2013 Recap: Movies I've Watched This Year

January

1. Life of Pi (2012) // Ang Lee
2. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) // Brad Silberling
3. Carnage (2011) // Roman Polanski
4. Crazy, Stupid Love (2011) // John Requa, Glenn Ficarra
5. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) // Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
6. Love at First Hiccup (2009) // Barbara Topsoe-Rothenborg
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) // Stephen Chbosky
8. Les Miserables (2012) // Tom Hooper
9. Pokemon:The Movie 2000 (1999) // Kunihiko Yuyama
10. Pokemon: Jirachi Wish Maker (2004) // Kunihiko Yuyama

February

1. Pokémon 4Ever - Celebi: Voice of the Forest (2001) // Kunihiko Yuyama
2. Silver Linings Playbook (2012) // David O. Russell
3. Pokemon 3: Spell of the Unown (2000) // Kunihiko Yuyama
4. When Harry Met Sally (1989) // Rob Reiner
5. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) // Wes Anderson
6. Pokemon Heroes: Latios and Latias (2002) // Kunihiko Yuyama
7. Tootsie (1982) // Sydney Pollack

March

1. Jeff Who Lives at Home (2011) // Jay and Mark Duplass
2. Pokemon: Zoroark: Masters of Illusions (2010) // Kunihiko Yuyama
3. Pokemon: Mewtwo Returns (2000) // Darren Dunstan and Kunihiko Yuyama
4. Howl (2010) // Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
5. Wreck-it Ralph (2012) // Rich Moore
6. Nowhere Boy (2009) // Sam Taylor-Wood
7. Rabbit Hole (2010) // John Cameron Mitchell
8. Backbeat (1994) // Iain Softley
9. A Hard Day’s Night (1964) //  Richard Lester

April

1. Yellow Submarine (1968) // George Dunning
2. The Others (2001) // Alejandro Amenabar
3. Pokemon: the Rise of Darkrai (2007) // Kunihiko Yuyama
4. Chapter 27 (2007) // Jarrett Schaefer
5. Grassroots (2012) // Stephen Gyllenhaal
6. Powder Blue (2007) // Timothy Linh Bui
7. Liberal Arts (2012) // Josh Radnor

May

1. Thelma (2011) // Paul Soriano
2. The Hunger Games (2012) // Gary Ross
3. Temptation Island (1980) // Joey Gosiengfiao
4. Ligo na U, Lapit na Me (2011) // Erick C. Salud
5. Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles (2012) // Erik Matti
6. The Road (2011)// Yam Laranas
7. Pokemon Black: Victini and Reshiram (2012) // Kunihiko Yuyama
8. Owl City: Live at Los Angeles (2011) // Mark Lucas
9. Project X (2012) // Nima Nourizadeh
10. I Do Bi Doo Bi Doo:  Heto nAPO Sila! (2012) // Chris Martinez

June

1. Pokemon White: Victini and Zekrom (2012) // Kunihiko Yuyama
2. Kyurem vs the Sword of Justice (2012) // Kunihiko Yuyama
3. Donnie Darko (2001) // Richard Kelly

July

1. Ruby Sparks (2012) // Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
2. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) //  Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
3. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) // Danny Boyle
4. Doubt (2008) // John Patrick Shanley
5. Religulous (2008) // Larry Charles
6. Pitch Perfect (2012) // Jason Moore
7. Bandslam (2009) // Todd Graff

August

1. The Da Vinci Code (2006) // Ron Howard
2. God Delusion (2006) // Richard Dawkins
3. Gone with the Wind (1939) // Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
4. Angels and Demons (2009) // Ron Howard
5. Creation (2009) // Jon Amiel
6. Moulin Rouge (2001) // Baz Luhrmann
7. For Ellen (2012) // So Yong Kim
8. Life of Pi (2012) // Ang Lee
9. The Tourist (2010) // Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

September

1. Carrie (1976) // Brian De Palma
2. Fireproof (2008) // Alex Kendrick
3. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) // Terry Jones

October

1. Pokemon Origins (2013) // Itsuro Kawasaki, Yukio Kuroda, Hideya Takahashi, Daiki Tomiyasu
2. Doremifasolasido (2008) // Kang Gyeon-Hyang
   
3. Before Midnight (2013) // Richard Linklater
4. From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) // Goro Miyazaki

November

1. Watership Down (1978) // Martin Rosen
2. Aparisyon (2012) // Vincent Sandoval
3. Another Day to Die Hard (2013) // John Moore 
4. Memento (2000) // Christopher Nolan
5. The Hunger Games: Cathing Fire (2013) // Francis Lawrence
6. The Hours (2003) // Stephen Daldry

December

1. Jane Eyre (2011) // Cary Joji Fukunaga
2. Invictus (2009) // Clint Eastwood
3. This is the End (2013) // Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
4. Geography Club (2013) // Gary Entin
5. Mean Girls (2004) // Mark Waters

2013 Recap: Books I've Read this Year

January

1. Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Schbosky)
2. The Dawn Patrol (Don Winslow)
3. Lumayo Ka Nga sa Akin (Bob Ong)

February

1. After the Quake (Haruki Murakami)
2. Kapitan Sino (Bob Ong)
3. Mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan (Bob Ong)

March

1. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs)

April

1. It’s Not that Complicated: Bakit Hindi pa Sasakupin ng mga Alien ang Daigdig sa 2012 (Eros S. Atalia)
2. Looking for Alaska (John Green)
3. Titser (Liwayway Arceo) 

May

1. The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
2. Paper Towns (John Green)
3. An Abundance of Katherines (John Green)
4. Divergent (Veronica Roth)
5. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)

June

1. Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
2. Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
3. Free Four (Veronica Roth)
4. Will Grayson, Will Grayson (John Green and David Levithan)
5. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

July

1. Slumdog Millionaire (Vikas Swarup)
2. Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
3. Let It Snow (John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle)
4. Unholy Night (Seth Grahamme-Smith)
5. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

August

1. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
2. The Wasp Eater (William Lychack)
3. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
4. El Filibusterismo (Jose Rizal)

September

1. Beatrice and Virgil (Yann Martel)
2. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
3. A Million Little Pieces (James Frey)

October

1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
2. Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)

December

1. Geography Club (Brent Hartinger)
2. The Order of the Poison Oak (Brent Hartinger)
3. Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies/ Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies (Brent Hartinger)
4. Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
5. The Elephant of Surprise (Brent Hartinger)
6. The Realm of Possibility (David Levithan)
7. Two Thousand Pounds Per Square Inch (Brent Hartinger)
8. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (Jennifer Smith)
9. The Lover's Dictionary (David Levithan)
10. Wes and Toren (JM Colail)
11. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Jesse Andrews)
12. Teenage Rewrite (Brandon Williams)
13. Out of the Pocket (Bill Konigsberg)
14. Boy Meets Boy (David Levithan)