1/14/19

Jason and Jen's TWELVE TERRIBLE MOVIES OF CHRISTMAS (2018/19)



A new tradition for Jen and I - we call it "The Twelve Terrible Movies of Christmas." Feel free to play along at home! You can make your own list or steal from ours. The rules are evolving, but the ultimate goal is to watch 12 terrible movies over the 12 days of Christmas. We like to rank them when it's all over.

Here is the inaugural list from last Christmas, 2018:

1. A Talking Cat!?! (2013) David DeCoteau [as Mary Crawford]
2. Sleepaway Camp (1983) Robert Hiltzik
3. Mac and Me (1988) Stewart Raffill
4. Solarbabies (1986) Alan Johnson
5. Mazes and Monsters (1983) Steven Hilliard Stern [as Steven H. Stern]
6. Body Rock (1984) Marcelo Epstein
7. Sharknado (2013) Anthony C. Ferrante
8. The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) Randal Kleiser
9. Love, Actually (2003) Richard Curtis
10. New Year's Eve (2011) Garry Marshall
11. Return to Oz (1985) Walter Murch
12. Mannequin (1987) Michael Gottlieb




1/13/19

Best Discoveries 2018



Chimes at Midnight  1965
Orson Welles




Roma  1972
Federico Fellini



X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes  1963
Roger Corman



Antonio Gaudi  1984
Hiroshi Teshigahara



The Blue Angel  1930
Josef von Sternberg

1/11/19

Best Films 2018


Mandy     Panos Cosmatos




Leave No Trace     Debra Granik




You Were Never Really Here 
     Lynne Ramsay




Phantom Thread     Paul Thomas Anderson




First Reformed     Paul Schrader




The Florida Project     Sean Baker




Sorry To Bother You     Boots Riley




Call Me By Your Name     Luca Guadagnino




Blackkklansman     Spike Lee





The Ballad of Buster Scruggs     
     Joel & Ethan Coen




Eighth Grade     Bo Burnham




Zama     Lucrecia Martel




Hereditary     Ari Aster




The Square     Ruben Ă–stlund



November       Rainer Sarnet




Revenge     Coralie Fargeat




Upgrade     Leigh Whannell




The Favorite     Yorgos Lanthimos




 Roma     Alfonso CuarĂ³n





Happy as Lazzaro    Alice Rohrwacher


The Best of the Rest 
The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci)
Annihilation (Alex Garland)
Western (Valeska Grisebach)
Faces Places (Agnes Varda + JR)
Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
At Eternity's Gate (Julian Schnabel)
Rat Film (Theo Anthony)
Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley)
Woodshock (Kate and Laura Mulleavy)
The Old Man and the Gun (David Lowery)
American Animals (Bart Layton)
Beuys (Andres Veiel)
Border (Ali Abbasi)
Mom and Dad (Brian Taylor)






Not For Me
Ready Player One, The 15:13 to Paris, Proud Mary, Overlord, Tag, 
Action Point, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Halloween, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Meg, Game Night, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Deadpool 2



Anitcipating
The Green Fog (Maddin) - Cold War (Pawlikowski) - High Life (Denis) - Suspiria (Guadagnino) - 
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Ross) – 24 Frames (Kiarostami) – 
Let the Corpses Tan (Cattet/Forzani) La Flor (LlinĂ¡s) – 
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Minervini) –The Image Book (Godard) – 
Bisbee ’17 (Greene) – Columbus (Kogonada) – Hal (Scott) – Shoplifters (Kore-eda)