When it comes to movies I tend to have the taste of 40-year-old woman from the suburbs. I’m happy to straddle the fence between big budget ensemble comedies and art house indies you have to go to a special movie theatre to see. This year, even though I feel like all I did was watch...
Top 10 of 2015: John McShane
Magic Mike XXL There are at least a dozen movies I didn’t see this year that probably could have been swapped into this list if I’d seen them, but I’m certain that nothing had a shot at supplanting this at the top. Multiple orders better than the original, they somehow improved on it by dropping...
Top 10 of 2015: Sarah Winshall
4 THEMES in 11 FILMS & 1 LIST of 10 FILMS THE PAST Some of the best movie-going of 2015 resulted not from recent films at all but from long overdue, highly anticipated, delayed releases of a couple of movies made in the 1970s. A Poem is a Naked Person, filmed from 1972-1974 was not released...
Top 10 of 2015: Josh Fu
Josh Fu’s favorite movies from 2015, ranked 1 to 10: 1. It Follows 2. The Hateful Eight 3. Carol 4. Anomalisa 5. Bridge of Spies 6. Mad Max: Fury Road 7. Sicario 8. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 9. Mustang 10. Ricki and the Flash
Top 10: Alison Dawn Scott
Out of The Laboratory comes a Top 10 unlike any other: Alison Dawn Scott counts down the Top 10 Scientific Journal Articles of 2014 that should be made into sci-fi films. – Eds. 10. Theshocking predatory strike of the electric eel This paper demonstrates how “high-voltage discharges of electric eels remotely activate motor neuron efferents in...