List #45: Countdown to the New Year [25 Days to Go]

The Daily Wreck is almost 4 years old!

Tonight we start a rundown of all the names and titles mentioned by The Daily Wreck over the course of those four years, before we reflect back on 2014 with some "Best Of" lists in January.



Part 1: Today's Installment Is Brought to You by the Letter "A"


A
The Abandoned Sock   Rec. #273
Abbott and Costello   (Rec. #282)
Abbott, Paul   Rec. #14, Rec. #104, FF: Rec. #104, List #16, List #26, Rec. #290, FF: Rec. #14
Abrams, Aaron   List #29
Across the Universe   Rec. #334

Adams, Amy   Rec. #139
Adams, Douglas   Rec. #4, Rec. #42, (Rec. #80), Rec. #162, List #7, Rec. #198, Rec. #230, Rec. #239, FF: Rec. #162, Rec. #279, List #25, Rec. #306, Rec. #332, QfFC #27, (FF: Rec. #80), FF: Rec. #4
Adams, Franklin Pierce   Rec. #296
Adams, Heather   QfFC #31
Adams, Jane   Rec. #92, Rec. #296
Adam's Rib   (Rec. #94)
Adams, Sam   QfFC #31
Adaptation   (Rec. #15), (List #7)
Adventures in Babysitting   (Rec. #59), (FF: Rec. #59)

After the Wedding   List #29
After You with the Pistol   (Rec. #31), (FF: Rec. #31)
Aiding and Abetting   Personal Wreck #5, Rec. #220, (Rec. #305), FF: Rec. #220
Aiello, Danny   Rec. #275
Aldarisio, Alfredo   (Rec. #99), (List #29)
Alexander, Olly   Rec. #361
The Alexandria Quartet   (Rec. #125), (FF: Rec. #125)
Algonquin Round Table   Rec. #237
Alibi   (Rec. #14), (Rec. #290), (FF: Rec. #14)
Alice in Wonderland   (Rec. #282)

All About Emily   Rec. #266, (Rec. #355)
All About Eve   (Rec. #266)
All Clear   Personal Wreck #5, Gift Idea #1, (Rec. #218), (Rec. #248), (Rec. #266), (FF: Rec. #218), List #33, Rec. #355, List #44
All Over Your Face   Rec. #155, FF: Rec. #155
All That Jazz   (Rec. #262)
All the President's Men   (Rec. #104), (FF: Rec. #104)
All the Real Girls   Rec. #197, FF: Rec. #197
"All These Sexist Gamer Dudes Are Some Shook Ones"   List #19

All This Heavenly Glory   Rec. #314, (FF: Rec. #73)
Allen, Joan   Rec. #179
Alleyn, Roderick   Rec. #37, (Rec. #60), Rec. #102, (Rec. #144), (FF: Rec. #60), (Rec. #244), QfFC #25, FF: Rec. #102
Allingham, Margery   (Rec. #60), Rec. #133, Rec. #156, (FF: Rec. #60), FSoM #3, (Rec. #297), QfFC #17
Allison, John   Rec. #138, Personal Wreck #1, List #10, List #12, FF: Rec. #138, (Rec. #303), Gift Idea #8, List #44
Altman, Robert   (Rec. #20)
Alvarez, Eddie   (Rec. #249)
Ameche, Don   Rec. #194, FF: Rec. #194

Amelie   (Rec. #52), (Rec. #74), (Rec. #86), (FF: Rec. #74), (FF: Rec. #86), Rec. #300, (FF: Rec. #52)
American Gods   (FF: Rec. #250), (Rec. #306)
Amos, Tori   Rec. #187, FF: Rec. #187
L'Amour Fou   (Rec. #223)
Amphigorey   Rec. #207, (Rec. #273), FF: Rec. #207, List #40, (Rec. #352)
Amphigorey Also   Rec. #352
Amphigorey Too   Rec. #273, (FF: Rec. #207), List #40, (Rec. #352)

And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand   (see Away Laughing on a Fast Camel)
And Then There Were None   Bonus Non-Rec.
Anderson, Brad   Rec. #59, Rec. #253, FF: Rec. #253, FF: Rec. #59
Anderson, Judith   Rec. #193, FF: Rec. #193
Anderson, Wes   (Rec. #45), (Rec. #131), Rec. #189, (FF: Rec. #45), (FF: Rec. #131), (Rec. #304), FF: Rec. #189
Andersson, Theresa   Rec. #187, FF: Rec. #187
"Andrew in Drag"   Rec. #299
Andrews, Dana   Rec. #193, FF: Rec. #193
Andy Richter Controls the Universe   (Rec. #147), (FF: Rec. #147)

Angel Face   Rec. #284, QfFC #51
Angela Thirkell's World: A Complete Guide to the People and Places of Barsetshire   (Gift Idea #11)
Angelou, Maya   (Rec. #23), (FF: Rec. #23)
Angels and Ages   List #26
The Angel's Game   Personal Wreck #1, Rec. #184
Angels in America   (Rec. #132), (FF: Rec. #132), QfFC #16
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging   Rec. #130
Aniston, Jennifer   (Rec. #360)
Annand, Simon   Rec. #178, List #12, FF: Rec. #178
Annis, Francesca   Rec. #290, Rec. #354
Ant Farm   Personal Wreck #5

Apted, Michael   Rec. #33, FF: Rec. #33
Arbuthnot, Rose   Rec. #113
Archer   (Rec. #31), (FF: Rec. #31)
Archer, Amy   QfFC #36
Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?   Rec. #130
The Areas of My Expertise   (Rec. #12), (FF: Rec. #12)
L'Argent de Poche   List #17, List #24
Aristotle   (Rec. #241)
Arkin, Alan   Rec. #26, Personal Wreck #4, FF: Rec. #26
Armisen, Fred   List #37, Rec. #356
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City   Rec. #316

Armitage, Richard   List #13, List #16, FF: List #13
L'Arnacoeur   List #17
Arnett, Will   Rec. #325
Arrested Development   (Rec. #263)
Arsenic and Old Lace   List #20, FF: List #20, List #42
Art & Lies   Rec. #349
Arthur, Jean   Rec. #339, List #42
Artists in Crime   QfFC #25
Ascending Peculiarity   Rec. #80, (Rec. #98), List #5, List #7, (Rec. #207), (Rec. #273), (FF: Rec. #98), (FF: Rec. #207), List #40, FF: Rec. #80, (Rec. #352)

Ashby, Patrick   Rec. #200
Asimov, Isaac   (Rec. #266)
Asta   (Rec. #219), (FF: Rec. #219)
Astaire, Fred   List #41
Astor, Mary   Rec. #17, List #1, Rec. #194, FF: Rec. #194, FF: Rec. #17
At Bertram's Hotel   FSoM #7
Atkins, Eileen   (Rec. #34), (FF: Rec. #34)
Atkins, Nicole   Rec. #187, FF: Rec. #187
Atkinson, Kate   Rec. #3, Rec. #69, (Rec. #73), Rec. #137, List #4, Personal Wreck #2, Personal Wreck #4, Rec. #192, FF: Rec. #137, FF: List #4, FSoM #14, Rec. #270, List #26, Rec. #282, Rec. #301, FF: Rec. #192, List #35, FF: Rec. #69, FF: Rec. #3, (FF: Rec. #73)
Atlas   Rec. #272
Atwood, Margaret   (Rec. #46), Rec. #105, (Rec. #146), Personal Wreck #3, Rec. #203, (FF: Rec. #46), (Rec. #272), Rec. #298, FF: Rec. #203, List #31

August Folly   QfFC #43
Auntie Mame   Rec. #70, Personal Wreck #2, FF: Rec. #70, (FF: Rec. #125)
Austen, Jane   (Rec. #40), (Rec. #130), Personal Wreck #3, Rec. #240, (FF: Rec. #40), QfFC #29, QfFC #33, Gift Idea #11
The A.V. Club   (Rec. #326)
Avedon, Richard   (List #41)
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel   Rec. #130
Away We Go   Rec. #83, (Rec. #91), List #18
The Awdrey-Gore Legacy   Rec. #352
The Awful Truth   (Rec. #17), Rec. #219, (Rec. #229), (List #20), FF: Rec. #219, (FF: List #20), (QfFC #18), List #42, (FF: Rec. #17)

Bonus Non-Rec.: And Then There Were None

What: This 1945 film is based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name (sometimes titled Ten Little Indians).

My points:
First, I should make it clear that I am in no way suggesting that you should not watch this movie. I am just suggesting that you shouldn't expect it to be good, especially if you've read the book.

In my opinion, Agatha Christie is not the best Golden Age mystery author, although currently she is the most famous. (Oh, we will get to this discussion in due time, believe me.) Her novel And Then There Were None, however, is a genuinely chilling and unsettling story. It does not have a happy ending.

Unsurprisingly, this film version of the novel struggles with tone. At times, it strikes the right note of foreboding, but the movie keeps drifting into farce as it hiccups its way to a cheerful resolution. Most of the time, I support having a bit of fun with an uneven tone (I'm a fan of Charade, after all), but here the shifts don't come across as deliberate. They just seem like placeholders.

It's as if the filmmakers wanted to make a very specific, very different type of movie, but Christie's plot kept getting in the way.

Representative quote: "Very stupid to kill the only servant in the house. Now we don't even know where to find the marmalade."