Sure, that makes sense - let's cram the four best movies of the year within a month!

Today's blog post focuses on something that consumes nearly 50 percent of my off-duty hours - cinema. Especially considering the sweet bonus we get of free movie tickets every Tuesday (thank you Optimum Triple Play!), Kyle and I have been quite the movie goers here lately. And with temperatures barely lingering above freezing most days, watching a film from the comfort of a heated movie theatre sounds like a pretty good idea.

In the last month, we've seen four amazingly-awesome movies: Black Swan, The Fighter, True Grit and The King's Speech (in that order). It was thrilling as a movie-goer to see four excellent, thought-provoking and well directed films back to back. My favorite was Black Swan - partly because of my affinity for Natalie Portman, but also because I absolutely loved the direction. (Thank you Darren Aronofsky)

The Fighter was a close second in my opinion, not only because my liking for action-packed sports movies, but also because of the personal struggles overcome by each character. And of course, the brood of white-trash sisters were simply hillarious.

The Kings Speech and True Grit were also very good... I would probably rank them third and fourth, respectively.

But like all good things, they must come to an end. And you surely must know it's the end when you check the movie listings and the only things flashing back at you are a pathetic Justin Bieber film and yet another scanty flick from Ashton Kutcher. (Though I may reserve seeing "No Strings Attached" for a boring, rainy day when it comes out on Red Box simply because it features Natalie Portman.....)

And while I didn't catch 127 Hours in theatres, I can only cling to the hope that my streak of enjoying quality cinema will be restored when it's finally released on Blu-Ray. (I've completely given up hope on regular DVDs - Blu-Ray is amazing!)