2017 was a historically good year for movies. It’s the kind of year that film fans twenty years from now will look back at and wonder what it must have been like to have Blade Runner 2049, Alien:Covenant, Wonder Woman, The Shape of Water, Get Out, and The Last Jedi all released within the same year. … Continue reading David’s Top 10 Movies of 2018
On more levels than I care to recount, 2017 was a roaring hellfire of a year. A year so bad that a beloved celebrity suddenly dying feels like the preferable alternative to finding out that they are secretly sex fiends. A year so bad that the President of the United States probably colluding with Russia … Continue reading David’s Top 10 Movies of 2017
I must begin this best-of-the-year list with the biggest of all disclaimers: I did not see half the movies I wanted to this year, and a lot of the ones I missed were in the annual awards season flurry where seemingly every “must see” film of the year comes out in the span of three … Continue reading David’s Top Ten Movies of 2015
The idea of “ranking” something as complex as art is one that is fundamentally absurd. Trying to quantify that which is unquantifiable is a fool’s errand, and it’s the reason why I never give numerical ratings or letter grades to any movies I review. Hell, I refuse to even assign star ratings to movies I … Continue reading David’s Definitive Marvel Movie Rankings
I’m not quite sure when exactly it happened, but after spending the first several months complaining about the absence of a truly great movie, somewhere along the way 2013 turned into another stunningly excellent year for film. I have my real top ten list coming in a few days, but right now I wanted to … Continue reading Top 10 Scenes of 2013
2013 was kind of a crazy year for me. I applied for, and was accepted to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, I started a new position at work, I made an effort to spend more time watching movies, and I prepared to move my entire life to a new location. In all of that, sadly, … Continue reading The 5 Most Interesting Games I Played in 2013
So it’s that time of year again. The Academy Awards. Whatever you think of the awards show, whether you think the awards actually carry any weight or whether the whole thing is just a masturbatory exercise in self-importance, it’s still kind of fun to make predictions and argue who you think deserves to win. That’s … Continue reading My Picks for the 85th Academy Awards
I still can’t get over just how good of a year 2012 was for movies. It seems unlikely that we’ll have another year like this for quite some time, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some films worth looking forward to in 2013. Here are the ten movies I am most excited for in … Continue reading Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2013
Wow! 2012 was an absolutely incredible year for movies, but not in the way I expected it to be. At the end of 2011 there were a lot of big movies I was looking forward to, but as it would turn out, almost all of them ended up being at least slightly disappointing. Instead, though, … Continue reading Top 10 (Actually 11) Movies of 2012
First, I want to make it clear what the intent of this list is. This is not a “Bottom 5” list. This is not a list of movies I didn’t like, or necessarily thought were bad. At the same time, neither are these all movies that were good. This list has little to do with how much … Continue reading Top 5 Near Misses of 2012
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