10 Years Later: Best Movies of 2010

2010 represents an incredibly important milestone in my film-watching journey. I was in the thick of graduate school in Pasadena where I found myself in walking distance from the newly opened ArcLight Pasadena and the arthouse Laemmle Playhouse 7, meaning that many a weekend that year was spent diving into double-features (since a movie ticket was still …

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Best Movies Discovered This Year (That Weren’t Released in 2017)

We've reached that time of the year when I enter a mad frantic dash to close out the year seeing as many movies released in 2017 as possible in order to take a stab out at Best-of-2017 list. Between that and catching up on seasonally appropriate fare, the fact is that I won't be discovering …

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The Best Meals in Movies

It's that season again, when 'Muricans everywhere (myself included) prepare to eat an obnoxiously large amount of delicious food to celebrate Thanksgiving (and officially kick off the holiday season). Frustratingly apart from a few notable exceptions like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, the season is pretty much devoid of classic Thanksgiving-themed movies. But fortunately, there are …

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