Brent’s Top 10 Movies of 2018
If you’ve been following me on social media for a while, then you know that every year I rank my favorite movies. This is actually the 10TH YEAR I'm doing so (man, we're all getting old). I started by making tacky photo-shopped images with my favorites back in 2009,...
read more‘Upgrade’ Review
As I try to remind myself every year, the best movies I'm likely to see are ones I hadn't even heard of beforehand. The movies that sneak up on you and smack you upside the head with surprise and startling originality. Upgrade is one of the first movies to do that for...
read moreTop 10 Movies of 2017
Another year is behind us, so that means it’s time for everyone’s ‘my favorite ________ of 2017’ lists. This year, I’m folding to peer pressure and changing the ‘top 8’ favorite movies to ‘top 10’ because honestly, there were too many awesome movies and I originally...
read moreFall 2017 Update!
Hey, this blog still exists! It’s been about half a year since I’ve written anything up, and it’s been a bussyyyyy time in my life. Got married, started a new position and found out I’m going to be a father next spring! Amidst all of those changes, I’ve still somehow...
read moreGet Out
It seems like every year in recent memory, there’s been another great new horror release from a first time director, and 2017 is no different. Last year I wrote about ‘The Witch’ from Robert Eggers and previously there was 'The Babadook’ and 'It Follows’. We’re...
read moreLogan
I’ve never been the biggest fan of the X-men movies. I look at them like I did the Harry Potter series: I’d go see the newest entry, have a fun time, and almost immediately forget about it when I leave the theater (the one exception being Matthew Vaughn’s far...
read moreJohn Wick: Chapter 2
John McClane. Jason Bourne. James Bond. Ellen Ripley. These guys (and gal) better watch their backs, because there’s a new action hero on the scene, and for my money, he could take all three of them, no problem. With 2014’s ‘John Wick’, director Chad Stahelski...
read moreSplit
Alright, it’s time to kick off 2017, and what better way to do it than a great new M. Night Shyamalan movie! Yep, I just said those words. Shyamalan has had an insane roller coaster ride of a career so far, starting with the classic ‘Sixth Sense’, followed by a...
read moreTop 8 Movies of 2016
It’s that time of the year again: time for arbitrary and subjective ‘best of the year’ lists for people to disagree with and argue over. I flirted with the idea of expanding mine to 10, but why mess with tradition? I’ve been doing top 8’s since 2009 in one form or...
read moreLa La Land
Let me start off by saying that I’m typically not a fan of musicals. I have a hard time explaining why that is, but I just don’t connect with them (the exceptions being Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera) for some reason or another. I can now add...
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