The Chinese internet makes it extremely easy to find, download and watch movies from around the world.
Here’s a list of movies I watched in January 2012, summarised in exactly six words:
- 25th Hour: Edward Norton ties up loose ends
- A Bug’s Life: Venezuelan Coup d’État in cartoon format
- American Beauty: Mid-life crisis becomes calm tragedy
- Antz: Woody Allen’s personal revolution, accepts society
- Australia: Stunning photography, always running from something
- Dancing with Wolves: White soldier defects to Indians, integrates
- First Blood: Bang, bang, boom, boom, bang, boom
- Food, Inc: Meat production is vile. Eat well
- The Future of Food: Monsanto patents soy, corn. Next: oxygen
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Rape. Was there any other storyline?
- The King’s Speech: King learns to speak, gains support
- Melancholia: Melancholy spreads so gracefully, world ends
- Moneyball: Rational Billy Beane almost revolutionised baseball
- No Country for Old Men: Cold psychopath chases money across West
- Schindler’s List: Schindler saves thousands as impostor capitalist
- Silence of the Lambs: Psychopathic psychiatrist proves unrestrainable, cannibalistic
- Toy Story 3: Buzz and Woody overthrow kindergarten tyrant
- Waiting for Superman: Schools improved after idiots got fired
- Wall-E: Adorable robot lovers rejuvenate consumerist hell