Category: Favorite Lists

Ranking Star Trek

Thanks to JJ Abrams, Star Trek is back on track and relevant again. Unfortunately, it’s starting to look like Justin Lin will undo all that progress with the upcoming Star Trek Beyond, but I guess we’ll see soon. Anyway, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, I thought I’d take some time to…

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Favorite Eleven Films of 2011

Favorite Eleven Films of 2011 Moneyball The Artist The Descendants Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy The Ides of March Take Shelter Hugo Drive Midnight in Paris Super 8 Attack the Block Honorable Mentions: Warrior, 50/50, and Win Win

Favorite Six Films for Tax Day

The Untouchables (1987) Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Firm (1993) The Producers (1967) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Favorite Eleven Films of 2012

Favorite Eleven Films of 2012 Django Unchained Flight The Life of Pi Silver Linings Playbook Hitchcock  Frankenweenie Killing Them Softly The Dark Knight Rises Moonrise Kingdom Lincoln Argo Honorable Mentions: Arbitrage, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Safety Not Guaranteed

Favorite Eleven Film of 2013

Favorite Eleven Film of 2013 Prisoners  Inside Llewyn Davis  Drinking Buddies  12 Years a Slave  Much Ado About Nothing   Mud  Nebraska  The Lone Ranger  Blue Jasmine  The Place Beyond the Pines  Fruitvale Station Honorable Mentions: The World’s End, Zero Dark Thirty, and Saving Mr. Banks 

Favorite Eleven Films of 2014

Favorite Eleven Films of 2014 Birdman Whiplash Boyhood  A Most Violent Year Gone Girl  Enemy  Locke  The Two Faces of January  Nightcrawler  Frank  The Grand Budapest Hotel  Honorable Mentions: The Guest, Coherence, and The Double (I’m digging up all of my old end-of-the-year lists so that I can post them)  

Favorite Six Films for St Patrick’s Day

Favorite Six Films for St Patrick’s Day The Departed (2006) My Left Foot (1989) In Bruges (2008) Once (2007) The Guard (2011) Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) (I dare you to find a list of St Patrick’s Day movies that doesn’t include Daniel Day-Lewis, Brendan Gleeson and Jim Sheridan.)

Favorite Eleven Films of 2015

Favorite Eleven Films of 2015 (because everybody picks ten and then thinks of one more) The List: Aaron Sorkin, Quentin Tarantino, and David O. Russel will always make their way onto these lists. Trumbo gets the “movie about movies” vote and Love & Mercy gets the “movie about music” vote. Spotlight is the closest thing to…

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