January 2

My friend Heather and I are continuing our tradition of trying to view all the Oscar nominated movies this year and as many movies with best acting nominees as possible. Tonight we saw The Descendants. It's a great movie; I really enjoyed it.

I have already seen The Help, The Ides of March and Midnight in Paris. A few other movies on our list to see this year with potential best picture and best acting nominees include: The Artist, Moneyball, Hugo, War Horse, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Tree of Life, My Week with Marilyn and Young Adult.

So, that's a bit ambitious, and I know we won't really watch all of those in the next two months. But it will be fun to try!