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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Unexplained List: For the Love of Terriers

MOVIES
50) Reign of Fire
49) Zoolander
48) The Bourne Identity
47) Borat
46) Ocean’s Eleven
45) Death to Smoochy
44) Guardians of the Galaxy
43) Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
42) Knives Out
41) Wall-E
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FILMS
50) An Inconvenient Truth
49) Stranger Than Fiction
48) Whiplash
47) Sorry to Bother You
46) Exit Through the Gift Shop
45) Lars and the Real Girl
44) 21 Grams
43) Challengers
42) The Prestige
41) Cecil B. Demented
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Unexplained List: Orchid Explosion by Fournier

BAD
43) The Last Duel
42) House of Gucci
41) King Richard
40) Venom: Let There Be Carnage
39) Spiral
38) Wonder Woman 1984
UNMEMORABLE
37) The New Mutants
36) The Matrix Resurrections
35) The King’s Man
34) Eternals
33) The Green Knight
32) Minari
31) Black Widow
30) Bad Education
29) Old
28) West Side Story
27) I Care a Lot
26) Army of the Dead
25) Luca
24) Onward
23) Sonic the Hedgehog
22) The French Dispatch
LIKED
21) Jungle Cruise
20) Trial of the Chicago 7
19) Mortal Kombat
18) In the Heights
17) Shang-Chi
16) The Gentlemen
15) Emma.
14) Dune: Part One
13) The Suicide Squad
12) Pig
11) Bill & Ted Face the Music
10) Free Guy
9) Nobody
RECOMMEND
8) Spider-Man: No Way Home
7) Tenet
6) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
5) Promising Young Woman
4) Palm Springs
3) Birds of Prey
LOVED
2) Judas and the Black Messiah
1) Cruella

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Explained List: The... Ugh... Aughts

In all this time, we really haven't figured out a better term for the first decade of the 21st Century? But I digress. The New York Times list of the best movies of this century's Q1 got me thinking about making my own list. Step 1 is breaking it down by decade like I did for the 2010s. I know this century didn't begin until 2001, but I did the other decade 2010-2019, so this time it will be 2000-2009. Whatever. It's my list, I'll do what I want. Just like before, we're splitting this list into movies and films. (NOTE:  Thirteen Days is #13 and 21 Grams is #21 by sheer coincidence, not planned)

MOVIES
25) Reign of Fire
24) Zoolander
23) The Bourne Identity
22) Borat
21) Ocean’s Eleven
20) Death to Smoochy
19) Wall-E
18) Kill Bill, Vol. 1
17) Big Trouble
16) Anchorman
15) X2: X-Men United
14) Hot Fuzz
13) Thirteen Days
12) The Incredibles
11) The Transporter 2
10) Zombieland
9) Mean Girls
8) Spider-Man 2
7) A Knight’s Tale
6) Catch Me if You Can
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FILMS
25) Stranger Than Fiction
24) About Schmidt
23) An Inconvenient Truth
22) Lars and the Real Girl
21) 21 Grams
20) Best in Show
19) The Prestige
18) Cecil B. Demented
17) Big Fish
16) Secretary
15) Little Miss Sunshine
14) Bowling for Columbine
13) The Invention of Lying
12) Moon
11) The Departed
10) Juno
9) Inglourious Basterds
8) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
7) City of God
6) Adaptation.
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Monday, July 7, 2025

My AFI Top 100

In their Wizard of Oz episode, the podcast “Unspooled” suggested taking the AFI Top 100 and making your own list. I can’t resist making a list. They’re doing the updated 2007 list, so I worked from that. Having started working through this list in 1997, I have seen all 100 as of October 3, 2024.

Then I realized there’s a bunch of movies on 1997 list I really like, then I was, like, ugh, guess I'll just watch all the movies from both lists, so I folded them in to make my own Top 122 list of all the movies I’ve seen on both lists combined. It’s formatted like it so because of where I copied the lists from, but it works nicely to make the distinction. ALL CAPS is from the 2007 list, and the ones not in caps are movies left off the 2007 list.

I’m sure I’ll adjust this list the more I think about it, but here goes.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Unexplained List: For All Seasons

2025 - Sinners
2024 - Challengers
2023 - Poor Things
2022 - Everything Everywhere All At Once
2021 - Cruella
2020 - Promising Young Woman
2019 - Parasite
2018 - Black Panther
2017 - Get Out
2016 - Moonlight
2015 - Room
2014 - Predestination
2013 - Gravity
2012 - Queen of Versailles
2011 - The Descendants
2010 - Inception
2009 - Inglourious Basterds
2008 - The Dark Knight
2007 - Juno
2006 - Children of Men
2005 - The Transporter 2
2004 - The Incredibles
2003 - Finding Nemo
2002 - Adaptation.
2001 - Amelie
2000 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Monday, May 26, 2025

Unexplained List: Missions: Impossible

8) II
7) VIII
6) VII
5) III
4) V
3) VI
2) I
1) IV

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Saturday, May 10, 2025

Unexplained List: MCV

10) Gorr
9) Dar-Benn 
8) Zemo
7) Namor
6) Sentry
5) Vulture
4) Scarlet Witch
3) Loki
2) Thanos
1) Killmonger

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Friday, April 11, 2025

Unexplained List: UFL to NFL

10) McLeod Bethel-Thompson
9) Nick Novak
8) Quintin Demps
7) Josh Johnson
6) Graham Gano
5) Matt Bryant
4) Jim Fassel(‘s son)
3) Josh McCown
2) Steven Hauschka
1) Sean McVay

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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Unexplained List: Best Picture? Really?

YearBest PictureBetter Picture
2025Anora
2024Oppenheimer                       Poor Things                                       
2023Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
2022CODA
2021Nomadland
2020Parasite

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Unexplained List: Felix

10) Trent Lott
9) Trent Easton
8) Trent Fernandez
7) Trent from Angel One
6) Trent (filmmaker)
5) Trent Dilfer
4) Trent
3) Trent Lane
2) Trent Reznor
1) Trent Maddock

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