For the second year in a row, I have been lucky enough to be able to watch all ten best picture nominees before the actual awards night. This year was even easier, as I had seen seven of the nominees even before nominees were announced, this year through a combination of keeping an eye on…

Thanks to a combination of seeing two of these last year, a variety of streaming services, cheap showings at local movie theaters, and Oscar Week at the main theater I go to, I was able to do something I have never done before: view all this year's Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. I feel…

As timely as ever, it is time for me to wrap up the new releases I was able to watch in 2021. As always, while I obviously don't mind praising the movies I enjoyed the most from the year, I do not like ragging on the movies I liked the least. Even if a movie…

This was a weird year for movies, as I was only able to see two of these movies in an actual movie theater and with me only spending a collective, like, $50 or $60 on these in total (not including subscriptions to streaming services in which case I spent way more than that, but you…

Hello, everyone! I know that it has been a very long time since I have written, but 2020 has obviously been...odd, to say the least, and writing hasn't been a top priority for any number of reasons. That said, I do want to get back into it, even if only for a couple quick summary…

I could spend a lot of time trying to explain why I didn't write this before the back half of 2020, or what made me all of a sudden decide that the back half of 2020 was the time to write this. Or I could just say "everything's bad. Here are my favorite movies from…

You've seen me say nice things about every other movie I saw last year, so here is the final ranking. I will note, that there is one movie that I imagine will make a very strong run at my top five, with Barry Jenkins' gorgeous looking adaptation of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk not…

Listen, y'all,  making movies is hard. A lot of people put a lot of effort into the movies, and sometimes that comes through very clearly, and other times it is less readily apparent. Either way, people work hard on these things for months, and calling something "one of the worst" isn't something I'm looking to…