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My Favorite: Movies: 1982

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 16, 2013

The stretch between 1980 and 1982 was kind of epic for my childhood in terms of favorite movies: Empire Strikes Back, Superman II, Raiders of the Lost Ark and now Star Trek II: KAHNNN!!!!, Tron and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Let’s start off with my usual excursion over to IMDB to remember what I’ve seen and what I haven’t but probably should get around to watching. HAVE SEEN: Tootsie, 48 Hours, Tron, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Deathtrap, Nightshift, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Firefox, Poltergeist, Blade Runner, The Thing, Annie, One from the Heart, Zapped!, My Favorite Year, The Grey Fox, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gandhi, First Blood, Pink Floyd The …

My Favorite: Movies: 1981

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 14, 2013

My last year as not-quite-a-teenage was the year Raiders of the Lost Ark came out. I saw a pretty random assortment of movies in the theater that year. I remember seeing Raiders, Clash of the Titans, Time Bandits, Taps, Saturday the 14th and Modern Problems pretty clearly. Raiders was easily my favorite movie that year. It was cool in a way I hadn’t really seen in a movie before and I’m far from alone in thinking it was a great revitalization of the old action movie serials. I wouldn’t say it was a reinvention of the form but just like …

My Favorite: Movies: 1980

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 7, 2013

I thought about tackling the 2000s after completing my run through the Nineties, but I realized how sharply my movie viewing has trailed off that decade. Blame having kids and a job and the Internet I guess. Anyhow I’m going to go backwards to the Eighties instead. 1980 is right in the middle of my childhood wheelhouse. This is prime nostalgia territory folks, so beware! It is incredibly hard to separate how you experienced the movie from the movie itself. Not everything from this year, I saw that year; anything R or even harder PG (this was the days before …

My favorite comics of early 2000

by Xaviar XerexesDecember 27, 2012

The very first website I had was on Geocities. The next thing I did was grab the tannline.com domain which became a hub for me, family and friends to use. One of the things I started there was the “Linkopedia of Comics” which for me is a precursor to starting Comixpedia in 2003. In early 2000, I looked up in the Wayback Machine the “hall of fame” webcomics list I had written up on Tannline — mostly familiar names but not all. Bobbins by John Allison Fried Society by Chris Kelly Mr. Chuck Show by John Meyers Mr Nice by Michael Stinson PvP by …

My Favorite: Movies: Nineties

by Xaviar XerexesDecember 12, 2012

Picking ten favorite movies of the nineties is kind of a ridiculous challenge now that I’ve plowed through every year. I have a list of a hundred favorites compiled from the decade — all of which certainly are movies I love. Now that I’ve started this project, I honestly wonder how critics compile their best of lists — I suppose they are more beholden to some consensus of critical acclaim but even then it must be extremely difficult to narrow in on just ten movies. AV Club has a top ten of Being John Malkovich, Rushmore, Unforgiven, Reservoir Dogs, Out …

My Favorite: Movies: 1999

by Xaviar XerexesDecember 10, 2012

Wow I’m excited! It’s not often I set a goal and actually meet it, but here we are at the end of the Nineties with ten posts, one for each year, listing my favorites. Next step is to try and come up with a top ten list for the entire decade. Before that I sure would love to hear some comments, arguments, etc on why you think I’m completely nuts in what I’ve picked. A lot of movies I missed in 1999 — here’s the ones I’m putting on my to-watch list: The Blair Witch Project, The Green Mile, Any Given Sunday, The Cider …

My Favorite: Movies: 1997

by Xaviar XerexesDecember 7, 2012

What was the deal with 1997? Multiple movies about giant killer volcanoes? Anyhow, there were only a few movies I saw on IMDb that I have not seen that seemed like ones I should try to catch: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Princess Mononoke and Donnie Brasco. Whether that was because I saw more good movies, fewer good movies came out that year or I am just getting lazier in typing up these year by year posts, I leave up to you, discerning reader. My top ten for that year is: Face/Off Jackie Brown L.A. Confidential …

My Favorite: Movies: 1996

by Xaviar XerexesDecember 6, 2012

1996 was my first full year on the East Coast. I’m curious as to whether the number of movies I saw dipped dramatically as I was working long, long hours that year. Movies that I did not see from that year: A Time to Kill; Scream; Beavis and Butt-Head Do America; Romeo + Juliet; Shine; The Truth About Cats & Dogs; he Long Kiss Goodnight; Black Sheep; The Island of Dr. Moreau; Kingpin; The Frighteners; Secrets & Lies; Big Night; Mulholland Falls; 2 Days in the Valley; Hamlet; and Hard Eight. My top ten favorites are: Fargo Flirting With Disaster The Daytrippers Trainspotting Bottle Rocket The English Patient Independence Day That Thing You Do! Swingers …