2015

Year in review for

Matthew Buchanan Matthew Buchanan Crew

Matthew recorded 256.9 hours watching films

  • 138 Films watched
  • 11.5 Average per month
  • 2.7 Average per week

Films by week

First Film

Force Majeure

Jan 1

Last Film

Batman

Dec 26

The cream, the bone, the off-white, the ivory or the beige?

Matthew Buchanan

With apologies to the late, great Richie Benaud, I present the best…

  • Kyle Kinane: I Liked His Old Stuff Better
  • Chevalier
  • The Lobster
  • Black Mass
  • Diary of a Chambermaid
  • Queen of Earth
  • Mr. Holmes
  • Freeheld
  • Knight of Cups
  • A Wonderful Cloud
  • The Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Sicario
  • Junun
  • Stung
  • Addicted to Fresno
  • A Very Murray Christmas
  • Man Up
  • The Automatic Hate
  • People, Places, Things
  • The Reconstruction of William Zero

Top Genres

2015 Releases Older

Watches Re-watches

Reviewed Not Reviewed

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Ratings spread

Watched 38 Added 50

Watchlist

Most watched Stars

Most watched Directors

Letterboxd crushes

Based on liked reviews & lists

Matthew’s most liked review

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness 2013

★★★★ 24 likes

This intimate look behind the veil of Japan’s Studio Ghibli reveals as much about its two star directors (each in the process of completing his final film) as it does about the studio’s approach to filmmaking. Miyazaki’s quiet, thoughtful side might be guessed at by viewing his films, but the…

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Matthew’s most liked list

Kyle Kinane: I Liked His Old Stuff Better Kyle Kinane: I Liked His Old Stuff Better
Chevalier Chevalier
The Lobster The Lobster

The cream, the bone, the off-white, the ivory or the beige?

34 films 24 likes

With apologies to the late, great Richie Benaud, I present the best in beige poster art for 2015.

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Highest Average Rating

The Empire Strikes Back
Average weighted rating:

4.4

Lowest Average Rating

The Canyons
Average weighted rating:

2.0

Most Popular

Mad Max: Fury Road
Average weighted rating:

4.3

Most Obscure

Enchanted Kingdom
Average weighted rating:

3.4

Films watched in 2015

  • Batman
  • Home Alone
  • The Martian
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Everest
  • Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • The Duke of Burgundy
  • Captain Phillips
  • Beasts of No Nation
  • The Big Short
  • Journey to the Christmas Star
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Village
  • The Overnight
  • Spectre
  • Monsters
  • Annie
  • The Secret of Kells
  • We Are Your Friends
  • Back in Time
  • Amy
  • Invictus
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Gravity
  • San Andreas
  • Of Miracles and Men
  • Big Eyes
  • The Hunting Ground
  • Magic Mike XXL
  • Black Mass
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • The Martian
  • The Canyons
  • Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
  • Mission to Mars
  • The Dark Crystal
  • Back to the Future Part II
  • While We're Young
  • Sicario
  • Z for Zachariah
  • It Follows
  • Trainwreck
  • Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead
  • The Abyss
  • Straight Outta Compton
  • Being Evel
  • Back to the Future
  • Nightcrawler
  • Red Army
  • The Parent Trap
  • Into the Wild
  • Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
  • Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
  • '71
  • Very Semi-Serious
  • Sunshine Superman
  • Enchanted Kingdom
  • Turbo Kid
  • The Wolfpack
  • The Lobster
  • Infini
  • Inside Out
  • Jurassic Park
  • The Spectacular Now
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Terminator Genisys
  • Palo Alto
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Pride
  • Finders Keepers
  • Jurassic World
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service
  • American Sniper
  • Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
  • The Goonies
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Gone Girl
  • Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary
  • Focus
  • Good Kill
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Ground We Won
  • A Most Violent Year
  • Slow West
  • Ex Machina
  • Star Wars
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Pitch Perfect 2
  • Infernal Affairs
  • Maggie
  • The Spiderwick Chronicles
  • The American
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Blackhat
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie
  • The Adventures of Tintin
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • Unknown
  • Wild
  • Taken 3
  • Taken 2
  • White Bird in a Blizzard
  • Solaris
  • Inherent Vice
  • Faults
  • Interstellar
  • Cinderella
  • Insurgent
  • The Rover
  • Song of the Sea
  • Predestination
  • Big Hero 6
  • The Skeleton Twins
  • Starred Up
  • Foxcatcher
  • Commando
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
  • John Wick
  • The Imitation Game
  • Honeymoon
  • The Theory of Everything
  • Coherence
  • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
  • Polytechnique
  • The Babadook
  • The Drop
  • Two Night Stand
  • Fury
  • Under the Skin
  • Birdman
  • Listen Up Philip
  • The Trip to Italy
  • Force Majeure

Highly rated films Matthew missed

  • The Second Mother
  • Mustang
  • Son of Saul
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
  • Bitter Lake
  • In Jackson Heights
  • John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid

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