2025 at the Movies
2025 movies It usually takes me until about halfway through the following year to catch up with the movie releases for any one year. It usually takes that long to be able to find most movies on streaming, although some movies don’t become available for several months after theater releases. Last year was a year with several instant favorites, and the top two, One Battle After Another and Sinners are nearly tied for my preference. This was a year that had an unusual hit rate o
Five Years Later: 2020 Movies
Every year, I like to go back and rewatch the movies from five years ago, hunting down a few that I missed, and seeing if the movies enjoyed from back then still hold up. It's my experiment of very fake awards with the power of hindsight, culturally and with a sense of artistic impact on the industry over the successive years. The Oscars for 2020 movies were overwhelmingly dominated by Nomadland, Minari and The Father, most of the films with nominations were heavy in drama.
What the F is going on!?! Part One: The Big Board
In the last few weeks, current events here in the United States have gone a bit wild, and as a cinephile/politics junky I couldn’t help...
2024 at the Movies
My tradition of catching up with movies in the following summer remains intact, here are my top-20 movies of 2024. In other years I tend...
Five Years Later: 2019 Movies
This has become more than just a habit. Every year I take on the exercise to take a look back at the movies from five years prior to see...
2023 At the Movies
A Washington Post article previewing the fall movies of 2023 highlighted the especially “surreal" or “weird" trend of movies that came...
Five Years Later: 2018 Movies
Every year, I take on the exercise to take a look back at the movies from five years prior to see what held up, what movies have grown on...
2022 At the Movies
This really was a solid year for movies. I’m sure Nope and The Way of Water will end up near the very top of my favorites for the decade...
Five Years Later: 2017 Movies
It's another year of my annual project of looking back five years to see how well the movies have held up and to hunt down those that...
2021 At The Movies At Home
Every year it takes me until about halfway through the following year to make it through the new movies that I am interested in hunting...
