NOW we're talking! Here are the best films I saw last year! 10) Code 3 (2025) Rainn Wilson is perfectly cast as a burned-out paramedic, who must try to make it through his last shift, while training a young, unjaded apprentice. It's funny and serious. Wacky and grim. Goofy and heartfelt. The film effortlessly strikes a perfect balance between these opposing styles and moods. I love discovering…
Well, I finally got my s*** together for a timely post on my best and worst film experiences from last year. We'll start with the worst. 10) Mickey 17 (2025) I like Robert Pattinson. I want to like director Bong Joon Ho. Obviously, I'm a science fiction fan. But I just couldn't stand this film. Everything about it annoys me. The story. R-Paz's character. His f**king moronic narration. The girl.…
We're back, with the stats! Time for the traditional counting of the movies and TV-shows I watched last year. After a disappointing number of movies watched in 2024, I got a bit closer to a solid number this year. Watched a lot of 90's movies for the first time, and skipped a number of 2025's big movies, just because they looked like shit. And with that, here are the stats.... THE STATS Number of…
Confessions time. I got stuck, trying to write my top and bottom lists for 2024. I usually do those every year, but the vibe just wasn't there. I kept putting it off and now we're at the end of the year, and I'm out of time. So I'm doing something else this year. Instead of two ranked lists, I've made two alfabetical lists, inspired by the likes of AFI and National Board of Review, with the best…
We're back, with the stats! Once again we take a look back at the media consumption of the previous year in pure numbers. It was an appalling year on several fronts, but my final number of movies watched last year, was the lowest since I started the count in 2008! It wil be very easy to top that this year! But enough talk, here are.... THE STATS Number of films watched in 2024: 234 Comparison :…
Overall 2023 was a disappointing year at the movies, but we did get a couple of handfuls of excellent movies along the way, so it wasn't hard to fill this top 10. HONORABLE MENTIONS First a few honorable mentions, worth checking out. Polite Society (2023) The Princess (2022) Renfield (2023) To Catch a Killer (2023) Door Mouse (2022) And now, the actual list.... THE LIST 10) A Lot of Nothing (2023)…
Before we begin this little journey through my worst film experiences from 2023, an important message from the board. Public service announcement from the board Please note the following changes to The Rules: From this point on movies where one story is split into two (or more) parts will be ineligible for any "end of the year" or "best of" lists until all the parts have been released.…
Well sports fans, here we are again. Time for the annual January 1st tradition, The Stats. What was last year like in pure numbers, when it comes to my consumption of movies and TV shows? Hold your breath no longer... Number of films watched in 2023: 263 Comparison: 2022 (262) - 2021 (292) - 2020 (329) 2019 (263) - 2018 (290) - 2017 (263) - 2016 (288) 2015 (307) - 2014 (331) - 2013 (401) - 2012…
Director: Mo McRae. Starring: Cleopatra Coleman, Y'lan Noel, Shamier Anderson, Lex Scott Davis, Justin Hartley. Release: DVD and Blu-ray. A successful black couple discover that their white neighbor is the cop who just shot a black kid, and they decide to do something about it. That’s about all you should know about the plot going into this film, except of course that the title is grossly…
The best of 2022! Pure and simple. Impossible to argue with! No one can disagree with these choices. Right? Right! Let's get into it, but first.... HONORABLE MENTIONS I decided to only do a Top 10 this year, so I have to include a few honourable mentions. Millie Bobby Brown is once again an absolute delight in the fun Enola Holmes 2 (2022). The pitch perfect rebooted Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)…
Well, here we are, back at it again, with the - counting on my fingers - 15th annual list of my best and worst movies experiences from the last year. In 2022 I took a deep dive into the films of the 1930's, as a result I had fewer new films to pick from for the lists, so I've decided just to do Top 10s this year. Learn to love it. First a few titles that didn't make it to the actual list....…
It's that time again! Time to look back at the previous year to determine how well we did, when it came to movies and TV-shows. This year I completely fell in love with the pre-code period (1928-1934), so almost 1/5 of the films I watched came from that brief period. But enough chit chat, let's get on with it... Number of films watched in 2022: 262 Comparison : - 2021 (292) - 2020 (329) - 2019…
A warning first. This top list is a bit unusual. We didn't get that BIG unavoidable HIT this year. No $200 million Hollywood movie that hit it out of the park, so instead this list is full of smaller, interesting movies, which may not be perfect, but they made an impact on me all the same. And remember. This is MY list. If you have problems with it, they're your problems. No, I'm NOT being…
Well, here we are again! Back at it with another Bottom 20 list after yet another unusual COVID year at the movies. But enough chit-chat, on with the list.... HONORABLE MENTION No Time To Die (2021) It's too classy to make the bottom list, but this long-awaited 25th James Bond movie was still a severe disappointment. The second viewing really crystallized how bad that screenplay and that story is.…
I usually post some sort of semi-profound blog on the last day of the year, but I'll be honest, I didn't know what to say this year. I could have reposted the one from last year, almost verbatim, and if that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does. So instead we'll skip to the new year and start fresh by adding up the stats from 2021 as we prepare for the lists of the best and worst films from…
Director: Alan Taylor. Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Leslie Odom Jr, Michael Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll. Release: Theatrical and HBO Max. Full disclosure: I never saw more than the first episode of The Sopranos . Hated every single character on the show and never went back for episode 2. In theory that should not be a problem, since this is a prequel, the…
Director: Leigh Janiak. Starring: Kiana Madeira, Benjamin Flores Jr., Olivia Scott Welch, Julia Rehwald, Fred Hechinger, Ashley Zukerman. Release: Netflix. Let's get the obvious out of the way first: This is not a trilogy of films. It's a miniseries packaged as three feature films. That's a fun gimmick, but make no mistake, these films can't be watched separately as individual stories. They work…
Director. Mathieu Turi. Starring: Gaia Weiss. Release: VOD. A woman wakes up in a tiny room, with no memory of how she got there. She must now make her way through a series of tight tunnels (think the air ducts of Die Hard ). The problem is: The tunnels are full of deadly traps. Oh, and there's a deadline too! That's about all you should know about Meander before you see it, making a review a bit…
THIS is what we're all here for! The BEST films of 2020. Too much badness in that year. We need and deserve some good films, and here are my favorites.... THE LIST 20) DeadTectives I know this looks dumb. And to be fair, it IS dumb. It's meant to be! The delightful Chris Geere (of You're the Worst -fame) leads a pack of fake ghost-hunters, who are suddenly forced to step up, when they come across…
Here we are, once again, back with the traditional look at the best and worst films from the past year. 2020 has taken quite enough of our attention already, so let's get on with it... As always, we start with the worst. THE LIST 20) The Old Guard Charlize Theron should have signed up for Mad Max: Fury Road 2 instead of this strangely unambitious, overly familiar, big bummer of a film. It does…
Well, it's a new year and that means we once again must look back on what we accomplished in the previous year in terms of movie-watching. I did quite a bit better this year than last, but I still haven't reached that golden number 365 movies watched in a year. In fact I haven't reached that number since 2013. Oh well, let's look at the stats for 2020.... Number of films watched in 2020: 329…
I think it's safe to say that 2020 has secured a prominent place in the history books. I won't bore anybody with a recap of all the things that went wrong, this is a day for looking forward. Like to the day when The Dump Trump finally chokes on a Big Mac and dies an agonizing death in front a roomful of spineless enablers, who watch in eerie silence, as they realize the moment they've waited so…
Director: Mark Toia. Starring: Neal McDonough, Brett Tutor, Jose Rosete, David Haverty. Release: VOD. A test of military robots in the jungles of Cambodia turns into a bloodbath, when everything goes haywire. The mission was intended to take out a band of local drugdealers, but a group of random doctors and a former SEAL soldier find themselves caught in the crossfire. Meanwhile a trio of techs…
Director: David Ayer. Starring: Bobby Soto, Shia LaBeouf, George Lopez, Cinthya Carmona, Jose Conejo Martin. Release: VOD. Veteran filmmaker and apparently gangsta-wannabe David Ayer follows up on his contributions to Training Day and Harsh Times with this L.A.-based Latino gang story. David (Bobby Soto) is in charge of collecting taxes from the local gangs on behalf of an incarcerated boss, with…
Director: Reed Morano. Starring: Blake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown. Release: VOD. Coming across like Nikita by way of Jason Bourne , this franchise-killing revenge spy movie, has neither the ferocity, the narrative clarity, or the emotional impact of either of these movies or any of the countless other movies it so desperately wants to imitate. Blake Lively stars as a woman destroyed by…