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TOP 10 FILMS FROM 1999

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Every so often a year comes around that manages to produce a huge number of great film. There are always great films that come out every year, but it's not every year that pumps out classic after classic. In my eyes, the year 1999 is one of those years - a year that has proven retrospectively to be a year that continues to reward cinephiles with a string of great movies. Here's a list of some of my favourites. Honourable Mentions: Magnolia (MA15+) eXistenZ (M) 10 Things I Hate About You (PG) The Green Mile (MA15+) The Sixth Sense (M) South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (MA15+) Fantasia 2000 (G) 10. Toy Story 2 (G) I will never understand why some people dislike this film. It's incredibly rare that a perfect trilogy comes along (I know Toy Story 4 is a thing, but it sort of exists outside of the original three films), and so it's important to acknowledge all three of those films that make up such a landmark trilogy in cinema. Toy Story 2 is underrated as hell, and going

RANKED: Christopher Nolan

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A little while back I did a ranking of all of Christopher Nolan's films over on the Instagram page, starting with his 1998 debut film Following all the way through to Tenet. There was so much more that I wanted to say about all of his films and their placements in that list that I wasn't able to on that platform, so I thought it would be a good idea to revisit that list in more depth here. Bear in mind, this is my list; not your list, not the list, just my list. If you disagree with some of my placements I would genuinely love to hear about it, so feel free to drop a comment below or hit up the Instagram page to discuss Nolan films with me. So here is my ranking of all of Christopher Nolan's feature films in order of worst to best. 11. Tenet (2020) Tenet isn't a terrible movie, but it does have problems. Problems that are bigger than the fact that some people have issues hearing some of the dialogue in the audio mix of the film (I have heard reports that this sound issu

APRIL 2021 MOVIES RECAP

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 You know the drill - here we go! Freddy Got Fingered (2001) I needed to do some research to really understand who Tom Green even was before I watched Freddy Got Fingered , because he was incredibly popular for maybe three or four years in the late 1990s before he completely disappeared from popular culture. Even just the existence of this movie proved this point; I don't know anyone who still talks about this movie. And let's get this out of the way - it's awful. I mean, really bad. But I found myself laughing at it pretty much all the way through, because behind the thick veneer of just how awful this movie is, I could tell that Tom Green was laughing maniacally at the fact that a studio gave him this much money to make a movie this terrible. If you can understand the movie on that level - that it's almost like Tom Green lost a bet and had to make this movie - then you will enjoy Freddy Got Fingered on a much deeper level than just trying to enjoy it on face value.  T