End of Year Review 2022 Part 4: The 25 Best Films (10-1)

When the year started, we were coming out of a cinematic dead zone, one that didn't seem to be catching up to reality all that quickly. The upcoming blockbusters seemed dire and the selection for the first half of the year was few and far between. Although my top 10 includes one of the first …

End of Year Review 2022 Part 3: The 25 Best Films (20-11)

This section of the list goes from musicals to murder mysteries to a horror film that bucks conventions. Each is on here for the way it expounds upon its genre to add something new. This includes a romance that builds upon the novel it is based on by making a romance more about social issues …

End of Year Review 2022 Part 2: The 25 Best Films (25-21)

I recently read that while more films were released this year, the film industry won't reach the output of a pre-pandemic world until 2024 and while 2021 was one of the worst for quality cinema, 2022 has oddly found most of its successes, at least critically in the smaller films, showing that much like 2020 …

End of Year Review 2022 Part 1: The 10 Worst Films of 2022

I remember last year when I was writing my Best and Worst film lists, I lost heart talking about the best films as they were few and far between from the bad ones I had seen that year. This year the difference is vast and the films I enjoyed felt far away from the ones …

End of Year Review 2021: The 10 Worst Films of the Year

Its been a good long while since I thought about sitting down and writing something and there is a good reason for that. My last piece, a tiny look at Disney's Jungle Cruise was all the way back at the end of August and since then the thought of writing about film, or more specifically …

End of Year Review Part 4: The 25 Best Films of 2020 (10-1)

The cream of the crop this year varies from a stark drama about the foster care system to a horror comedy but each set themselves apart in many different ways and unlike last year where I could point to one film and the year before when two films were equally great and deserving of the …

End of Year Review Part 3: The 25 Best Films of 2020 (20-11)

This year I watched more documentaries and that shows in this latest section of my list as I cover numbers 20-11 so without delay, lets get into it. 20. The Whistlers Vlad Ivanov and Catrinel Marlon in The Whistlers Romanian crime thriller The Whistlers is a story of gangsters and corrupt cops and the various …

End of Year Review Part 2 – The 25 Best Films of 2020 (25- 21)

Every year I put up the disclaimer that my list is subjective, its off the UK release schedule and some of the 2020 oscar contenders are in there because of this fact but ultimately I want to start with another disclaimer. 2020 was a good year for movies. It wasn't a good year, plenty was …

2019 In Review: The 20 Best Films of 2019

Last January I began taking my writing and this site more seriously as the year prior I had been wrapped up in a job that didn't do me any favours. This year I fully intended to commit myself to write about every film I saw and connecting with the films I loved watching. For my …

2019 In Review: The 10 Worst Films of 2019

I feel like I write this disclaimer every year and every year I get at least one objection, mainly from friends trying to mess with my weary mind but these lists (Top 10 Worst, Top 20 Best Films of 2019) follow UK's wide release schedule so if you don't see some of the 2020 Oscar …