Rankings

Over the last few weeks, I have been focusing on watching film series.  Whether it’s a trilogy or a six-film saga, I’m trying to run through different series a day.  I have watched a number of great trilogies, some for the first time and some were long-needed rewatches.  It is because of this that I needed to update my picks for the greatest movie trilogies ever.  This was a tough, tough list to make, but…

The first Spider-Man film bursted into cinemas in the summer of 2002 and was immediately a cultural phenomenon.  It is now 2019 and we are on our eighth Spider-Man film, Spider-Man: Far From Home.  Is it a bit much?  Maybe.  If you think about it, we have nine Batman theatrical films and the first Batman film debuted in 1966.  But I digress.  In honor of Far From Home, here is my ranking of all the Spider-Man 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,…