I'm back, and I have movie regrets.

Are you sitting in a big fat meeting? Where there are, I'm sure, massively important things being discussed, but still it kind of sounds like big fat meeting drone (BFMD, which is a catchy acronym for what is happening, which is, sorry to say, not catchy, not even a little.).

Sigh.

Well, not that anyone's counting, but it has been a long time since I wrote anything whatsoever in this space. Reasons? Oh, I've got reasons:

• big fat family visit (BFFV)
• attendant whirl of activities
• attendant whirl of melancholy
• etc.

Paradoxically, now that the visiting/summer are over, and the droning has commenced, I kind of feel optimistic. I have lots of reasons that this is so, but let's leave that for now. For now, what I want to talk about is this:

I have not seen as many movies as I think I should have. Not in order, and as near as I can figure out, here are the movies I've seen in 2014 thus far:

• Wish I Was Here
• The Lego Movie
• The Monuments Men
• Cesar Chavez
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Chef
• Noah
• Veronica Mars
• Rio 2
• Draft Day
• Million Dollar Arm
• X-Men: Days of Future Past
• How To Train Your Dragon 2
• The Fault in Our Stars
• The Rover
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Maleficent
• Ida
• Locke
• Obvious Child
• Snowpiercer
• A Most Wanted Man
• Calvary
• Belle
• Gloria
• The Lunchbox
• What If

I have missed a bunch, and a bunch of good ones (The Immigrant, Night Moves, Only Lovers Left Alive, and also Step Up All In, which I can totally catch, and maybe later today, after the droning either ceases or I quit the droning, whichever happens first.). Also Boyhood, which I am determined not to miss.

Maybe I've seen more, and I just haven't kept track? Let me just say that I never intend not to catch the movies--I am a movie completist. But this year--this year kind of kicked my ass. Reasons? Oh, there are reasons. But I am going to do better. I am going to catch the movies this weekend hardcore. Boyhood at least and probably more. And Step Up All In. Because I am definitely all in for the dance movies, or I don't know what.