It all began like this... Cinema 2011 #1: Love and Other Drugs

I like the cinema. I really like the cinema. That doesn't mean I like the films though...

And that's why I find myself here, to chronicle and critique all the movies I see in 2011.

Now, don't get me wrong, I realise it's currently 36 days into the year. That means roughly 10% of the current solar circuit we so ephemerally cling to has already passed us by as we continue on this non-stop one-way trip to tomb town. But turn those musings-on-mortality-and-crippling-fears-of-the-finality-of-transient-existence frowns upside down, I'm here to help.

Perhaps I'm hopping on the January bandwagon of impulses to change my life through creative outlets a tad late. It's all Facebook's fault; there I was, happily listing all the movies I saw in a year in my About Me box, recording a rom-com here, charting a comedy there. And then those fascists changed the profile layout and low and behold the sweet square-inch of cinematic inventory disappeared under folds of data and code.

But the human spirit is brave, and this cinéaste got off his ass and changed his status. 04 January 14.44, Cinema 2011 #1: Love and Other Drugs.

04 January 14.49. "Any good?", she asked, that siren call to spill forth the opinions brimming up inside me, that movie meniscus that had always threatened to splash over into the unknown. And oh, how it splashed...