July-December 2014 MVPs

With no particular criteria in mind, I present to you July-December's list of MVPs. 

Gents of the half-year
Richard Burton (The VIPs, The Taming of the Shrew)
Manolo Cardona (Undertow)
Keir Dullea (2001)
Chris Evans (Captain America, Winter Soldier, Snowpiercer, Sunshine)
Spencer Tracy (Fury, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)

Ladies of the half-year
Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)
Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow)
Essie Davis (The Babadook)
Sylvia Sidney (Fury)
Vanessa Redgrave (Coriolanus)

Movies I Watched at Home in 2014, Lists #7-12

Happy New Year!  Here's everything I watched since July 1, so 6 lists in one. Same deal as the others--chronological order of watching with a meaningless grade and not many comments because too many months and too many movies.

• Foreign Correspondent (1940) - B 
• Wings (1927) - A / I thought I'd get bored. I never did. 
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - A+
• Fury (1936) - A-
• Scarlet Street (1945) - B / Back-to-back Fritz Lang makes a good double feature.
• The Barefoot Contessa (1954) - C-
• Stop Making Sense (1986) - A
• Captain America (2011) - B 
• Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014) - B+
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) - C- / There is just no need for this. (And I would watch LOTR any day of the week.)
• Sin City (2005) -B- 
• Alice (1990) - C- 
• The V.I.P.s (1963) - C
• The Taming of the Shrew (1967) - B-
• High Moon (2014) - B- / Someone really should have produced/aired this as a series.
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - A / "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."
• Zodiac (2007) - B+
• All That Jazz (1979) - A
• Closer (2004) - B+
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - A
• The Graduate (1967) - A
• In the Heat of the Night (1967) - A-
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - B
• Doctor Doolittle (1967) - C
• Enough Said (2013) - B+
• Snowpiercer (2014) - A / More movies like this, please.
• September (1987) - B
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) - B-
• Edge of Tomorrow (aka Live Die Repeat) (2014) - A- / Or like this.
• Julia (1978) - D / What a disappointment. Gah.
• Another Woman (1988) - B+
• The Big Country (1958) - A-
• My Darling Clementine (1946) - A
• Sunshine (2007) - A-
• The Babadook (2014) - A- 
• The Goodbye Girl  (1978) - C
• Lantana (2001) - A-
• The Story of Louis Pasteur (1937) - A-
• Ida (2014) - A-
• Blue Ruin (2013) - B+
• Undertow (2013) - B+
• Ascension (2014) - D
• Undertow (2004) - B+
• Coriolanus (2011) - B+