Top 5 Essential Baseball Movies
With Opening Day in the rearview mirror and the fresh excitement of a new baseball season upon us, it seems only natural to take the bull by the horns and look back on some of the best and most essential…
Top 5 Coming of Age Movies
With the impending release of Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!!, a spiritual sequel to his classic coming of age movie Dazed and Confused, it seems appropriate to reach back into the formative years of life to look at five movies widely considered…
Top 5 Self-Directed Actors
Acting is hard. Directing is hard. It would seem the combination of the two would be near impossible. However, throughout the long and storied history of cinema, there have been handfuls of great actors who have tried their hand at…
Top 5 Disney Animation Renaissance Films
With the impending release of Disney Animation’s latest output, Zootopia, there is a buzz this movie can repeat the success of recent Disney Animation films and also take the horrible taste The Good Dinosaur left behind. In today’s movie environment,…
Top 5 Wuxia Films
The Chinese movie genre “wuxia”, meaning “martial or chivalrous hero”, has been getting a lot of attention as of late. I recently reviewed the 2015 festival film darling The Assassin, the famous Taiwanese director Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s fabulous take on the genre. And…
Top 5 Romantic Comedies
In celebration of the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, it seems only appropriate to have our Top 5 reflect the most famous of Hallmark co-opted Catholic celebrations. We’ve asked fabulous and prolific contributor, Alexis Johnson, to give us her Top 5…
Top 5 Minor Characters in The Force Awakens
One of the reasons that Star Wars is so iconic and has captured our imaginations so thoroughly is because of the fascinating characters that populated its universe. Every character, every droid, every human, and every alien, no matter how small…
Top 5 Domestic Grossing Movies of 2015
Happy 2016 everybody! 2015 has atrophied into dust and been replaced by a brand new 2016 baby. The holiday movie season is finally winding down and the numbers from 2015 are in. Last year, we used our first two Top…
Top 5 Cinematic Surprises of 2015
There have been plenty of great movies, moments, and successes of 2015. We’ve seen the soaring highs of multi-billion dollar worldwide grosses and critical darlings birthed right before our eyes. You all have you favorite movies by now and we…
Top 5 Ill-Fated Opponents of Star Wars Movies
Unless you were the big kid on the playground growing up, you learned pretty quickly to pick your battles. Same thing goes for tackling that 1 pound burger challenge at your local bar and grill/food trough restaurant. Sometimes, our eyes…