Best Movies

Happy Fourth of July, folks!  In honor of our great nation’s birthday, I am going to countdown the best movies that make us scream, “America, Fuck yeah!”.  These aren’t the best movies about America or the best movies about great moments in American history.  No, these are the movies that are the equivalent to the explosive fireworks we watch on this day.  These are the movies that you watch while eating a gluttonous amount of…

Netflix has a lot of original content coming out this month, along with some Oscar hits and a Star Wars flick.  Here are my picks for the best movies coming to Netflix in July.   You can see the full list of movies and shows coming to Netflix in July right here.       5 – PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002) Adam Sandler has become a cinematic joke as of late.  Since around 2010 until now,…

Much like June, July is a loaded month for movies.  We get another MCU movie, the end of one of the finest trilogies of all-time, a hypnotic horror movie, and Christopher Nolan’s latest.  Here are my picks for the best movies coming out in July.       5 – A GHOST STORY (David Lowery, July 7) I saw A Ghost Story in January at the Sundance Film Festival and it is still a movie I think about…

There have been some iconic cars throughout the cinema’s life.  Some of them are cars people can actually drive, some of them fly.  Whether it was used in a high-speed pursuit or to go back in time, cars have lived in movies forever.  So in honor of Cars 3 coming out this weekend, here are my picks for the best movie cars.     5 – ASTON MARTIN DB5 from GOLDFINGER (Guy Hamilton, 1964) James Bond is the…

Where as May was a relatively lackluster month for movies, June is as good as it gets.  This is the perfect summer movie month.  We get a great combination of big budget franchise films and small indie movies, including my favorite comedy of the year.  Here are my picks for the best movies coming out in June.         5 – THE BIG SICK (Michael Showalter, June 23) I had the pleasure of seeing The Big…

When you think of a movie star, who do you think of?  George Clooney?  Brad Pitt?  Matt Damon?  They’re fine and all, but the definition of a movie star is Tom Cruise.  Since breaking out in Risky Business (1983), Cruise has been one of the most consistent and entertaining actors in Hollywood, starring in a wide range of films from big budget blockbusters to Oscar nominated dramas.  This weekend, Cruise stars in the latest Mission: Impossible film, Mission: Impossible: Fallout,…

This week, Wonder Woman is released and it could be argued that it is one of the most important comic book movies ever released.  Firstly, the DCEU has a lot riding on it, especially after last year’s debacle of Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad, both of which were critical disasters and underperformed at the box office.  But more importantly, it is the first female-led comic book movie since the abysmal Catwoman (2004) (but do we really count that one?), which…

This looks like one of the strongest months for Netflix I have ever seen.  There is a great mixture of modern gems and cinematic classics, along with one of their most anticipated original movies.  Check out my picks for the best movies coming to Netflix in June.   You can get the full list of all the movies and shows coming to Netflix this month right here.         5 – OKJA (Bong Joon Ho,…

Ridley Scott is one of the best directors to ever get behind the camera.  A master of story and visuals, his filmography is as diverse as any director’s out there, making films of all genre from sci-fi, to war epic, to romantic drama.  This Friday, Scott steps back in the Alien franchise with Alien: Covenant, which is an excellent movie.  So in honor of that, here are my picks for the best Ridley Scott movies.        …

It’s Summer Movie Season, folks!  The time of the year where the cinemas are filled with sequels, super-heroes, explosions, color, and not a lot of thinking.  Though not my favorite time of the year for movies, I love going to the movies and watching some mind-numbing movie that blows up the screen.  Here are some of the titles I am looking forward to during the 2017 Summer Movie Season.  I will be breaking it down by…