First things first, as I always do with these Top Ten lists, I must clarify what I mean and what I am doing with the list. The list refers to directors whose work is fascinating, for better or for worse, hit or miss, because of their prestige, selectiveness with projects, or just the actual work they are doing. This isn’t a list of up-and-comers, or … Continue reading Ten Most Interesting Directors Working Today
This is an unofficial companion to the two-part essay I recently wrote on Bankable Movie Stars – why there has been a decline in the number of those types of actors, and who still currently qualifies as one. There are no numbers to quantify, or no awards to be considered. This is pure, unadulterated bias on my part, so there is no real introduction to … Continue reading Ten Actors I’ll Watch in Anything
Reports broke recently that Grand Admiral Thrawn will be the villain of the upcoming Disney+ series Ahsoka, and while unconfirmed these reports further fuelled rumours that have circulated since Rosario Dawson spoke the big bad’s name in season two of The Mandalorian. Since many of the Star Wars series under the control of the crack writing team of Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have been … Continue reading Top Ten Actors Who Could Play Thrawn
I need to put a big disclaimer at the very start here, in that I haven’t seen every movie released in 2021. In fact, I haven’t even seen every movie I have wanted to see from 2021, missing out on movies like House of Gucci and Spider-Man: No Way Home as I write this top ten piece. With that in mind, here is my Top … Continue reading Top Ten Movies From 2021
People have debated who the greatest actor of our time, of all-time, and of other times for decades now. And it is this idea of decades which inspired this top ten. Some parameters before you start reading: the top ten decades by an actor are just those, concrete decades from the “0-9” years, and not a random ten-year span in an actor’s career. Only one … Continue reading Top Ten Individual Acting Decades
As usual with my Top Tens which I post (haphazardly and irregularly), I need to start off with my rules and disclaimers for how I determined my Top Ten. For this one, I debated doing a Top Ten movies from 2020 but I honestly don’t know if I could justify doing that since over half the movies I was looking forward to from this year … Continue reading Top Ten First-time Watches of 2020
I know the Oscars are very hit or miss when it comes to the awards, and many people have complained about and praised Oscars in the past, but I love me some revisionist history, so this week’s Top Ten is dedicated to movies which I believe got short-ended come Awards night.Now, there are several reasons why a movie might have been short-ended, or screwed, at … Continue reading Top Ten Movies the Oscars Did Dirty
Movie marketing is only a part of the movie-making process that has been kicked up a notch over the course of time, and within the last 25 years, the release of trailers has increased in quality and scope. With the latest releases of Christopher Nolan’s trailer for his upcoming Tenet, which have already undergone microscopic examination by cinephiles everywhere, I decided to have a look … Continue reading Top Ten Movie Trailers (2010s)
With all the re-watching of movies happening during self-isolation and social distancing, it’s inevitable that at some point there will be a movie series marathon at some point. While some series are more beloved and renowned than others, within each series there are great movies as well. Now, when we talk about sequels for the purposes of this list, we are not necessarily talking about … Continue reading Top Ten Movie Sequels
With the social isolation and social distancing a necessity in this quarantined world, I’ve been going for lots of walks, and of course I will usually put on my headphones and listen to music on these walks. Sometimes I’ll put on my Movie Soundtrack playlist, which has inspired today’s Top Ten Movie Themes. Note that this is not the top Soundtracks as a whole, but … Continue reading Top Ten Main Film Themes
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