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By  Will Silver, on February 13, 2012, 5:20 am It’s that time of year again! I honestly haven’t seen a good majority of the big films released this year, but it’s already mid-February so I figure I should get this up before nobody cares. Below is my list of the 2011 films that have left an impact on me, either good or bad.
My usual end-of-year list disclaimer: I have a serious complex about trying to categorize and list my top movies of the year, therefore I refuse to do so. Lists are arbitrary and mean next to nothing to anyone but the one who makes them, so if the list means nothing to me, then it becomes worthless. I’ve tried to figure out a good way to do this so that films I truly enjoyed could get a year-end nod without me having to break anything down and decide any sort of order. The list is completely subjective and I purposefully called this “Favorite Films” so that the focus is on my enjoyment and not simply filmmaking quality. So with that said, here’s a quick glance at my favorite and least favorite films of 2011. This is by no means definitive.
Favorites:
 The Skin I Live In
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Contagion
Forks Over Knives
Take Shelter
Thor
Midnight in Paris
Attack the Block
Honorable Mentions:
Pearl Jam Twenty
Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
Source Code
Super
Born to be Wild
American: The Bill Hicks Story
Worst:
Hall Pass
Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt
Hanna
Red Riding Hood
Choy Lee Fut
And a new category,
Most Over-Rated:
The Tree of Life
Drive
The Artist
2011 Movies I still plan to see that might be good:
Season of the Witch (Hahaha, yeah I know…)
I Saw the Devil
Another Earth
The Guard
Straw Dogs
Red State
The Rum Diary
The Descendants
Hugo
The Muppets
Shame
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
The Sorcerer and the White Snake
Wu Xia
From Up on Poppy Hill
Think I got it wrong? Wondering why a certain favorite film isn’t on the list? Drop a comment below!
By Will Silver, on January 1, 2012, 12:01 am Happy New Year everyone!
I wish everyone a wonderful upcoming year
filled with good movies, bad movies and
yes, even the ugly movies!
Things will be remaining relatively the same here,
as I continue my ongoing series reviewing every
Full Moon film & every Shaw Brothers martial arts film,
as well as all the random movies I happen upon.
I will be changing my rating scale a bit,
adding a second rating to B-Movie reviews so that
their entertainment level is more readily apparent.
Anyway, Happy New Year everyone!
By Will Silver, on December 11, 2011, 5:20 am OK, here’s some more awesome links from awesome sites around the web! Enjoy!
First off, my old buddy Uncle Jasper has started up a blog of his own called, Shit on my iPhone!
If you read his film reviews here, you’ll know he can sling words with the best of them,
so do yourself a favor and check out his shit.
Michael at Kiai Kick! has a great review of the Chang Cheh film, Five Shaolin Masters!
It’s gonna take me a long, long time before I get to review this one in my chronological series
so definitely check out Michael’s take in the meantime.
And speaking of the Shaw Brothers, 104-year-old Run Run Shaw is finally retiring!
He’s been working in TV for a while, but those days are now over.
So long Run Run, you and your brothers were responsible for creating and shepherding
the martial arts film as we all have come to know it.
Kai at Man, I Love Films has a fun list of graphic novels that would make great movies!
Killing Joke and Dark Knight Returns would be awesome!
Fitz has some early posters for Tarantino’s next film Django Unchained!
If you’d like to read an opposite but well-written opinion of Super 8, look no further than Fernby Films!
Dangerous Meredith has a great write-up surrounding the commentary on
The Replacement Killers, Chow Yun-Fat’s first American film. It features
some great insights on the East/West filmmaking clash and is recommended
to anyone interested in such things.
That’s all folks!
By Will Silver, on December 4, 2011, 5:20 am OK, here’s some more awesome links from awesome sites around the web! Enjoy!
Doug Tilley has a great feature on Daily Grindhouse called No-Budget Nightmares.
I found out about it from the podcast version he does with Moe from Drunk on VHS, which I highly recommend.
Here’s Doug’s latest written entry into the series, a piece on Nightmare Asylum!
How’s that for a shitload of plugs in one plug?
Paragraph Film Reviews has a look at the Hong Kong flick that inspired The Departed, Infernal Affairs! I still haven’t seen it.
Top 10 Films has a rep for awesome and inventive lists and their latest Top 10 Christmas Films of the 1980s continues the trend.
Screened.com gives us a rundown of how to make sure you get to see the new Dark Knight footage if you’re so inclined.
Awesome genre blog Varied Celluloid kicks off another Kung Fu Christmas with a look at Militant Eagle.
And here’s a cool video from around the time of The Empire Strikes Back release
where some initial, and different, plans for the prequels are slyly revealed. It’s neat.
That’s all folks!
By Will Silver, on November 20, 2011, 5:20 am Well, it had to happen. I missed last week’s links and I almost missed doing this one. It’s hard to keep it up.
Rodney at Fernby Films gives a great review of a film I’m quite excited to see: Attack the Block!
While searching around the web for other’s impressions of Drive, I ran into this. It’s pretty impressive.
Anomalous Material whips up a Top 10 list of Lars Von Trier films.
Haven’t seen them all, but I would have included Manderlay and Dancer in the Dark would top the list.
Looking forward to seeing Melancholia soon!
Michael at Kiai-Kick! busts out the classic Jackie with a review of one of my old favorites, Armour of God!
Supposedly Jackie’s making another of these and I hope it lives up to the legacy of the series so far!
The Daily Grindhouse has a great list of titles on Netflix Instant that are definitely flying
under the radar of most viewers! If only I had more time, I’d watch them all!
That’s all folks!
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