All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Whereas most people rush to get their best films of the year lists out before the end of the year in question, I decided to take my time, catch up on as much...
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Are ya winning, son? ...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2023/01/the-best-games-i-played-in-2022.html
While I have done a better job of keeping up with current releases this year, mostly because the films that came out in 2022 are altogether more interesting than those that came out in 2021, i...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2022/12/the-best-older-films-i-watched-in-2022.html
Days No, that's not a typo. Here, at the end of 2022, I realized that I forgot to actually do a best films of 2021 post last year, in part because I didn't feel like I had seen enough of the ...
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Rebels of the Neon God Much like last year, 2021 was a big year for watching older movies for me, since the relative slowdown of new releases caused by the pandemic made it a pretty good...
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Inscryption Whereas last year I spent most of my time playing older games that I kept meaning to play but never got around to until the pandemic gave me plenty of time to play through an ...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2021/12/the-best-games-i-played-in-2021-non.html
What can I say, this game speaks to me Every year, I like to set myself little cultural projects. Things I can whittle away at over the course of 12 months like watching 52 films directe...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2021/12/the-best-games-i-played-in-2021-yakuza.html
A somewhat shorter list this year because I didn't see as many newer movies as usual, partly because cinemas were closed for a lot of the year (and even when they reopened I felt like I might...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2021/04/eds-top-25-films-of-2020.html
GOODBYE, DRAGON INN As someone who has often complained about how hard it can be to keep up with new releases while also watching the thousands of older films that I've been meaning to see, t...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2020/12/the-best-older-films-i-watched-in-2020.html
Hades Like many people, I found myself spending a lot more time at home this year. As the Coronavirus pandemic gathered steam in the spring, I started working from home, limiting travel, and ...
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Scarlett Johansson in UNDER THE SKIN The 2010s are well and truly over, so it's only right to take stock and try to figure our what cinema meant to me over the past ten years. During a deca...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2020/01/best-films-of-2010s.html
Every year, I spend the first nine months or so thinking that the year is, at best, a mediocre one for cinema and at worst (as was the case this year) a medium-threatening calamity, and I sta...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2019/12/best-older-films-i-watched-in-2019.html
READY PLAYER ONE, a film which will definitely not be appearing on this list A tiny bit late with this one, largely so that I could catch up on some of the big awards contenders which didn't...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2019/02/eds-top-30-films-of-2018.html
THE DEVILS (1971) In the words of Aaron Lewis and/or Scott Aukerman, it's been a while. Owing to the demands of my actual real-life job, 2018 was the year in which I wrote the least, even ...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2018/12/the-best-older-films-i-watched-in-2018.html
MOTHER!, a film which will definitely not be appearing on this list Now that 2017 is over and done with, it's time to take stock, and figure out what kind of year it has been. As is often t...
I'll be putting together my top films of 2017 list over the next day, so it's as good a time as any to look back at the older (i.e. pre-2010) movies I watched for the first time this year. I ...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2017/12/the-best-older-films-i-watched-in-2017.html
Awards season is in full swing, so I've spent most of this month frantically trying to catch up on films I missed earlier in the year, or ones that are only now starting to make the rounds. I...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2017/12/movie-journal-november.html
Even though she made her first appearance in 1941, thereby being part of the comics canon almost as long as fellow Justice League members Superman and Batman (who debuted in 1938 and 1939, re...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2017/06/film-review-wonder-woman-2017.html
One of the riskier unforced errors a film can make lies in referencing a better movie, since it runs the risk of making the audience think about what they could be watching instead. Chad Stah...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2017/03/film-review-john-wick-chapter-2-2017.html
Hidden Figures Unsurprisingly, since December coincides with the end of year list-making and awards-voting seasons, I spent most of the month frantically trying to catch up on films that I ha...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2017/01/movie-journal-december.html
There's a brand new year stretching out ahead of us, which means 12 months of films good and bad to sift through. To help sort the wheat from the chaff (except in the instances where the chaf...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2017/01/shotreverse-shot-167-2017-preview.html
SUICIDE SQUAD, a film which will definitely not be appearing on this list While 2016 was probably the worst year for mainstream cinema in ages, with a dearth of good, or even passable block...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2016/12/eds-top-25-films-of-2016.html
Chantal Akerman I'm not one for making New Year's Resolutions. On the rare occasions that I do make them, they tend to be fairly vague like "lose weight" or "keep in touch with friends more"...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2016/12/what-i-have-learned-from-52filmsbywomen.html
Only Angels Have Wings Over the last two years, I have been maintaining a movie journal as a way of keeping track of the best new and old films I watch in a given month. This is partly an...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2016/12/film-discoveries-of-2016.html
Michaela Coel as Tracey in Chewing Gum It was a turbulent year, 2016. Lots of death. Acres of sadness. Elections that took up way too much of our time and ended badly. And while there were ...
http://www.amightyfineblog.com/2016/12/eds-top-20-tv-shows-of-2016.html