Sabrina: Season 3

The first season of Sabrina was awesome. It came out in the Halloween season, it was Halloween themed, it had great nods to horror films and was an overall fun show. Season 2 began to feel more CW esque bu found itself toward the end. Season 3 amps the CW teen soap feel but adds in super cringe worthy "musical numbers". It was still fun at times but mind numbing more often than not. Pretty much all the antagonists work on the show, so they are the real positives. No more crap songs in season 4, and lighten up on the teen drama, go back to the basics.

The Good Place

The Good Place filled the void left by Community. Not only a void of a great sitcom on network TV, but a void of a sitcom that didn't try to be a drama, but more importantly a void left as a bonkers series not on a plane of reality. While NBC has produced several great sitcoms, The Office, Parks & Rec, Seinfeld(the best sitcom ever), and Community(my favorite sitcom ever), The Good Place was one that didn't have a weak spot, every season was great, and it didn't go on longer than it needed to. The finale was so forking good, so many emotions, a combination of joy & sadness, touching in so many ways and tied together several minor threads. This show will be missed.

The Turning

The Turning is a film with many ideas, good ideas, some cliche ideas, but overall good horror ideas that just totally missed the mark. The script is, as i mentioned, cliched but it is also such a clusterfuck of those ideas that it clutters up into a film where you don't really care for any characters, because each character seems to be only to be used as a pawn for whatever scene they need done next. I'll say one thing it has some what the fuck moments, but the execution of this film does not work at all.

The Gentlemen

Remember the early 00s? Remember thinking Guy Ritche was the shit? Remember loving Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch? Remember Guy Ritchie got Madonna's snatch and then directed Swept Away and it was crap? Then he tried to go back to his roots with Revolver and RockNRolla  before settling on mediocre blockbusters? Well now he went back to his roots again, but this time he might have just directed his best film! Sharp script, snappy dialogue, great acting, awesome violence, this is the Ritchie i have been wanting! So far with this and Underwater 2020 is off to a great start. With this we get a both a stylish crime film but a perfect dry comedy.

Underwater

William Eubank impressed me with Love almost 10 years ago, then everyone jizzed over the Signal, which was a bit underwhelming. His latest, Underwater, is pretty fucking awesome. From the very start of the film we are in the main plot, a little over 90 minutes later and it doesn't let up. I have always found the sea to be fascinating, even scary just because we can send a man to the moon but not to the bottom of the ocean, this film tackles that. It is hardly the first to do so but it is refreshing to have a film like this in theatres. Take a working class crew from The Thing of Alien, set it underwater, have em face off with Lovecraftian creatures and toss in more Alien moments  and you have a solid film. It doesn't try to be anything more than what it gives us, and i got exactly what i wanted, and it isn't just Kristen Stewart's wardrobe.

1917

1917 might just have topped Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as the best film of 2019. This could very well be the best war film since Saving Private Ryan. Sam Mendes has crafted his masterpiece. This dethrones American Beauty as his best, aswell as Jarhead as my favorite of his. Such precision went in to crafting this film to look like one take, i kept trying to find the hidden cuts, i am sure i know where they were but yowie wowie they were masked perfectly.  The acting and score are both wonderful, and the pacing is fantastic, especially for a film like this. The imagery is haunting, and at times disturbing as it depicts the horrors of war. This is an intense film, and it is truly deserving of all the awards.

Film of the Decade

Some of these changed from the year by year lists.

1. It

2. Scott Pilgrim

3. Drive

4. The Rise of Skywalker

4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

5. Lala Land

6. Guardians of the Galaxy

7. Grand Budapest Hotel

8. Moonrise Kingdom

9. The Force Awakens

10. Sicario

11. Snowpiercer

12. John Wick

13. The World's End

14.  Black Swan

15. Us

16. Kick Ass

17. Inception

18. The Babysitter

19. Free Fire

20. Split

21. Bad Times at the El Royale

22. Burying the Ex

23. Final Girls

24. Green Room

25. Perks of Being a Wallflower

Film of the Year

1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2. Ready or Not

3. Us

4. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

4. 1917

5. Joker

6. Knives Out

7. It Chapter 2

8. Doctor Sleep

9. Endgame(i'll also toss in Captain Marvel and Far From Home, cause to me MCU is just mass produced candy. Not a bad thing)

10. John Wick Chapter 3

11. The Rise of Skywalker(Tie)

12. Jojo Rabbit 

13. Villains

14. The Art of Self Defense

15. Peanut Butter Falcon

16. The Banana Splits Movie

17. Happy Death Day 2U

18. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 

19. Child's Play

20. Zombieland: Doubletap

21. Detective Pikachu

22. Shazam

23. Glass

24. Little Monsters

25. Jumanji The Next Level

26. One Cut of the Dead

27. Godzilla: King of the Monsters

28. Terminator Dark Fate 

29. Critters Attack

30. Shaft

31. Velocipsator

32. Book Smart

33. Alita

34. Under the Silver Lake

35. Dragged Across Concrete

36, The Lighthouse

37 . Satanic Panic 

38. Madness in the Method

39. High Life

40. Lords of Chaos

41. Dolemite is My Name

42. Paddleton

43. Velvet Buzzsaw

44. Parasite

45. Ad Adstra

46. Good Boys

47. Motherless Brooklyn

48. Lucky Day

49. Rim of the World 

50. Riot Girls 

I feel the need to mention El Camino. I loved it but idk if i'd ever rewatch, i feel Breaking Bad ended perfectly.

*Edit* I made The Irishman at 50: but 1917 had to be added*

TV Show of the Decade

1. Lost

2. Stranger Things

3. Mr. Robot

4. Community

5. Breaking Bad

TV Show of the Year

1. Mr. Robot

2. The Mandalorian

3. Stranger Things

4. Cobra Kai 

5. The Good Place

6. Orange is the New Black

7. Santa Clarita Diet

8. Happy

9. The Simpsons

10. GLOW

The Grudge

Ju On i always found to be one of the weaker J Horror films. I don't mind it but i have never loved it. The Grudge meanwhile was one of the more decent J Horror remakes of the 00s(fuck a duck, almost twenty years ago), but that isn't saying much as most were lackluster. When it comes to lackluster the new new remake of the Grudge takes the cake. Gone are the subtleties and jump scares and instead we welcome attempted jump scares and images that think they are grotesque. First new film of 2020 and it is off to a shitty start. Oh well atleast horror is plentiful this year to make up for this. 

Match of the Decade

1. Andrade Cien Almas vs Johnny Gargano: NXT title: Takeover Philly(2018)

2. DIY vs Revival: NXT Tag Titles: Takeover Toronto(2016)

3.  Nakamura vs AJ Styles: IWGP Intercontinental Title; WrestleKingdom(2016)

4. Authors of Pain vs DIY vs the Revival: NXT Tag TItles: Takeover Orlando(2017)

5. Undertaker vs HHH: Wrestlemania: Hell in a Cell(2012)

Match of December

Angel Garza vs Lio Rush: Cruiserweight Title NXT TV
Finn Balor vs  Keith Lee vs Tommaso CIampa: NXT
Rhea Ripley vs Shayna Bazsler : NXT
Cameron Grimes vs Kushia:  NXT
Killian Dain vs  Pete Dunne: NXT
Adam Cole, Kyle O'Rielly & Bobby Fish vs Tommaso CIampa, Donovan Dijakovic & Keith Lee: NXT
Adam Cole vs Finn Balor: NXT
Jushin Thubder Liger, Ibiushi & Tanahashi vs Okada, Rocky Romero & Yoshi Hashi
Brian Pilman JR vs TJP: Fusion
Aleister Black vs Buddy Murphy: Raw

Lucky Day

Roger Avary is back! If you loved the Pulp Fiction inspired films of the 90s & early 00s then you'll dig this, and it especially works with Pulp writer Avary helming this film. This is by no means perfect, far from it, but it is a return to the days of Killing Zoe but with the style of the Rules of Attraction! Bloody as fuck, funny and super slick.

Match of the Year

1. Johnny Gargano vs Adam Cole: Takeover: NXT Title: April
2. Kofi Kingston vs Daniel Bryan: Wrestlemania: WWE Title: April
3. Matt Taven vs Jay Lethal vs Marty Scurll: ROH Title: G1 Supercard April
4. Kazuchika Okada vs Jay White: IWGP Title: G1 Supercard April
5. Jay Lethal vs Matt Taven: ROH Title: Anniversary March

6. Mens War Games: Takeover War Games November
7. Womens War Games: Takeover War Games November
8. Nick Aldis vs Marty Scurll: NWA Title: Crockett Cup April
9. Dynasty vs Harts: MLW Fusion. Tag Titles July
10. Angel Garza vs Lio Rush: Cruiswerweight title NXT TV December
11. Okada vs Ospreay: G1 July
12. Velveteen Dream vs Roderick Strong vs Pete Dunne: North American Title. Takeover Toronto  August
13. Walter vs Tyler: NXT UK; Takeover Cardiff  August
14. Roderick Strong vs Velveteen Dream: NA Title NXT TV September
15. Roderick Strong vs Keith Lee vs Dominik Daijakovic: North American title: NXT TV October
16. Matt Riddle vs Roderick Strong: Takeover June
17. Street Profits vs Forgotten Sons vs Undisputed Era vs Danny Burch & Oney Lorcan: Tag Titles: Takeover June
18. Velveteen Dream vs Tyler Breeze: North American Title: Takeover June
19. Matt Taven vs Mark Haskins: ROH TItle: War of the Worlds May
20. SmackDown Gauntlet Match: Randy Orton vs AJ Styles vs Kofi Kingston vs Samoa Joe vs Jeff Hardy vs Daniel Bryan February
21. Johnny Gargano vs Ricochet: Takeover Phoenix: North American Title
22. Velveteen Dream vs Johnny Gargano: North American Title: NXT TV February
23. Briscoes vs Guerillas of Destiny: ROH  Manhattan Mayhem, ROH Tag titles  July
24. Morgan Webster & Mark Andrews vs Wolfgang & Mark Cofey vs James Drake & Zack Gibson: Takeover Cardiff: NXT UK Tag titles August
25. Pete Dunne vs Killian Dain vs Damien Priest: Takeover War Games November
26. Matt Riddle vs Cameron Grimes: NXT TV October
27. ReDragon vs Keith Lee & Matt Riddle October
28. Tyler Bate vs Cameron Grimes: NXT TV October
29. Donovan Dijakovic Vs Keith Lee: NXT TV August
30. Tony Nese vs Buddy Murphy: Cruiserweight Title: 205 Live April