The 2026 Oscars
It's a bizarre feeling for my two favorite1 movies of the year to be duking it out over the big night's top honors. While the past few years have seen quite a few of my top ten nominated for Best Picture, my favorite has never been
The Bride!
"I would prefer not to."
Undertone
"Don't be scared of the dark. Be scared of the silence."
Pillion
"The pleasure you give / the pain that you bring / I'll take it all, Ray / for you are my king"
Diane Warren: Relentless
...I guess we're doing this.
Crime 101
"Inhale. Exhale. You are safe. You are calm. You are exactly where you need to be."
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
"Time. Machine. Plan."
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
"It's just something we say to each other online."
"Wuthering Heights"
"Blue is always blue, no matter how small."
The Moment
"I know it's not chic to be the last one at the party, but I think…I just hate going home."
The Huntsman
Full disclosure: I know a few of the people involved with making this movie. When adapting a novel of fully realized characters and a twisty plot containing multiple red herrings, directors and screenwriters have a bunch of choices to make. Books don't translate directly to the screen, no
Best Films I Watched This Year - 2025
I watched a lot of movies last year. Fueled in part by my wife being deep in the grad school grind (Nurse Practitioner, thanks for asking), as well as the settling in of a bunch of habits, barely a day went by in which I didn't watch some