Best Movies

I haven’t done one of these in a long, long time.  I don’t have a good reason for not posting this article monthly, but I’ll make sure these keep coming every month.  This month, Netflix is coming strong, but not with big blockbusters or original content, but with indies, foreign films, and classics.  I really hope Netflix keeps this trend going, as it will allow more people to see movies that they wouldn’t normally see. …

April has become one of the bigger cinematic months over the years.  With films like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Jungle Book, and Fate of the Furious all coming out over the past few Aprils, this month seems to be the new launching point for summer blockbusters and this year is no different.  There are five really good, diverse movies coming out this month, including three superhero movies with one of them being arguably the biggest movie of…

I haven’t done one of these lists in a while.  I got caught up with Sundance in January and February was a tough month personally.  But it’s back now and it is a perfect month to bring this back.  March has become a pretty good month for movies over the years and this year, it’s a great one.  Featuring a fun little thriller I saw last year, one of the biggest movies of the year,…

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival is officially in the books.  I saw 25 movies this festival and overall it was a pretty good year.  There were some duds, but there were a number of great movies from exciting new filmmakers and great performances from some of our best actors and actresses working today.  Here are my picks for the best movies and performances of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.         BEST MOVIES…

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week and I could not be more excited.  This is my ninth year attending the festival, which is insane to think about.  Every festival showcases new and exciting voices, making way for the future of cinema.  Past festivals have given us the likes of Damien Chazelle, Ryan Coogler, and Debra Granik.  The festival shows hundreds of movies each year from every genre from all around the world. …

Well, we’re finally here.  The end of the 2018 movie year (I’m aware we’re almost half way through January, but you get it).  This final list will officially send 2018 off into the sunset.  Overall, 2018 was a really good year for movies, particularly the second half of the year.  I saw 203 films in 2018, a personal record, and with seeing that many movies, I was able to see more foreign films, documentaries, and…

Picking the best performances is a spoil of riches.  Every year, I could make a list of fifty performances that I loved.  Unfortunately, that’s not how the game works.  For this year, like I did last year, I have broken the performances down by category, much like the Oscars.  I will list the “nominees” and then pick a winner and go further in depth as to why they gave the best performance in their category. …

This is always the toughest list to make, but also my favorite to make.  Movies are comprised of many scenes and when you see as many movies as I do, that leads up to thousands of scenes I see in a year.  But these scenes are the ones that stuck with me the most throughout 2018.  Whether it was a scene that scared me, thrilled me, or one of just pure entertainment, these are the…

My picks for the films with the best technical aspects in 2018.

Every year, I take a look back at all the movies that I saw over the year, as well as think about major news headlines and stories that broke during the year, and I reflect.  What did we learn?  What did we see?  Is there a new trend brewing?  What shook cinema this year? Here are the things I learned and took away from the movie year that was 2018.          …