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
ICYMI Tuesday: Top 10 Season
It’s Top 10 season! We’ll be posting our favorites from 2015 later this week, so stay tuned! In the meantime, here are some lists we like, unranked: The ultimate list of Overlooked films – Indiewire’s annual compendium of undistributed films, hopefully coming to a theater near you in 2016… Without fail, every year MUBI Notebook’s...
Top 10: Julia Bembenek
Top to tails, here’s the best of the year for ol’ JB. 1/ Nightcrawler Far and away my favorite of the year. Network if it was directed by DePalma, cutting straight to the creep, no bull. Great LA trawl too – always good to see the donut shop landscape displayed to its full potential. 2/...
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...
ICYMI Monday: Lists & Drinking
Evil lurks in the hearts of men, and we love watching it play out on screen. 2014 had some wacky movie moments. Gawker pulls the best of them together for our enjoyment. Who said January was a cinematic graveyard? The Dissolve pulls together some notable releases to look forward to. *** Sarah’s Links: Some insight on All...