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1
Jan

2010s in Review: The Best Movies, Part 2

This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Read Part 1 here. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller) Still jaw-dropping years later, this is gold standard for action movies. And if you want to read more into it, there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Film | Tagged hulu, into the spider-verse, mad max, marriage story, martian, master, minding the gap, mission impossible, moonlight, most violent year, mother, netflix, parasite, phoenix, portrait of a lady on fire, roma, scott pilgrim, selma, separation, silence, silver linings playbook, sing street, social network, spider-man, tower, toy story 3, tree of life, wind river, zero dark thirty | Leave a comment

16
Dec

2010s in Review: The Best Film Music

Like cinematography, it seemed like there was more great film music than ever this decade. That made picking these Top 5’s harder than usual. I already wrote at length about how great Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar score was, so I’m setting … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Film, Music | Tagged baby driver, call me by your name, drive, guardians of the galaxy, hateful eight, hearts beat loud, if beale street could talk, phantom thread, popstar, shutter island, sing street, skyfall, social network, star is born, upstream color | Leave a comment

28
Nov

2010s in Review: The Best Songs, Part 4

This is Part 4 of a four-part series. Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here. Listen to a Spotify playlist of these songs here. Seryn – “Disappear” In their brief time, this Denton band produced a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Music | Tagged Amy Shark, jessie ware, kanye west, rick ross, seryn, sing street, skylar spence, snail mail, solange, spoon, st lucia, st vincent, struts, sturgill simpson, sufjan stevens, tame impala, taylor swift, usher, vampire weekend, walk the moon, war on drugs, weird al, weird al yankovic, wilco, yuno | Leave a comment

22
Feb

My Dream Oscar Ballot 2017

Of the nine Best Picture nominees this year, the only one I didn’t get around to was Fences, which I’m sure I’ll catch once it hits home video. This year, I’m including my picks for Documentary Feature, but I’ll abstain … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars | Tagged 10 cloverfield lane, 13 hours, 20th century women, allied, arrival, captain america, certain women, christine, de palma, deadpool, deepwater horizon, doctor strange, edge of seventeen, everybody wants some, hacksaw ridge, hail caesar, hell or high water, high-rise, i am not your negro, jackie, la la land, lion, lobster, manchester by the sea, moonlight, nice guys, oj simpson, paterson, popstar, rogue one, sausage party, silence, sing street, sully, swiss army man, tower, weiner | Leave a comment

25
Jan

Reactionary Tale: Oscar Nominations 2017

Biggest Snubs (in order from most to least egregious) 1. Arrival – Actress Arrival really could not have done better among this year’s nominees. It had the highest gross of any Best Picture nominee, and its director Denis Villeneuve got … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Reviews | Tagged 10 cloverfield lane, 20th century women, arrival, certain women, christine, hail caesar, jackie, kubo and the two strings, popstar, silence, sing street, suicide squad, tower, weiner | Leave a comment

20
Jan

Final Oscar Picks 2017

Just like 2016 was a year of unease, I am not very uneasy about these picks. Several of these picks haven’t picked up the precursor nods that would typically foretell a sure-fire Oscar nomination. This is likely to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged 20th century women, arrival, cameraperson, captain america, captain fantastic, civil war, deepwater horizon, doctor strange, dressmaker, elle, fences, finding dory, fire at sea, florence foster jenkins, hacksaw ridge, hell or high water, hidden figures, i am not your negro, jackie, jungle book, kubo and the two strings, la la land, land of mine, lion, lobster, man called ove, manchester by the sea, moana, moonlight, my life as a zucchini, nocturnal animals, oj simpson, paradise, rogue one, salesman, silence, sing street, star trek, star trek beyond, star wars, toni erdmann, weiner, zootopia | Leave a comment

8
Jan

2016 in Review: The Best + Worst Films

Thanks to my membership in GALECA, I got to see a lot more movies than I ever have before in my years as a critic. There were lots of hidden gems (Blue Jay) and pleasant surprises (Swiss Army Man), but … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Film | Tagged 20th century women, arrival, blue jay, captain america, christine, civil war, de palma, deadpool, deepwater horizon, doctor strange, don't think twice, edge of seventeen, everybody wants some, free state of jones, green room, hail caesar, hell or high water, high-rise, hunt for the wilderpeople, i am not your negro, jackie, la la land, lobster, manchester by the sea, meddler, moonlight, nice guys, paterson, popstar, rogue one, silence, sing street, swiss army man, tower, weiner, witch | Leave a comment

5
Jan

2016 in Review: The Best Songs

As I mentioned in the intro to my list of the best albums of the year, I listened to an obscene amount of music this year, which made deciding on my 10 favorite LPs was a herculean task. One upside … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Music | Tagged aesop rock, anderson paak, anhoni, ashanti, baaba maal, band of horses, batman v superman, beck, bruno mars, car seat headrest, carly rae jepson, chance the rapper, childish gambino, conor oberst, corinne bailey rae, crowder, david bowie, de la soul, emma stone, father john misty, frank ocean, gallant, game of thrones, hamilton, hans zimmer, hbo, islands, ja rule, james vincent mcmorrow, japandroids, jimmy eat world, junkie xl, kanye west, knocks, kyle dixon, la la land, lake street dive, lizzo, local natives, lonely island, lucre, m83, mai lan, merchandise, michael kiwanuka, michael stein, mike adams, modern baseball, mumford and sons, netflix, pink, popstar, propaganda, radiohead, ramin djawani, ray lamontagne, regina spektor, rihanna, ryan gosling, saint motel, schoolboy q, sing street, snoop dogg, solange, stranger things, struts, swet shop boys, tim heidecker, two door cinema club | Leave a comment

4
Jan

2016 in Review: The Best Albums

I overdid it this year. In my quest to hear nearly everything I could, I ended up not spending a much shorter amount of time with a lot of albums that needed to be experienced four, five, six time to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Music | Tagged a tribe called quest, american football, anderson paak, angel olsen, anhoni, barbara hannigan, beach slang, beyonce, boat drinks, bob mould, brandy clark, brian eno, butch walker, car seat headrest, carly rae jepsen, childish gambino, chris farren, conor oberst, corinne bailey rae, crowder, david bowie, de la soul, diiv, explosions in the sky, field music, frank ocean, gallant, hotelier, ian william craig, islands, ital tek, james vincent mcmorrow, jeff rosenstock, jon bullion, josh gondelman, knocks, la dispute, la la land, lake street dive, lecrae, leonard cohen, local natives, lonely island, lucy dacus, lydia loveless, margo price, martha wainwright, michael kiwanuka, mike adams, modern baseball, moose blood, nick cave, noname, nxworries, objects and objects, owen, photo ops, pinegrove, poster, radiohead, rihanna, rocket summer, rufus wainwright, sing street, solange, st lucia, struts, sturgill simpson, tegan and sara, tim heidecker, underworld, weyes blood, whitney, wild nothing, william tyler | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: sing street

2010s in Review: The Best Songs, Part 4

My Dream Oscar Ballot 2017

Reactionary Tale: Oscar Nominations 2017

Final Oscar Picks 2017

2016 in Review: The Best + Worst Films

2016 in Review: The Best Songs

2016 in Review: The Best Albums

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