Top 5’s
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Top 5 sitcoms: #4 The Golden Girls
One of the most perfectly constructed ensemble sitcoms in television history. The Golden Girls made the world laugh for seven seasons and somehow got more fearless with every passing year. Television in 1985 was not exactly overflowing with shows built around women in their fifties and sixties living full, funny, complicated lives. The very premise… Continue reading
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My Top 5 Pro Wrestlers of the 1980s
I was just a kid watching cartoons on a Saturday morning at my grandparents house, say, in 1986. It was raining so we couldn’t go work out in the yard, so I flipped through the channels. Even with cable, there were only about 25, so it didn’t take long. I ran across something I’d never… Continue reading
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Top 5’s, Sitcom edition. #5 Mama’s Family
Loud, messy, and absolutely hilarious. Mama’s Family is the scrappy underdog of classic American sitcoms, and it has aged far better than anyone gives it credit for. You’ll be happy to know I’ve moved from movies to my favorite sitcoms. There will be many of these that are older shows that I grew up with.… Continue reading
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Top 5 Revenge Movies, #1. The Crow.
“Thirty two years later, The Crow remains untouchable. I was 16 when The Crow was in theaters. I saw it there first. Actually I was supposed to have seen one of the City Slickers movies that night, but we changed our minds when we got to the theater, because of course we did. There is a… Continue reading
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Top 5 Revenge movies, #2, Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair
One of the greatest revenge epics ever put on film. Quentin Tarantino has never been a subtle filmmaker, and Kill Bill is perhaps his least subtle film of all. It is also, arguably, his greatest achievement. Split across two volumes released six months apart in 2003 and 2004, Kill Bill is a four-hour revenge odyssey that draws from samurai… Continue reading
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Top 5 Revenge Movies #3: John Wick
John Wick does not reinvent the action film. It perfects it. There are links placed in this post to buy John Wick merchandise if you would like to support my site. If not, thank you for reading and come back often to see what’s on my mind. Nobody saw it coming. When John Wick arrived in October… Continue reading
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Top 5’s: Revenge movies #4 – Sleepers
A slow burn of a masterpiece. Sleepers earns its revenge with patience, grief, and a cast firing on all cylinders. By the time justice arrives, it hits like a freight train. If you’d like to support my site and want to watch Sleepers, I would greatly appreciate you following one of the links in this… Continue reading
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Top 5’s, Revenge movies #5. Ready or Not, A razor-sharp, blood-soaked delight
If you’d like to help support my site, and watch this movie, please check out the links within this page. We are going to be watching Ready or Not 2 soon, and this felt like a perfect transition into a new TOP 5 movie list! I’m going for a much more recent movie for the… Continue reading
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Drum Roll! Top 5 vampire movies, first place!
If you’d like to help support my site, and would like to watch this movie, please check out the links within this page. That’s right, the first top 5 list is complete! Naturally, if you know me, this means it had to be my favorite genre of movies. So I have talked about all types… Continue reading
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Top 5’s: Vampire movies #2. Let Me In. The remake that we needed.
If you’d like to help support my site, and would like to watch this movie, please check out the links within this page. Before the “remakes suck” crowd comes at me, first, let me say that I rarely like a remake more than the original. There’s only a few I’ve liked. When “Let the Right… Continue reading
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