Back for a second year in a row, here are my top 50 shows of the year. If I left off a show you like it is probably as a personal insult to you (or because I didn't have time for it so far such as Luke Cage, The Musketeers, and Mr. Robot, because I don't watch it, or because I just don't like it nearly as much (all…

He doesn't regret Freejack though.

I thought this was something decided a while back. I know back in October at least when I was checking up on it, they had already been counting The Mummy as the first. Considering just about no moviegoers will remember Dracula Untold was even a thing and was separated by 3 years from the rest of the universe, it…

I'm really glad I gave the show a second chance after finding the pilot off putting because this weird show really was pretty great from beginning to end. Both episodes made for a perfect finale and I'm glad the show lasted as long as it did (even with the weaker final season).

Begin Again and Ender's Game were certainly watchable if nothing else.

Dawson was just unbearable to watch on The Chair and yet Not Cool was somehow even more unbearable and is probably one of the worst films I've ever seen. He's someone without the vaguest sense of talent or ability to make a movie and I don't know how anyone can stand him.

I really should give the later Harmon seasons (and maybe the earlier seasons too if I have the time) the time since they really do deserve the second look I've given to only a select few of them. It's nice to see someone else come around on G.I. Jeff, which aside from the abrupt ending was an episode I really liked. …

Jackie Chan movies and the color red.

Yep it was Tobe Hooper's followup to Poltergeist and my was that movie was a giant mess if occasionally entertaining.

I'll be closing the day and month off with Carpenter's remake of Village of the Damned and the recent film Emelie. I may not be doing this right.

And where did he get that dress, it's awful, and those shoes and that coat, jeez!

To be fair, the killer of the original was specifically targeting those having sex since she claimed that the counselors were too busy having sex to prevent her son from drowning. The sequels may not have made this so explicit, but Jason's murdering so many people having sex has an actual character justification tied…

Based on a highly scientific survey of asking my accountant parents (including one who is a CPA), the responses I got were a shrug and "the looks so stupid" so I can only conclude based on this headline that they are both secretly not accountants nor my parents.

The sequence in Dumbo is a fantastic bit of surrealism even if it basically comes out of nowhere. The Wizard of Oz isn't a dream sequence, it's a dream film. Even if we did count it, not a single moment of that film approaches the quality of Dumbo's one scene.

You gonna take advice
From somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?

I may always remember him as Radio Raheem, but he was always a welcome and reliable presence whenever he showed up including Mo' Better Blues and the tragically short lived Sirens. RIP.

I prefer to say it with the accent of a British major.

Pure Genius
This is Us
The Good Place
Grimm
Elementary

Denis Villeneuve's Arrival by a long shot.

Also on TCM overnight is the film Pretty Maids All in a Row which was long unavailable and when I finally saw it (which Tarantino put in his top 10) I was really disappointed by how poor it was. Point Blank was also disappointingly mediocre while Rio Bravo is very good (though a film created for quite jerkish reason)…