A quarter of the year is officially over.  Amazing how time flies.  We’ve officially passed through the garbage months of cinema and are heading full speed into the summer movie season.  I’ve seen 43 movies this year and, surprisingly, we’ve gotten some really good movies these past couple months, a few that may even end up on my year end list.  Let’s look at the best of 2016 so far and take a glimpse at to…

As the 2010’s have officially come to an end, I will be looking back at each cinematic year to give a personal decade retrospective of the best movies and performances of each year.  I will break down my Top 10 movies of each year, along with my favorite performances from that year.  I will also be listing my favorite’s from each genre, like Best Animated Movie and Best Action Movie, as well as best of…

Good ol’ best lead actor.  Every single year, you cause me so much pain.  So many great actors put out so many great performances, narrowing it down to five is always a struggle.  This list could easily change within a week or so, but, as of now, these are the five best lead actor performances or 2016.     5 – LEWIS MACDOUGALL as CONOR in A MONSTER CALLS There were a number of great child performances…

2016 is without a doubt the strongest year for actresses this decade.  This was the hardest list for me to make, as I hated not including some of these great performances.  But, I believe that these five performances are the absolute best of 2016.  Here are my picks for the best lead actress performances in 2016.     5 – MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD as MICHELLE in 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE  As I’ve said in a few columns…

Continuing to look at the best performances of 2016, I am now going to look the best supporting actor performances of 2016.  This is always a loaded category and this year, it is no different.  What I loved most this year, and you will see it in my choices, is the breakout performances.  Whether it is from newcomer to the scene or a veteran waiting to for their big break, we got a slew of…

As we continue to look at the best movies of 2016, I am going to countdown my favorite scenes of 2016.  This list was almost impossible to make, as there were a number of scenes I could have picked from the 160 plus movies I saw last year.  But, when thinking about, these were the scenes that truly blew me away in 2016.  So here we go, my ten favorite scenes of 2016. Also, SPOILERS…

With so many movies comes so many characters, and in 2016, we got a lot of great ones.  This was not an easy list to make, as I could have done a top ten or twenty per gender.  But, I like to challenge myself and decided to narrow it down to five male and five female.  Here are my picks for the best characters of the 2016 movie year.     MALE CHARACTERS   5…

As 2016 comes to a close, it is time to start counting down the best movies of 2016.  This will be a number of lists looking at the best movies and performances of the year, as well as looking at the best of specific genres. I am going to kick this off with looking at the comic book movies of 2016.  Once again, we got a number of comic book films this year.  Six to…