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Photo Play, 2012

JANUARY: Warner Brothers Tough Guys
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Casablanca (1942)
Little Caesar (1931)
(bonus) Footlight Parade (1933)

FEBRUARY: Temporal Conundrums for Leap Year
Frequency (2000)
Time After Time (1979)
Returner (2002)
Pirates of Penzance (1983)

MARCH: Name That Tree
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Secret of Kells (2009)
The Natural (1984)
The New World (2005)

APRIL: April Showers Bring… Umbrellas
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
My Best Girl (1927)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

MAY: Essential Kurosawa
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Ikiru (1952)
High and Low (1963)
Ran (1985)

JUNE: After Kurosawa Comes Homage
Throwdown (2004)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Star Wars (1977)

JULY: Four Wars, Four POW Escapes
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Grand Illusion (1937)
The Great Escape (1963)
(bonus) Chicken Run (2000)
Rescue Dawn (2007)

AUGUST: Fairs and Festivals
Faust (1926)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
The Music Man (1962)
Mohabbatein (2000)

SEPTEMBER: A Good Ninja Is Hard to Find
Red Shadow (2001)
Shinobi no Mono (1962)
Ninja Scroll (1993)
Samurai Spy (1965)

NOVEMBER: Home Is Where the Kitchen Is
Shadow of a Doubt (1942)
The More the Merrier (1943)
Laura (1944)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

DECEMBER: Scrooge’s Tale in Four Acts
Scrooge (1951)
Scrooge (1970)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
A Christmas Carol (1999)

MISCELLANEOUS
Dr. No (1962)