2011 List

I've decided to keep up the Daily Shill by continuing to review all of the movies promoted within the interviews on The Daily Show. (Plus, I may review some of the books, TV shows, and albums too, you never know.) So, now that I've made that decision, it's time to start up a new list. Everything on the list is a film unless otherwise marked.

January

1/3: Barney's Version

1/11: The King's Speech

1/13: The Dilemma

1/25: 127 Hours

February

2/15: Unknown

March

3/9: Battle: Los Angeles

3/30: Source Code

April

4/5: When Harry Met Sally 2 (Funny or Die)

4/13: Rio: The Movie

4/14: Talking Funny (TV Special)

May

5/9: Last Night

5/10: Everything Must Go

The List

Welcome to The List, where I keep track of my progress. As you can probably figure out for yourself, titles with a strikethrough are ones I've finished. You can click any finished title to link to the review.

Also, thanks to my pal Caroline for suggesting this!

January

1/4: Food Rules: An Eater's Manuel by Michael Pollan (Book)

1/5: George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success by Alex Ben Block and Lucy Autrey Wilson (Book)

1/7: Crazy Heart (Film)

1/11: Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush by John Yoo (Book)...not entirely finished, but crossed off nonetheless

1/12: Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster by Paul Ingrassia (Book)

1/13: Y Not by Ringo Starr (Album)

1/18: Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility by David Walker (Book)

1/19: A Single Man (Film)

1/20: Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street by Jim Wallis (Book)

1/21: Tooth Fairy (Film)

1/27: Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters (Book)

February

2/3: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande (Book)

2/8: Staying True by Jenny Sanford (Book)

2/9: To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George WAshington and the Fight for American Freedom by Newt Gingrich (Book)

2/10: Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James S. Hirsch (Book)

2/11: Precious (Film)

2/22: The Ricky Gervais Show (TV)

2/23: My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World by Jeff Garlin (Book)

2/24: Cop Out (Film)

March

3/1: The Pluto Files (TV)

3/2: Remember Me (Film)

3/3: Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest Hour by Lynne Olson (Book)

3/4: The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson (Book)

3/8: No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos (Book)

3/9: Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama is Inviting the Next Attack by Marc Thiessen (Book)

3/10: The Marriage Ref (TV)

3/11: Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage by Eamon Javers (Book)

3/15: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (Book)

3/16: Repo Men (Film)

3/17: More Malice by Snoop Dogg (Album & DVD)

3/29: Greenberg (Film)

3/30: Weapons of Self-Destruction by Robin Williams (DVD)

3/31: Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran by Roxana Saberi (Book)

April

4/5: Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religion Extremism in the Age of Globalization by Reza Aslan (Book)

4/6: A Captains Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips (Book)

4/7: Date Night (Film)

4/8: The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick (Book)

4/12: Breaking Bad (TV)

4/13: The McVeigh Tapes (TV)

4/15: Death at a Funeral (Film)

4/20: A New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending, and More Taxes by John O'Hara (Book)

4/21: The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet's Surprising Future by Fred Pearce (Book)

4/22: Losers (Film)

4/27: The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Richard Whittle (Book)

4/28: The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build and Imperial Presidency by Ken Blackwell (Book)

May

5/3: Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster by Jonathan Eig (Book)

5/4: Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis by Rosalyn Carter (Book)

5/5: Need to Know (TV)

5/6: Molto Gusto: Easy Italian Cooking by Mario Batali (Book)

5/10: Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rackove (Book)

5/11: War by Sebastian Junger (Book)

5/12: Sex and the City 2 (Film)

5/13: The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations by Ian Bremmer (Book)

June

6/1: The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future by Arthur C. Brooks (Book)

6/2: Through the Wormhole (TV)

6/3: Get Him to the Greek (Movie)
6/7: Cyrus (Film)

6/8: Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens (Book)

6/9: Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization by Spencer Wells (Book)

6/14: Hot in Cleveland (TV)

6/15: Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James Tabor (Book)

6/16: Louie (TV)

6/17: Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances by Fred Thompson (Book)

6/21: Gasland (TV)

6/22: Knight and Day (Film)

6/23: The White House Doctor: My Patients Were Presidents- A Memoir by Connie Mariano (Book)

6/24: Grownups (Film)

6/29: Love Ranch (Film)

July

7/1: Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban by Jere Van Dyk (Book)

7/5: Rescue Me (TV)

7/6: The Kids are All Right (Film)

7/7: Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent (Book)

7/8: Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self by Marilynne Robinson

7/26: The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen (Book)

7/27: Fareed Zakaria GPS (TV)

7/28: The Ghost of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic by Robert O'Connell (Book)

7/29: Salt (Film)

August

8/2: Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach (Book)

8/3: The Other Guys (Film)

8/4: Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War by Bruce Henderson (Book)

8/5: Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam by Akbar Ahmed (Book)

8/10: The Switch (Film)

8/11: The Big C (TV)

8/12: The Suburbs by Arcade Fire (Album)

8/16: Nanny McPhee Returns (Film)

8/17: Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto by Dick Armey (Book)

8/18: Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward Kohn (Book)

8/19: The Switch (Film)

8/24: Hurricane Katrina: the First Five Days (TV)

8/25: Going the Distance (Film)

September

9/7: Gunn's Golden Rules by Tim Gunn (Book)

9/9: Dirty Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain (Book)

9/13: The Town (Film)

9/14: A Journey: My Political Life by Tony Blair (Book)

9/15: The Town (Film)

9/20: White House Diary by Jimmy Carter (Book)

9/21: You Again (Film)

9/22: Stone (Film)

9/27: Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama by Bill O'Reilly (Book)

9/28: Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington (Book)

9/29: The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? by Linda Polman (Book)

9/30: The Social Network (Film)

October

10/2: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris (Book)

10/3: Red (Film)

10/4: There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray (Book)

10/5: Fair Game (Film)

10/11: Jackass 3D (Film)

10/12: Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders by Erica Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy (Book)

10/13: Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me by Condoleezza Rice (Book)

10/14: Half Empty by David Rakoff (Book)

November

11/1: Due Date (Film)

11/4: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Beastiary by David Sederis (Book)

11/8: Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington by Rick Perry (Book)

11/9: Morning Glory (Film)

11/10: Countdown to Lockdown: A Hardcore Journal by Mick Foley (Book)

11/11: Unstoppable (Film)

11/15: On the Right Track: From Olympic Downfall to Finding Forgiveness and the Strength to Overcome and Succeed by Marion Jones (Book)

11/16: All Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera (Book)

11/17: Decoded by Jay-Z (Book)

11/18: Life Without Lawyers: Restoring Responsibility in America by Philip K. Howard

11/29: How to Beat up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion by Judah Friedlander (Book)

11/30: The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey

December

12/1: Live in Berlin by Sting (Album)

12/2: Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (Book)

12/6: Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Gen. Hugh Shelton (Book)

12/7: Robot Chicken Star Wars III (TV)

12/8: Blue Valentine (Film)

12/9: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (Book)

12/13: Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization by Gordon Brown (Book)

12/14: Ricky Gervais: Out of England II (TV)

12/15: How Do You Know (Film)

12/16: Can't Wait Till Christmas by Mike Huckabee (Book)