June
- Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Americana
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Patti Smith, Banga
- The Honest Truth About Dishonesty by Dan Ariely
- Prometheus
- Dark Horse
- Lola Versus
- George Bellows
- Mission to Paris by Alan Furst
- Usher, Looking 4 Myself
- Hot Chip, In Our Heads
- Dallas
- Rock of Ages
- Your Sister’s Sister
- Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale
- Fiona Apple, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
- Neneh Cherry and the Thing, The Cherry Thing
- Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- Brave
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
- To Rome with Love
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- The Newsroom
- Ry Cooder, Election Special
- Anger Management
- Awkward.
- Louie
- Ted
July
- Lucian Freud: Portraits
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner
- Chris Brown, Fortune
- Gold by Chris Cleave
- Savages
- More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness
- Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan
- Damages
- Breaking Bad
- Political Animals
- You’ll Never Know, Book Three: Soldier’s Heart by C. Tyler
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Broken Harbor by Tana French
- Ruby Sparks
- The Summer Olympics
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