June is officially over, which means we are halfway through the 2017 cinematic year. I have seen 93 movies so far this year, just short of my goal of 100 for the first half (my goal is 200 for the whole year). I’ve seen some great films, and some not so great films, but overall, 2017 is shaping out to be a great year for movies. Here are my picks for the best movies of 2017…
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Spider-Man: Homecoming is a testament to Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios. Over the last fifteen years, when Sam Raimi debuted his original Spider-Man (2002), we have seen five Spider-Man films, which included one trilogy, one incomplete trilogy, and two different Spider-Man’s (Spider-Men?) in Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. With Spider-Man: Homecoming, we get our third version of Spider-Man, with a new actor in the red and blue spandex, new villains, and a new story. But, instead of…
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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. …
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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…
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Gru and the minions are back in Despicable Me 3, a movie that if I were seven years old would probably land at the top spot of Best Movie of 2017. But I’m not seven, I’m almost 30, and Despicable Me 3 is landing nowhere near the top of my Best of 2017 list. It isn’t going to land near the bottom either, however. In fact, I genuinely enjoyed this movie for the most part….
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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,…
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Will Ferrell is an actor who, for some reason, has a direct line to my funny bone. Not my literal one, though, because that would be weird, but my metaphorical one. I don’t know why he has this affect on me, but he does. Even his more inferior movies make me laugh. And once again, Farrell has succeeded in getting a slew of chuckles out of me in The House. It isn’t one of…
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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…
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With Baby Driver, director Edgar Wright has created something only a true master of the craft could make. This a movie that brings so many genres together, Quentin Tarantino would be jealous. It’s a heist film, action film, car film, gangster film, musical, comedy, and love story, all rolled into one, two hour epic that keeps your heart pumping and your face smiling. After a run-in with crime boss Doc (Kevin Spacey) when…
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Salma Hayek may want to start prepping her Oscar speech because she is truly remarkable in Beatriz at Dinner. This is a wonderful film about cultural differences that features two of the best performances of 2017. Beatriz (Hayek) is a holistic medicine practitioner and physical therapist. While doing a house-call massage session for one of her closest and wealthiest clients, she is invited to stay for a dinner party after her car breaks down….
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