Showing posts with label best of 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label best of 2013. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Erich's Top 10 of 2013

I hear a lot of great films came out in the last month or so. I look forward to seeing them sometime this Spring.

Mark Ahn's Top 10 of 2013

 2013 didn’t start off so great, but sure finished strong.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Deliciously Bad

Try, gentle readers, on this coldest of days, to warm your hands and hearts by the fiery glow of my snark. Here is my personal collection of "movie badness" from 2013 -- some of these-- plot points, performances, casting choices, what have you -- were so bad, they were thrilling.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Moments Out of Time

This has been a great year for movies, and I find myself at a bit of a loss. Usually at this time, I bemoan the lack of great movies with a frown and a groan. This year I have nothing to complain about; it has been an embarrassment of riches. I can hardly wait for our year-end, wrap-up podcasts. Here are my favorite movie moments from 2013.

Monday, December 30, 2013

My Favorite Movie Moments of 2013

2013 will go down in history as a great year for movies, and while I saw very few movies I really loved, I saw a ton of stuff that I liked a lot. Here are some of my favorite moments from the movies I liked, and even some from movies I didn't.

Monday, December 23, 2013

Riske Business: Great Performances of 2013

This week, Patrick and I chatted about some of our favorite performances from the year in film that was 2013. If you’re noticing some surprising omissions it is because a) we’re saving our comments for our top 10 lists b) we have not yet seen all of the year-end releases at the online equivalent of press time (e.g. Her, The Wolf of Wall Street, Grudge Match - JK?).  Even so, here are at least 20 great performances worth calling out and recommending you see.

Monday, December 16, 2013

Riske Business: Stars That Turned a Corner in 2013

Channing Tatum, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence turned the corner for me in 2012. Before last year, I was either indifferent or mildly critical of those three movie stars. Then Channing Tatum starred in 21 Jump Street and shocked me with how natural he is at comedy. Bradley Cooper proved in Silver Linings Playbook that he can play manic quite well, and Jennifer Lawrence showed in the same movie that she might be the most charismatic star in movies today (further proven by American Hustle, where you wait in anticipation of her scenes). Here’s who I became a fan of in 2013 -- The "Tatums" of 2013.