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and so it begins pages home my films the directors in character lists no one talks about oscars essays my favorite scene reviews wednesday january 21 2026 top 10 films of 2025 hello from the other side of the shadows the 2025 movie year started slow but thankfully gained steady speed right up until the end i wasn t into the big american movie events of the year but i found a ton of gold in foreign and indie films but of course number 1 could only go one way ocean waves read the full post here posted by alex withrow 12 comments wednesday february 12 2025 top 10 films of 2024 i m still here while i am fully invested in my podcast i realized it s nice to have the text list of my favorite movie from each year easier to go back and check my work this way i m back dating this post a little but these were my favorite films from 2024 read the full post here posted by alex withrow 6 comments monday january 29 2024 top 10 films of 2023 in my 2022 round up i tentatively asked if movies were back in 2023 movies were back in a way i never saw coming last year my favorite movie of the year was a film i think only 16 people have seen this year for the first time in my life my favorite film is the frontrunner to win the best picture oscar how in the world did we get here read the full post here posted by alex withrow 17 comments tuesday february 7 2023 top 10 films of 2022 are movies back are studios allowed to stop blaming covid for keeping people away from theaters was 2022 an encapsulation of where cinema is today i ll answer with a soft yes to all of the above i think 2022 was a far better year in film than the last two and i ll admit that the strength of this year gives me hope for 2023 read the full post here posted by alex withrow 21 comments thursday december 15 2022 favorite films of 2007 it just dawned on me that i began this blog in september 2007 wow does time fly and while i spend more of my movie time on my podcast i thought it be fun to circle all the way back to my refined list of the best movies released in 2007 read the full post here posted by alex withrow 3 comments wednesday august 17 2022 favorite romantic comedies i love highlighting intense films movies that are emotionally brutal devastating gut wrenching you get it i ve done that for years on this blog and now continue to do on my podcast because i tend to focus so much on the films that capture the dark sides of human nature it s fun to occasionally do a complete 180 and discuss a handful of films that bring pure joy read the full post here posted by alex withrow 6 comments tuesday may 10 2022 the departed commentary the two things i miss most about blogging regularly is first and foremost being able to engage with the wonderful readers in the comment section hi and the other is drafting my no one talks about posts the no one talks about posts take a long time to research and write but now that blogger has destroyed their interface and made it absurdly complex to post content with a lot of pictures i ve all but abandoned that very fun blog series read the full post here posted by alex withrow 3 comments thursday february 10 2022 top 10 films of 2021 we made it through another year of pandemic cinema in general i think the industry found its footing a little better following a disastrous 2020 movie year here are some of my favorites i saw in 2021 what were some of your favorite movies from last year read the full post here posted by alex withrow 13 comments friday september 17 2021 favorite a24 films when i started podcasting in july 2020 i promised myself that i wouldn t let this blog fall off but it only took me a few weeks to learn that podcasting and blogging with equal weight is not something i can sustain the main downside to this is that i m not regularly talking to the many amazing people i ve met on this blog people whose movie opinions i highly respect read the full post here posted by alex withrow 9 comments monday february 1 2021 top 10 films of 2020 who could have guessed that when we sat down in the theater to watch the invisible man or bad boys 3 or the lodge that it would be the last time we would set foot in a movie theater in 2020 while covid kept theaters closed and pushed the release dates of several notable films there was some movie gold to be found below are the 10 films i liked best from the mad shit year that was 2020 read the full post here posted by alex withrow 16 comments thursday november 12 2020 top 58 things i love about the wrestler that no one talks about darren aronofsky s the wrestler is one of my favorite character studies of the last 15 years it remains my favorite film of 2008 and one of my favorites of that decade and while this may be aronofsky s most realistic and grounded film there s still a lot to explore here i recently talked about this movie on my podcast link at the bottom of this post and i thought it d be fun to share some of my thoughts here as well read the full post here posted by alex withrow 4 comments monday september 28 2020 top 10 films of the 2010s well it s about damn time i post my top 10 of the 2010 decade pro tip recording and editing your own podcast takes up a shit load of personal time but i told myself when i started that podcast that i wouldn t neglect this blog and my followers blogs so apologies for the brief absence but i m so excited to see what everyone has been writing lately on to the list i should have published this in january but the good news is that these movies will never get old to me anyway i remember the first time i saw each of these movies so vividly a few of them even changed how i approach my own filmmaking this was a good decade for film perhaps not as influential as the two decades prior but a solid 10 years for films all the same here were my favorites and if you posted your list and i missed it please let me know so i can check it out read the full post here posted by alex withrow 20 comments tuesday july 21 2020 podcast what are you watching well it looks like i m just another asshole who started a movie podcast for two years my best friend and filmmaking partner nick dostal has been on my ass about starting a film podcast i rejected the idea for all the obvious reasons market saturation and time commitment being two major ones but my biggest drawback was that i didn t want nick and i to just talk about how cool movies are if we were going to talk movies then we were going to talk about the genuine emotion we feel toward them why is terminator 2 one of nick s top 10 films of all time why will i weep every time i watch phantom thread sure we love these movies as movies but beyond that these films and countless others have touched us deeply for incredibly personal reasons so my number one rule for the podcast was that we always tell the truth and if nick and i ever have something personal to say about a movie we love then we should seriously consider disclosing it read the full post here posted by alex withrow 54 comments thursday july 9 2020 oscars breakdown best actor the only issue with watching every movie that has won an oscar for acting best picture director and screenplay is that by the time i m ready to actually write about the category i m burnt the hell out i apologize for the delay with this post and promise the remaining oscar posts will come much sooner i hope you enjoy my thoughts on best actor and please share yours as well read the full post here posted by alex withrow 15 comments tuesday june 2 2020 oscars breakdown best actress i ve been taking a little blogging break because hell i don t know it seems weird to write about movies when so many american streets look like fucking war zones i ve found a little comfort among the chaos by diving into old oscar flicks please feel free to share your thoughts and please be safe out there wherever there is read the full post here posted by alex withrow 17 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom welcome to and so it 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