The Fourth Annual TDYLFies

It’s a major award!

The end of the year is just around the corner, which means it’s time for the annual flurry of best and worst movie lists. I haven’t seen nearly enough movies released this year to make a list like that. Thankfully, I’ve established a year end wrap-up list of my own– the TDYLFie awards. It’s a list comprised of the best in movies (that I’ve seen this year only). This is more of a list about my own experience watching movies this year than it is about anything that was released in this year. Without further delay, here is the awards program for the 4th Annual TDYLFies.

The New Year’s Resolutions: Update #7

At the end of 2012, I made a lot of movie-related New Year’s resolutions for 2013. Adding them all up, my goal comes out to 109 (mostly) specific films to watch this year. July was a busy month, leaving less time for movies. Thankfully, most of the movies I saw this month were specifically resolution movies. So there was a lot of progress made.

The Movie Weekend That Was

Friday night, I went to the baseball game with my friend. At one point, we started to discuss what was on the docket for our movie weekends. I hadn’t really planned any sort of chicanery. There was no intention of having a bizarre, wild mix. And yet, it ended up being one of the more diverse, unholy movie weekend batches I’ve ever cooked up. On the docket: a 90s b-horror about an evil ice cream man, the wholesomiest of wholesome American musicals, two surrealist masterpieces (one about gay Nazi bikers), an indie film about serial killers, and an overlooked 90s indie classic. And that doesn’t even include my missed chance at seeing the popular kids movie-du-jour. This is the movie weekend that was.