Well, Tom Cruise’s franchise opus is finally–allegedly–over. With the release of Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning, a franchise that was almost thirty years old has come to a conclusion. Tom Cruise has put life and limb on the line with ridiculously unnecessary stunt after ridiculously unnecessary stunt to get our butts into the cinema, and it’s time for him to move on to his next … Continue reading Ranking The Franchise – Mission: Impossible
When last we met to discuss my favorite movies of the opening half-decade of the 2020’s, I mostly bemoaned the passage of time and how old we are all getting and how we keep onward towards our inevitable demise. Also, I mused that COVID-19 was, like, five years ago! Wild! It was really fun stuff. When not doing those things, though, I was counting down … Continue reading Top Ten Movies Of The Half-Decade, #10-1
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
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
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
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
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
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