed
  
• The Queen
  
• Marie Antoinette
  
• The Prestige
  
• Casino Royale
  
• Come Early Morning
  
• Bobby
  
• The Holiday
  
• The Good German
  
• The Good Shepherd

Duff at the Movies 2005

Posted on December 31, 2005 by Duff

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• The Aviator
  
• Hotel Rwanda
  
• Million Dollar Baby
  
• A Very Long Engagement (français)
  
• In Good Company
  
• Phantom of the Opera
  
• Constantine
  
• Sin City
  
• Comme un Image (français – called “Look at Me” en anglais)
  
• Masculin/Feminin (français) (rerelease)
  
• The Interpreter
  
• Fever Pitch
  
• Unleashed
  
• Crash
  
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
  
• Layer Cake
  
• Batman Begins
  
• Fantastic Four
  
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  
• Wedding Crashers
  
• March of the Penguins
  
• The 40-Year-Old Virgin
  
• Serenity (!!!)
  
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
  
• Capote
  
• The History of Violence
  
• Walk the Line
  
• Pride & Prejudice
  
• Jesus Loves Magic: Sarah Silverman
  
• Brokeback Mountain
  
• King Kong

Duff at the Movies 2004

Posted on December 31, 2004 by Duff

• The Company
  
• Mona Lisa Smile
  
• The Girl with the Pearl Earring
  
• Big Fish
  
• The Big Bounce
  
• Mystic River
  
• Starsky & Hutch
  
• Jersey Girl
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  
• The Ladykillers
  
• Kill Bill Vol. 2
  
• Troy (en Francais)
  
• Coffee & Cigarettes (en Francais)
  
• Raising Helen
  
• I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
  
• The Village
  
• Garden State
  
• (very loosely based on) The Bourne Supremacy
  
• Collateral
  
• Hero
  
• Ladder 49
  
• The Motorcycle Diaries
  
• I Heart Huckabees
  
• The Incredibles
  
• Finding Neverland
  
• Closer
  
• Sideways