Best of the Oscar Shorts 2010

Here is a ranking of the 2010 Academy Award nominees for best dramatic short films (live and animated) in order of best to worst:

1. La Dama y la Muerte
2. Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death'
3. The New Tenants
4. French Roast
5. Istället för Abrakadabra
6. Miracle Fish
7. Kavi
8. Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
9. Logorama
10. The Door

Biggest Snub:
Partly Cloudy

Sundance Film Festival 2010

Best Movies of 2010

1. True Grit
2. Tangled 3D
3. Inception
4. How to Train Your Dragon 3D
5. Black Swan
6. Countdown to Zero
7. Let Me In
8. The Ghost Writer
9. The King's Speech
10. The Square

Worst Movies of 2010

1. Pirahna 3D
2. Repo Men
3. The Wolfman
4. Clash of the Titans 3D
5. Salt
6. Robin Hood
7. The Last Airbender
8. Jonah Hex
9. Paranormal Activity 2
10. Double Take

Best Movies of the Decade - '00s

This was a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. We have reached the end of another decade and so many magazines and shows were putting together top ten lists for the decade and I decided, why not take a whack at it? It was not even anywhere remotely near easy. When I looked down at the bloody victors at my feet after I had so ruthlessly hacked away at the thousands of films that I have seen over the past ten years and the hundreds that deserved a spot on this list, there were so measly few remaining standing, but that number was still 35. I had to still deny 25 masterpieces eternal glory to reach the arbitrary number of "top ten". It was like killing babies. So I apologize to all the movies that didn't manage to make it to the final roundup. It was nothing personal.

Now, a word about how I made the list. I hate people who make lists and then choose their spots not by which movies they liked better than another, but rather which was the best of a genre, or some other capricious rule. For example, "I need to pick a Pixar movie on my list, which was the best?". If all ten of the best films of the decade happen to be made by Pixar, that is no reason to punish Pixar by canceling itself out of contention. It is very tempting to do, but categorically unfair. I started with a list that was nothing but a list of the films I liked best and narrowing it down using a bracket-like system until I had what I deemed the best. I was as surprised as anybody possibly could be.

So without further ado:

1. Children of Men (2006)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
3. Hot Fuzz (2007)
4. There Will Be Blood (2007)
5. Finding Nemo (2003)
6. Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
7. Crash (2005)
8. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
10. Frozen River (2008)

My Favorite Bands

For a change of pace, I thought I'd let you know what kind of music I listen to, so here are my top 20 favorite bands of all time:

1. Blink-182
2. Ludo
3. Green Day
4. Mury
5. Alkaline Trio
6. SR-71
7. The Airborne Toxic Event
8. Bowling for Soup
9. American Hi-Fi
10. Single File
11. Sum 41
12. Billy Talent
13. The Offspring
14. Box Car Racer
15. Lucky Boys Confusion
16. Rise Against
17. Goldfinger
18. Weezer
19. The All-American Rejects
20. Good Charlotte

30 Seconds of Fame

Screw Andy Warhol, I'm up to a solid 30 seconds with my second Haiku Review to make it on "The Rotten Tomatoes Show"