Pillion
"The pleasure you give / the pain that you bring / I'll take it all, Ray / for you are my king"
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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
Send Help
"You ever hunt?...I think I like it..."
Iron Lung
Until a few weeks ago, I'd never heard of the video game Iron Lung. Neither had I heard of the YouTube channel Markiplier, much less Mark Fischbach, whose name it bears. His feature film debut (which he wrote, directed, edited, and starred in) only came to my attention
Mercy
"You are speaking to the Mercy Court. I'm AI Judge Maddox."
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The Testament of Ann Lee
"I never / did believe / that I ever / could be saved / without giving / up all / to God."
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
"How's that?"
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We Bury the Dead
While the zombie movie refuses to die, it's certainly not thriving. In the years since the onset of COVID-19, only a handful of films featuring the archetypal monster in one form or another get released every year, and vanishingly few cause a stir. It should come as no
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Resurrection
"Before we can fool others, we first need to fool ourselves."
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2025 Wrap-Up
If you're just interested in my top ten, you can skip my preamble and other categories by clicking here. As 2026 dawns, I'm less certain than ever where this art form I love so much is headed. The financial health of the business continues to falter.
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Marty Supreme
"I have a purpose. And if you think that's some sort of blessing, it's not. It means I have an obligation to see a very specific thing through. And with that obligation comes sacrifice."
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
For the first time since the 90s, James Cameron has released two movies in the same decade.
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The Housemaid
"Juice is a privilege, and we don't drink it out of a dirty glass."
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Ella McCay
"The problem with being a tight ass is you never know when your ass is right."
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Wicked: For Good
"It's not lying. It's looking at things another way."
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100 Nights of Hero
“Nothing much was supposed to happen to me. I was supposed to get married, have children, do needlepoint, I guess, then die.”
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Nuremberg
"We are able to do away with domestic tyranny only when we make all men answerable to the law, so that it can never happen again."