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
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
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
And we are back! When last we discussed A24, I mentioned I had finally gotten up to twenty-four films from the studio that I have seen. Seeing as how that is apparently their favorite number, I decided to rank all of them. Last time, we covered #24-#13. We are back this time to get through the rest, so let’s do that now! 12. The Whale … Continue reading Stew Ranks His First Twenty-Four A24 Movies! #12-1
Fittingly, I have now seen 24 movies from the A24 film studio. It feels like I have to have seen more than that. A24 has been one of the biggest studios of the last several years. It seems as though every other movie that comes out nowadays is released by the near-ubiquitous production company. And yet, I’ve somehow only seen twenty-four of them. Weird. At … Continue reading Stew Ranks His First Twenty-Four A24 Movies! #24-13
It’s always intriguing when Hollywood gets the occasional bug up their butt to make a movie based on something I’ve long been passionate about. I mean, comic books are one thing, and cinema based on graphic novels have dominated for years now. So there’s nothing new there, but I still remember when those outing were more rare and valuable by me. The thrill of seeing … Continue reading The Iron Claw review
I’ve seen two movies this weekend that WEREN’T Godzilla Minus One, and both left me wishing I had seen Godzilla Minus One instead. The first was Silent Night, which I saw on a whim based on what time it was showing at the theater. The other was this, Dream Scenario, movie I’d been looking forward to for weeks. How did it let me down? Well, … Continue reading Dream Scenario Review
I went into “Marvel the Shell With Shoes On” expecting basically just a long form of his numerous YouTube videos. What I found was a deeply moving, often funny, sometimes tearjerkingly sad, masterpiece of a story. Marcel lives alone with his grandmother after an incident caused the rest of his family and neighbors to vanish one evening. The two share a house and soon find … Continue reading Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (2021)
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