Friday, December 31, 2021

2021 In Review

 My standard best of year list as well as some other things for a planed podcast

Best films of 2021

Licorice Pizza 

The Card Counter 

Last Night in Soho

The French Dispatch

West Side Story 

The Eyes of Tammy Faye 

Dune 

Pig 

Spencer

Don't Look Up

Honorable Mention: 

The Little Things, Nobody, Cruella, In the Heights, The Dig


Worst films of 2021: Coming 2 America, Godzilla vs. Kong, Witnesses, Black Widow 



Favorite Movie we watched on the podcast this year: The Exorcist. Network, Tree of Life. The Little Things

The worst: Mixed Nuts

Some favorites from previous years that I saw for the first time this year: 

Wildfire (2019) Paul Schrader Hardcore (1979) Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist *Father Marrin * (2005) Whitt Stillman movies;  Barcelona  (1994) and The Metropolitan (1990) Ragtime - Milos Formen (1981) (E L Doctrow novel) Paul Thomas Anderson Boogie Nights (1997) Hard Eight (1996) Awakings (1990) The Taking of Pelham, One, Two, Three (1974)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Books, I tended to read a lot of things in double feature this year: 

The Tea Pot Dome Scandle: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country by Laton McCartney and The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy by Harry Daugherty.

Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel by Val Holley and Under the Prophet in Utah by Frank J. Cannon. 

Axioms End and Truth of the Divine by Lindsey Ellis 

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter a Life by Johnathan Alter 

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