End of the year - Fandom picspam/masterlist

[birdienl]

It's becoming a bit of a tradition (you can call something a tradition when you're doing it for the fourth time right?) to post a fandom picspam/masterlist of everything I watched and read at the end of the year (or the beginning of the next...) In the lists I've linked to reviews and posts I wrote about various movies, books and tv-shows. If you're interested in anything which I haven't reviewed, don't hesitate to ask!

Movies



Movies I watched in 2013: Anna Karenina / Le delicatesse / The best of men / Pitch perfect / Life of Pi / Meet Bill / Les Miserables / Bert and Dickie / Secret life of bees / The guardian / Bonneville / Bright Star / In time / The fighting temptations / Robin Hood / Welcome to the Rileys / Gulliver's travels / Midnight in Paris / Nick and Norah's infinite playlist / City island / Jumper / Charlotte's web / The descendants / The last station / The other Boleyn girl / My sister's keeper / Wild child / Never let me go / The constant gardener / Alice in Wonderland / My super ex-girlfriend / Iron Man III / Magic of ordinary days / Flyboys / Pope Joan / Cinderella Man / Eragon / In Bruges / Eat, Pray, Love / Glorious 39 / Silk / Defiance / Spiderwick chronicles / The old curiosity shop / Water for elephants / Jackie / Once / Ruby Sparks / Sisters of war / Prom / The big wedding / Sisterhood of the travelling pants / Dreamer / Ladies in lavender / Home of the brave / Marie Antoinette / Conversations with other women / Duplicity / George and the dragon / How do you know / Poseidon / Where the wild things are / The conspirator / Thor 2: The dark world / An adventure in time and space / Tuck everlasting / Mirror mirror / Princess of thieves / Vanity fair / Management / Baby mamma / Christmas with Holly / On a clear day / Nativity 2: danger in the manger / A Christmas carol / The Christmas card / The Hunger Games: catching fire / The other woman

Links are to reviews or other posts written about these movies

Books



Books I've read in 2013: The lightkeeper's bride – Colleen Coble / The taste of sorrow – Jude Morgan / Eight cousins & Rose in bloom – Louisa May Alcott / A tailor-made bride – Karen Witemeyer / Love’s pursuit & A constant heart – Siri Mitchell / The Young James Herriot – John Lewis-Stemple / Winter Garden & Night road – Kristin Hannah / Her mother’s hope & Her daughter's dream – Francine Rivers / Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (reread) / Acting Up – Melissa Nathan / Colonel Brandon’s Diary – Amanda Grange / In hoger sferen – Reinier van den Berg / Bees in the butterfly garden – Maureen Lang / Georgiana Darcy’s Diary – Anna Elliot / Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien (reread) / The silent governess & The maid of Fairborne Hall – Julie Klassen / God and Charles Dickens – Gary L. Colledge / Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell / Garden Spells – Sarah Addison Allen / Waiting for Summer’s return & A hopeful heart - Kim Vogel Sawyer / Jane Austen made me do it - Laurel Ann Natress and others / Crusade in jeans & Geef me de ruimte! – Thea Beckman / A distant melody & On distant shores – Sarah Sundin / Eat, pray, love – Elizabeth Gilbert / The master of Bruges – Terence Morgan / Forsaken Dreams – Mary Lu Tyndall / If the shoe fits – Sandra D. Bricker / The Old Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens / Elves of Zeoch: the last two – Kaden Hurley / The lemon orchard – Luanne Rice / The woman who died a lot – Jasper Fforde / Glamorous Illusions & Glittering promises & Grave consequences – Lisa T. Bergren / Het recht op terugkeer – Leon de Winter / Beeldenstormers en bruggenbouwers: canon van de Nederlandse religiegeschiedenis – Willem van der Meiden /The bookstore – Deborah Meyler / The wishing thread – Lisa van Allen / The colonel's lady & The frontierman's daughter – Laura Frantz / By the light of the silvery moon – Tricia Goyer / Felix Holt the radical – George Eliot / Unending devotion – Jody Hedlund / Made to last – Melissa Tagg / Promise to return – Elizabeth Byler Younts / Cinder & Scarlett – Marissa Meyer / Geek girls don’t date dukes – Gina Lamm / Firmin – Sam Savage / Lady Catherine, the earl and the real Downton Abbey – Countess of Carnarvon / Tiger Bay blues – Catrin Collier / Blackmoore – Julianne Donaldson / An honest heart – Kaye Dacus / Promise me this – Cathy Gohlke / Het betoverde land achter het filmdoek – Bart Cusveller (red.) / Widow of Gettysburg – Jocelyn Green / Heroic measures – Jo-Ann Power / Fauna – Alissa York / The way home – Cindy Gerard / A Darcy Christmas – Amanda Grange, Sharon Lathan, Carolyn Eberthart / Miracle on Regent Street – Ali Harris / Miracle in the Museum of Broken Hearts – Talli Roland

Links are to reviews or other posts written about these movies

TV-shows

TV-shows I've watched during 2013: Labyrinth / Wartime Farm / Bletchley Circle / Call the Midwife series 2 / Downton Abbey series 4 / World without end / Spies of Warsaw / Dancing on the edge / Lilies / Love in a cold climate / The village / Berkeley Square / The white queen / The Cazalets / Death comes to Pemberley / Inspector Lewis series 7 / Mr Selfridge / The Good Wife season 4 / Once upon a Time season 2 / Grey's Anatomy season 9 / Doctor Who series 7 / Foyle's War series 8 / Elementary season 1 / Primeval series 1-3

Links are to reviews or other posts written about these movies

Posts of previous years: 2012 - 2011 - 2010

Comments

[florencia7.livejournal.com]

OH This is VERY impressive! It's so awesome that you've got to read & see so many things in 2013 :)

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm quite glad about all I read and saw last year as well!

[msantimacassar.livejournal.com]

You've been very busy this year! :)

I've been meaning to try out Bletchley Circle, glad to hear you thought it was good! And you watched Dancing on the Edge too? What did you think of it?

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I guess so! I was actually surprised looking back how much I watched. I already knew I read more than last few years (thanks to my Kindle app!), but it didn't felt as if I spent much more time watching movies etc.

Anyway, Dancing on the edge is very good. Beautifully made, great acting performances, great story. But, it also had a very strange atmosphere. There was always a dark undercurrent in the story, even when everything seemed to be going well, even at the most relaxed moments. Apparently this is something the director Poliakoff does, because I also felt this (even stronger) with his movie Glorious 39. Next to this, somehow you never know about the characters in Dancing on the edge. Do they really mean what they say? Do they have hidden motives? So yes, definitely worth a look, but something that will not let go of you very easily!

[msantimacassar.livejournal.com]

I watched the first two or so episodes of Dancing on the Edge, but was a bit turned off by the weird atmosphere and the slow pace. Sounds like I need to give it another try! :)

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

What did you think of Midnight in Paris and Never Let Me Go?

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Midnight in Paris was a really nice movie. I never thought I would enjoy a movie by Woody Allen and a movie with the main character played by Owen Wilson that much, but it was a charming and sweet story and just all-round well-made.

Never Let Me Go was also very well-made with great acting from Carey Mulligan (as can be expected...) and Keira Knightley. The subject matter is very heavy though, which makes the movie rather bleak.

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

I <3333 Midnight Paris. Agreed that it's a bit different than one would expect from Woody Allen and/or Owen Wilson, haha!