Reading through this list, I realize the animal attacks are my jam. So many movies I have watched multiple times: Jaws, obviously, but Lake Placid and Anaconda and Deep Blue Sea... even Arachnophobia, and I really forking hate spiders. (And the original Joe Dante Piranha, not listed.)

Anyone know if Alligator is…

Oh Yellowstone. I struggled through nearly 3 seasons and as I told a friend, “Imagine Succession except it’s entirely full of soap opera cliches, and while the central family is at least as awful as the Roys, the writers seem to think they’re the good guys.”

And I am a 61 year old white dude, supposedly the core…

He had me convinced with “Bushwick,” which... still feels more like a future documentary than a scripted action movie, but which I enjoyed immensely at the time.

Also, can we discuss. I always assumed the Wilmer Valderrama character was spelled FES — you know, as in Foreign Exchange Student.

Kind of a remarkable show for it’s time. Underage sex and teenage marijuana use were taken for granted — even celebrated -- in a show that aired before te watershed (god, that term seems dated now) on network TV.

So there are 2 Brit Boxes, one domestic and one international (thanks, VPN). They both showcase British television from both the BBC and independent broadcasters, but differ slightly (the British version has more content). Some shows worth checking out: the original Tinker Tailor... with Alec Guinness; the extremely…

The daughter of the real Stonehouse has raised some issues wit the accuracy of the portrayal, but this is a bright and breezy couple of hours or so of television, with Macfadyen playing an almost implausible dumb, brittle British politician whose career burned brightly but briefly and crashed and burned in bizarre…

Given thatr King Creole is pretty much universally acknowledged as the best of Elvis’s movies, I am surprised that none of the seminal songs from that movie (the title track, Trouble, Crawfish) are included here.

Especially since you have Hound Dog, which took a Blues classic about a low-down no-good dawg and turned it…

Rolling Thunder (William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones) is better than pretty much all of these, a gruesome revenge story about Vietnam vets returning to civilian life.

Off Limits, a Saigon-set cop thriller with Willem Defor and Gregory Hines, also belongs on this list.

The still from Top Gun was all I needed. Not worth reading an article that lists it in the top 30. I didn’t watch 100 new movies in 2022, but if Top Gun was among the top 100 it was a bleak year.

As long as Patton Oswalt gets to kill an over-confident henchman with a dumb nickname, I am in.

Yellowstone is fascinating. Imagine “Succession” as a western where the family members are all exactly the same but the show thinks they’re all noble and pure.

I enjoyed 1883, though, despite the giant Tim McGraw sized hole in its middle. Wonderful performance by Elliott and by Isabel May. And I have really loved a lot…

Not sure what moreGary Oldman needs to do to get on this list.

So here’s the thing... I had never seen him in anything or even heard his name before this. And I can’t halp thinking that really helped me enjpy the show for what it is, because I found it amusing and thought he was pretty well cast.

For a guy who has made, basically, three good films, Cameron has an outsize reputation.

Also, Terminator is a better movie than T2 in every respect except budget. And Piranha 2 has aged better than True Lies.

Ok, so you hated Bourne and Bond and the Matrix movies and John Wick... what does that leave?

“Internet boyfriend Noah Centineo”

I do not know what those words mean.

I agree with most of that, or at least the underlying sentiment.

But the film is literally a contemporary of The Fabelmans and Tar... they came out within a few months of one another.

I just thought “maybe if I can get through the turgid opening half hour, interesting things will start to happen.” I mean Titanic was pretty much a snooze fest until the iceberg.

I tried three or four times to watch the first Avatar. I found it to be a turgid and uninteresting mess with a glossy overlay of color. I finally managed to get all the way through a few years back and could not believe I had forced myself to watch something so vapid.

Is there any chance that I will like the new one…