Here’s my review of Shame, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey (Blink!) Mulligan. Directed by my favorite new director Steve McQueen.

Fassbender and McQueen at the NYFF

The FiftyFiftyMe challenge: read 50 books and watch 50 movies in 2012. I reached movie number 50 with The Running Man on Saturday, April 7th! It was my husband’s pick.

1. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
2. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
3. The Sand Pebbles
4. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
5. The A-Team
6. Bill Cunningham New York
7. The Long Good Friday
8. A Dangerous Method
9. The Fall
10. The Artist
11. Tales from Earthsea
12. Restless
13. Contagion
14. Tabloid
15. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
16. It Might Get Loud
17. The Descendants
18. Anita: Swedish Nymphet
19. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
20. Drive Angry
21. The Grey 
22. Rampart
23. Wristcutters
24. Ides of March
25. The Happening
26. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
27. A Better Life
28. The Secret World of Arrietty (Kari-gurashi no Arietti)
29. Take Shelter
30. A Prayer for the Dying
31. The Notebook
32. Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?)
33. 50/50
34. Hugo
35. Senna
36. Pearl Jam 20
37. Run Simon Run (not a documentary about the filming of Simon Pegg in Run, Fat Boy, Run, but a made-for-TV Aaron Spelling-produced 1970 movie starring Burt Reynold).
38. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
39. Melancholia
40. Tower Heist
41. The Hunger Games
42. Powder
43. My Week with Marilyn
44. Roadie
45. Young Adult
46. Another Earth
47. Battle Royale
48. The Muppets
49. The Raid: Redemption
50. The Running Man
51. Tinker Tailor Solider Spy
52. Martha Marcy May Marlene
53. Carnage
54. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
55. Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
56. I Saw the Devil
57. Total Recall
58. Cabin in the Woods
59. War Horse
60. Still Crazy
61. 13
62. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
63. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
64. Sleepwalk with Me
65. Knuckleball!
66. Italian for Beginngers
67. Real Steel
68. Dark Star
69. The Perfect Storm
70. What Dreams May Come
71. The Sitter
72. Haywire
73. Jackie Brown
74. Marvel’s The Avengers
75. J. Edgar
76. Rise of the Footsoldier
77. The Black Hole
78. The Point
79. Shame
80. The General (1998)
81. Kira’s Reason
82. L.A. Without a Map
83. Like Crazy
84. Bridesmaids
85. Hunger