The 2020’s are half-over! To most of us, that’s probably crazy, as it signals the inexorable onward march of time and our own eventual decay. I was born in 1980; I still view events from the early 2000’s as “probably, like, ten years ago”. So to figure that 2020–the dreaded year 2020, home of COVID-19!–was HALF A DECADE AGO is astounding. It was January 2020 … Continue reading Top Twenty Movies Of The Half-Decade, #20-11
With the sing-song episode left in the rearview mirror, I worry I have nothing left to look forward to except a season-and-a-half of episodes which I’m told are not very good. But I endeavor to finish the series and move on, so here we are! We kick things off, as we so often do, with Buffy out at nighttime in a cemetery. She doesn’t appear … Continue reading Bunnymania!: A BTVS Retrospective, S6 E8
Read between the lines with Stew, Neil from the We Needed Roads podcast and Marie from Two Girls, One Reusable Cup as they look back at this Jean-Claude Van Damme action picture from the 1990’s! For more from We Needed Roads, click HERE! For more from 2 Girls 1 Reusable Cup, click HERE! Continue reading Episode 128: Timecop
Okay, here is the episode I keep hearing so much about, so let’s get into it. “Once More With Feeling” kicks off with an old-timey opening credits with the characters faces transposed over an image of the moon while their actor names are in a red, sitcom-y font next to them. The song that plays is even a jingly bastardization of the typical Nerf Herder … Continue reading Mustard!: A BTVS Retrospective, S6 E7
Matt Fresh from Stand N’ Watch is back in the Order to discuss the Tom Hanks gangster picture, Road to Perdition. For more from Matt, click HERE! Continue reading Episode 127: Road To Perdition
John from The Pint: A Pop Culture Podcast is finally back to talk a movie he had never seen before, Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer! For more from The Pint, click HERE! Continue reading Episode 126: Snowpiercer
Anthony from We Have Issues joins The Order this episode for our look at a movie that was never actually released! For more from Anthony LaFauci, click HERE! Continue reading Episode 125: Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four
And now we are onto the Big Ten. Not, like, the football thing. The big ten as far as movies I saw that were released in 2024! I have to admit: it wasn’t the strongest year for cinema. And as I was doing a top 30, some of the films I chose in the 21-30 range felt a bit like… “THIS makes my year end … Continue reading Top Thirty Movies Of 2024: #10-1
Author K.T. Carlisle stops by the Order this episode to discuss the follow up to the first Shazam outing, Shazam, Fury Of The Gods. Does it compare to the original? For more from K.T., click HERE! Continue reading Episode 124: Shazam – Fury Of The Gods
And we are back at it! As noted previously, I ended up watching 111 new release movies from the beginning on through the end of 2024. It was far more than I thought I was going to get completed, even late in the year when I was keeping track and felt so far off my pace of 113 in 2023. But I pushed through and … Continue reading Top Thirty Movies Of 2024: #20-11
As I cruised along 2024, watching as many movies as I could, I was never sure I would hit 100 total new releases watched on the year. I want to say that at some point in October, I was only up to 80 new releases, and it just seemed unlikely I was going to get through enough new films in the last two months–the months … Continue reading Top Thirty Movies Of 2024, #30-21
And we are back to finish what we started! When last we convened, I counted down the first half of my Top 20 movies I watched for the first time ever in 2024. That is a list 123 motion pictures long, and it didn’t count movies that came out in 2024… they are getting their own list later this month. But out of 123 flicks, … Continue reading Top 20 First Time Watches Of 2024 – #10-1
It was my goal to watch 200 movies for the first time in 2024, and it is fair to say that I hit that target resoundingly. As of this writing, I am at 231. That is, 108 new releases from 2024 itself, and 123 other first time watches. Today, we are going to look at the best of the latter of those figures: the movies … Continue reading Top 20 First Time Watches Of 2024 – #20-11
Brian from Sonic Cinema joins The Order this episode to discuss the highly divisive MCU outing, The Marvels. Will he and Stew be on the same page? Or will there be disagreements a’plenty? For more from Brian, click HERE! Continue reading Episode 123: The Marvels
Before we reveal my top movies of the year, let’s take a look at some of 2024’s worst offerings. Whereas I am going to do a Top 30 of my Best Of The Year, I’m only doing a Top–well, “top”, such as it is–Ten of my worst flicks of 2024. But that’s for a pretty good reason: when you look at stuff mass released commercially, … Continue reading The “Top” Ten Worst Movies Of 2024
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