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.          …

Another year, another plethora of superhero movies. 2018 brought us nine superhero movies, which is the most that we’ve ever had in a single year. From the Black Panther juggernaut to the Spiderverse and plenty in-between, the superhero movies in 2018 were pretty good. Of the nine movies that came out, there was only one that I wasn’t a fan of, and even then I didn’t hate it. We got some of the biggest, most unique…

The 76th annual Golden Globes are happening tonight.  The Globes are a very hit and miss show in terms of how they affect the Oscar race.  On the one hand, it gives us a slight idea of how these voting branches are leaning for voting.  On the other hand, Alice in Wonderland was nominated for Best Picture in 2010, so you get both sides of the coin.  With this year’s Oscar race still relatively open, I hope…