Two absolute junk January thrillers starring actors who’ve seen better roles, and if you waited until February to watch a movie in theaters I certainly wouldn’t blame you since the old truth about January being a dumping ground for the bottom-of-the-barrel looks to be holding true this year. However, not all bad things are equal,…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Who Will Be Nominated for Oscars (and Who SHOULD Be)
Note: Each category starts off with who I think should be nominated because almost all of my picks surely won’t be, and I kind-of don’t give a damn who they actually nominate… Who Should Be Nominated for Best Actor… Runner-Up: Robert Redford, “Our Souls at Night”…A beautiful movie about regretting things when you get older and the hopefulness…
How Will Sexual Misconduct Allegations Affect Awards Season?
Alabama Liberal wonders if this year’s Best Actor winner will have to give back the award on-stage… [Update after the Golden Globes: Best Actor Winner James Franco has actually been accused of sexual misconduct IMMEDIATELY after winning. As always, Alabama Liberal calls it but nobody gives a damn because nobody’s watching.]
Movie Reviews: “The Post” and “Call Me By Your Name”
Two of the biggest Oscar contenders of 2017 didn’t get a wide release until the new year, but now you can find out what all the fuss is about. Although, for Alabama Liberal, it may be a bit overdone… Call Me By Your Name…The film inspiring critics to practically orgasm in their seats is both…
Every 2017 Movie Ranked from Worst to Best
I watched over 200 movies in 2017, and all and all it was a pretty solid year… The Worst Movie of 2017: “Get Out”…Just like I chose last year’s “Hacksaw Ridge” as the worst movie more for its ideological bent than because it was technically worse than any other movie, I’m choosing “Get Out” because…
The Best TV Shows of 2017!
Honorable Mentions: Although a little too uneven for the Top Ten, the final seasons of “Longmire” and “Halt and Catch Fire” were definitely things to seek out. As was the final season of “Samurai Jack,” which returned to give fans a proper send-off for this beloved character. And I’m downright excited to see what the Gorgeous…
The Best Books of the Year!
Truthfully, I didn’t read as many books as I’d hoped to in 2017, so this list is far from conclusive (for that, you’ll need to check out the TV and Film lists, which really might include everything made in 2017), but here are some books you may want to check out… 10. “My Favorite Thing…
The Best TV Episodes OR Scenes of the Year
What were some of the best TV episodes, scenes, or moments of 2017? Read further to find out… Runner-Up: the “Vice Principals” series finale. Even if you figured out who Neal Gamby’s real shooter was, you likely didn’t see a wedding dress, a car crash, and a tiger mauling coming. 10. “Longmire”‘s Series Finale…A show no one respects,…
The Best TV Characters of the Year
It was a very, very competitive year for quality TV characters, and this marks the first time all three of the top three have been female characters… Most Polarizing, Possibly Great Character: V.M. Varga (David Thewlis) on “Fargo” …Some hated Varga and some loved…well, at least enjoyed watching his Dickensian wit mixed with Faustian vibes. He…
The Worst TV Characters of the Year
It’s perhaps a good sign that I had trouble filling this year’s list, as maybe there are fewer annoying TV characters out there. As always, these are the characters I found most annoying on otherwise good shows rather than bad characters on bad shows… 10. Most of the major characters in “TURN: Washington’s Spies”…Spies that…
Quick Reviews: “I, Tonya,” “Shape of Water,” “The Disaster Artist,” “Downsizing,” “Jumanji 2”
Lightning quick reviews of some great movies (mostly) before I have to throw up my end-of-the-year list of reviews… I, Tonya…Not since Charlize Theron in “Monster” has an A-list sex symbol so thoroughly transformed herself in a role, but Margot Robbie mostly portrays Tonya Harding without the use of prosthetics. I also loved the breaking…
Movie Reviews: “Hostiles,” “All the Money in the World,” “Molly’s Game,” “Phantom Thread”
Hostiles…This Scott Cooper-directed Western is certainly better than his overrated last film “Out of the Furnace,” but perhaps not the second-coming of “Unforgiven” many viewers (like this one) may be hoping for. After a violent opening scene in which most of Rosamund Pike’s family is slaughtered, we soon settle into a slower rhythm in which…
“The Fact of a Body” Made Me Pro-Death Penalty, Whoops…Plus “American Fire” and “Killers of a Flower Moon”
Quick book reviews of three very different crime books… The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich…Lesnevich was an anti-death penalty advocate who found herself surprised that she wanted child-murderer Ricky Langley to die. The more she digs into the case, the more she begins to sympathize with Langley, but the opposite was true for this reviewer….