Sarah's Top Ten Films of 2012! (And Andrew's Bottom Five!)

Sarah: Hello movie lovers and Happy New Year! We are so looking forward to the new year and all the great new movies that it has to offer! I gotta say, I'm pretty excited that the world didn't end because we would have seriously missed out on some good ones. So in response to the new year, Andrew and I are going to be looking back a little and bring you each of our favorite films from 2012. There will probably be some overlap but I can guarantee that we liked some movies for very different reasons.

Like we did with our two Top Ten List of 2012 So Far, we have some criteria for these lists: the films included have to be films we’ve actually seen and reviewed, and they had to be films that were released in theatres for public consumption in the United States during the 2012 calendar year. If you don't see a movie on this list, you can check it against our Reviews page and it's possible we just didn't see it, so it didn't qualify for our list.

At the bottom of my list you'll also be able to find Andrew's Bottom Five of 2012. You'll have to check out his Top Ten list to see what my bottom five were. Okay! I'm going to do my list in the countdown method, after the jump. Here we go...

A Perfect Blend of Comedic Timing and Creative Spins of Popular Music: Our Review of "Pitch Perfect" (2012)

Directed By: Jason Moore 

Starring: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin

Rating: PG-13 for sexual material, drug references and language

Run Time: 1 hour, 52 minutes

Synopsis: After a disastrous performance at the national competition the year before, Barden University's all-female competitive a cappella group, The Barden Bellas, must regroup. In doing so they manage to snag Beca (Kendrick) a loner freshman who aspires to be a music producer to join their rag-tag group, and who might just give them the fresh blood they need to beat the all-male group, The Treblemakers.

REVIEW

Andrew: Hello readers! Last night Sarah and I braved the Friday night middle school crowd to see a film we’ve been meaning to catch for a couple of weeks now, Pitch Perfect, starring a personal favorite of ours in Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air).

Sarah: Yeah, she’s been growing on us more lately, but we’ve always been fans of hers.

A: Very true. So we caught her latest, Pitch Perfect, which is a comedy about college a cappella groups at the fictional Barden University. Kendrick’s character, Beca, is a freshman who is only going to college to appease her father who teaches at the school, because she’d rather move to L.A. to become a music producer.

But this also stars Rebel Wilson as Fat Amy, and Wilson, who’s become more famous State-side after her small role in Bridesmaids, should become a comedic star after this. Also starring in Pitch Perfect are Anna Camp (The Help) and Brittany Snow (Hairspray) as Aubrey and Chloe, the leaders of the Barden Bellas, and some new faces too…

You can tell Anna Kendricks' Beca is an outsider who wants to become a DJ because of her piercings, makeup and big earphones. But it works. It really does.

Our Preview of This Week's New Releases (for Friday, September 28th)

Andrew: Hello readers! We're back with another weekly preview (sorry for them being sporadic lately) and boy is this one a doozy. We have a few wide release films coming out such as the new Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis film Won't Back Down; the Anna Kendrick led a cappella film Pitch Perfect; a new animated kids film in time for Halloween, Hotel Transylvania; and most importantly, one of the most highly-anticipated science-fiction films to come along in quite a while - the Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Bruce Willis time travel film Looper.

Sarah, I want to kick things off with the one we're most excited about, and that's Looper. It's directed by Rian Johnson, who isn't very well-known to the general public but he started to make a name for himself with 2005's high school noir film Brick (also starring JGL), 2008's The Brothers Bloom, and a couple of well-received episodes of AMC's Breaking Bad. The exciting thing about Johnson, to me, is that he wrote the film as well and it has a killer set-up. (More after the jump)

Official Trailer for Looper