You might be wondering how things are going on the writing front. Well, I couldn't even think of a title for this post. January 6th was...

1. The Nice Guys (2016) In a decade filled with sequels, reboots, revisits, revisions, reimaginings, and big screen adaptations of TV...

2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Mad Max: Fury Road doesn't ease us back into Max Rockatansy's post-apocalyptic world. It throws us into its...

3. Get Out (2017) Maybe its a reflection of the political and social climate of the last 10 years. Maybe its a growing dread of my own...

4. La La Land (2016) Musicals are a cinematic universe all their own. An agreed upon language exists in this world where characters...

5. A Quiet Place (2018) There must be a monster movie. Some of my favorite movies are the ones that transcend their genre and become...

6. BlacKKKlansman (2018) BlacKKKlansman is an exhilirating experience. Based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, a black police officer...

7. Toy Story 3 (2010) A moment occurs in the final scene of Toy Story 3 that was as emotionally devastating as anything I've wathed in a...

8. Wonder Woman (2017) I wanted her to be real. Gal Gadot so embodies Diana Prince in Wonder Woman that I left the cinema longing for her...

9. Gone Girl (2014) I read Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl over the course of two flights and struggled to find the last time a novel had...

10. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) I saw the original Star Wars movie at least three times during the summer of 1977. I was there for...

11. The Witch (2016) Robert Eggers doesn't call his film a horror movie. Rather, he describes it as a New England folk tale. I won't...

12. The Social Network (2010) This decade has been defined by social media. News articles are dedicated to Twitter reactions to some...

13. Winter's Bone (2010) The characters in Winter's Bone live in remote areas of the Missouri Ozarks eeking out an existence in a setting...

I tried to write this yesterday but the whole piece got deleted. I spent several paragraphs waxing philosophic about my love for film...

1. "All Your Favorite Bands," Dawes I often signed my high school classmates' yearbooks with song lyrics. Someone quoted Billy Joel's...

2. "She Used To Be Mine," Sara Bareilles (2014) Two notes. Sara Bareilles hits two notes in "She Used To Be Mine" that are so pure and...

3. "Howling at Nothing," Nathaniel Rateliffe and the Night Sweats (2015) First of all, Nathaniel Rateliffe and the Night Sweats is an...

4. "Still Into You," Paramore (2013) November 18th of this year marked 30 years of marriage for me and my wife. The first song that comes...

5. "Lost Stars," Adam Levine (2014) Also, a version by Keira Knightly Begin Again is one of the most underrated movies of the decade....