Tag Archive: Movie of the Year

Nothing really stood out in a year that saw lots of the same old same old plots with an abundance of prequels, sequels and remakes.

Honourable Mention:

Maharaj: The true story of one man’s fight against a corrupted religious cult of personality in India that was led by a sociopathic demagogue in make-up. This is the only movie that tickled some, but not all, of the non-reptilian emotional nerve centres in our head.

The Beekeeper: He’s not Nobody (2022’s winner) but at least this buddy was willing to go after everyone and anyone (including the President) intent on harming old bodies and the hive everybody lives in.

The Shadow Strays: Kill Bill goes to Indonesia

See what everyone else liked at: Best at the Box Office 2024

Best Documentary 2024: Turning Point, The Bomb and the Cold War

Unlike all of the long, drawn-out Hollywood butt busters that have become the norm today, this real-life (and death) documentary is cleverly assembled to allow you to take a break and come back later while, at the same time, promising: many explosive revelations; larger than life little guys who literally saved the world; and (so far) a happy ending.

Sisu starring nobody you know

Action speaks louder than words in this Nobody and Quentin Tarantino meet the Nazis flick that is a lot further along the red spectrum than Barbie with a protagonist that is just about as dangerous as anything Oppenheimer ever created. It might also be the only movie released last year that we didn’t have to take at least one hell deserved vacation away from before plowing on to its eventual end.

Honourable Mention:   Hypnotic starring Ben Affleck

A welcome departure from Hollywood’s ubiquitous Groundhog Day movie genre that is the deepest that any sane individual (and/or me and my voices) should ever want to venture down that rabid hole.

   See what everyone else liked at: Best at the Box Office 2023

Nobody

Absolutely nobody did it better than Nobody in 2022. Technically this movie was released in 2021 but since few if any people were able to see it in the theatres and it has still not been released on any streaming service, nobody is likely to challenge our choice (but if you do, don’t call us, take it up with Nobody… if you think you can).

Honourable Mention:   Bullet Train

Kill Bill meets Snakes on Plane. A wild ride!

See what everyone else liked at: Best at the Box Office 2022

From the Archive: (Best Movie that I saw for the first time this year): Idiocracy

If you haven’t seen the movie Idiocracy, you probably won’t unless you have access to the Disney Channel. In the event you don’t have the latter, here is a synopsis (Spoiler Alert): (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=522T2axRBcU.)  From what I am seeing today, the only thing it got wrong was the year. Forget 500 years into the future, we’re almost there now!

Don’t Look Up

Best described as Borat’s Subsequent Movie Film meets Bruce Willis’s Armageddon.  This is not only the Movie of the Year, but also the movie the best captures the world we were living in over the course of 2021. If you don’t see you and everyone you know somewhere in this movie, you haven’t been paying attention (to 2021).

Honourable Mention: Untold Crime and Penalties: Slap Shot  meets The Sopranos in this Netflix documentary. The true story of the Danbury Trashers, a semipro hockey team owned and operated by a mobster.  Even if you don’t like hockey (or mobsters) you are probably going to like this flick.

See what everyone else liked at: Best at the Box Office 2021

Death to 2020:  This mockumentary from the creators of Black Mirror seems to corroborate some of what me and my voices have dismembered.  It might be the best thing to come out of 2020 since those of you who might prefer to opt out of reading our tome won’t need to wait for the movie.      

Honourable Mention:

Just Grace: True stories are better than nothing, and this one pays appropriate homage to one of the tragic subplots of 2020.  

Bombshell: Not sure how FOX reported this story that was not fake (i.e. also based on a true story).  A real looker that should have you saying, me too, I liked it (unless you are one of the bad guys).     

See what everyone else liked at: Best at the Box Office 2020

Movie of the Year:  No Winner (that I have seen)

Honourable Mention: American Factory

I stumbled onto this documentary by accident. A different kind of (culture) shock and awe, it’s an unbiased depiction of what is going on in the world today and what the future might have to look like.

See what everyone else liked at: Best at the Box Office 2019

Movie of the Year:  Green Book

A tough Italian-American bouncer reluctantly agrees to drive an African-American classical pianist on his 1962 musical tour of the segregated Southern United States.  What could go wrong there?  This unique and excellent period piece based on true events stood out from a field that was packed with all the usual re-makes, sequels and franchise formula flicks.

See what everyone else liked at: Best at the Box Office 2018

Movie of the Year:   Hacksaw Ridge

 A  war movie whose hero is saving lives as opposed to taking them. Caveat Exempt Her!  The movie opens with a touching romantic subplot; however, over 20,000 Americans died at Okinawa and only 7,000 of its 106,000 Japanese defenders survived. Hacksaw Ridge is extremely graphic and perhaps the goriest movie I have ever seen. The Japanese Army’s suicidal defense of Okinawa was a contributing factor leading to America’s decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.    

Honorable mention:

Food Choices: A little documentary with an important message. First choose to watch this doc and then decide what you can do today to: 1) save yourself; 2) save your money; and 3) save the planet. Alternatively you can choose the status quo (to trust the Food Processing Industry and the Big Drug profiteers to continue look out for you, your money and your planet).

13^th: The 13^th amendment to the American constitution abolished slavery except as a punishment for a crime. This is a convincing documentary about how that caveat was and is being exploited in support of the continued enslavement of African Americans.

What everyone else liked:  http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2016&p=.htm

Over half (29) of the top 50 movies at the box office in 2016 were either remakes or sequels of previous franchises.