Another year is behind us and it’s another year that I didn’t see a movie in a theater with my large popcorn and Coke Zero (and my complimentary refills)!
Maybe this year! The movies I’m most excited to see are “Halloween Ends” (October 14, 2022) and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (December 23, 2022). Yes, it’s about Whitney Houston with Stanley Tucci as Clive Davis!
Before I kick off the countdown of my 20 favorite movies I watched in 2021, a little explanation is needed.
My top movies are not necessarily the “best” movies of the year or the highly coveted awards-worthy movies.
A movie gets a higher ranking on my list if I’d want to watch it again and again. Some of the movies I saw in 2021 were fantastic, but I have no need or desire to watch them again, so they can’t be a “favorite”!
Let’s begin the countdown with the movies that I saw that missed out on the Top 20! (And, when you’re done, let me know which ones YOU saw and YOUR favorites of 2021!
My least favorite movie of the year was “False Positive” and I saw some of “Antebellum”, but I gave up on it about 15 minutes into it!
Just missing out: #41 “Pieces of a Woman”; #40 “Another Round”; #39 “The Harder They Fall”; #38 “Don’t Look Up”; #37 “Breaking News In Yuba County”; #36 “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar”; #35 “Judas and the Black Messiah”; #34 “The Father”; #33 “Candyman”; #32 “The Hand of God”; #31 “A Quiet Place Part II”, #30 “Peter Rabbit 2”; #29 “Tick! Tick! Boom!”; #28 “Christmas in Tune”; #27 “Da 5 Bloods”; #26 “I Care A Lot”; #25 “Halloween Kills”; #24 “In The Heights”; #23 “Army of the Dead”; #22 “Cruella”; and #21 “The Forever Purge”.
“THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW”
“PIG”
“SUPERNOVA”
“THE UNITED STATES vs BILLIE HOLIDAY”
“NOMADLAND”
“SINGLE ALL THE WAY”
“ARMY OF THIEVES”
“THE UNFORGIVABLE”
“DEAR EVAN HANSEN”
“THE DONUT KING”
“DUNE”
“THE POWER OF THE DOG”
“FRENCH EXIT”
“BLUE BAYOU”
“SPENCER”
“THE LOST DAUGHTER”
“THE MAURITANIAN”
“THE WHITE TIGER”
Before I reveal my two favorites movies I saw in 2021, here are my favorite movies over the past five years. How many of these did you see?
“PARASITE“
“THE FAREWELL”
“CALL ME BY YOUR NAME”
“LION”
“GOODNIGHT MOMMY”
Now, back to my favorite movies I saw in 2021.
“MINARI”
“PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN”
Thank you for checking out my favorites. As always, I welcome your comments. 🙂
It was just last week that I referenced Memorial Day being the “unofficial” start to summer.
After dealing with frosty temperatures a week ago, it’s now feeling like summer here in Illinois with highs heading up well into the 80s.
Our big warm-up started Thursday and will last into next week!
Yuck! I only like the 80s when we’re talking music!
Thank you for taking the time to check out my random thoughts!
GOODWILL AND GOOD GRIEF!
My sister loves going to Goodwill stores. Yard sales are more up my alley.
Now that the people across the country are feeling more comfortable and getting out of their homes, some are doing some spring cleaning.
You’d think that Goodwill store would benefit greatly from this. However, check out this headline and tidbit from the Associated Press:
The Twitter post states, “Americans cleaning out their homes during the pandemic have been donating defective and unusable items to Goodwill. The stores say the donations are hurting them rather than helping and want people to stop giving them their trash.”
Come on people, throw your damn trash away and recycle things that are still in good shape!
“ARMY OF THE DEAD”
I’m so excited that the Zack Snyder Las Vegas/zombie heist film hits Netflix this weekend!!!! I know what I’ll be watching!
A follow-up, a prequel, “Army of Thieves”, has already been shot!
It was directed by actor Matthias Schweighöfer, who stars in both movies.
“THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW”
Six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams and Oscars winners Julianne Moore (“Still Alice”) and Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”) and Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh star in this Netflix psychological thriller.
Okay, no matter what JJL does, I’ll always see her as “Hedy” in “Single White Female” (1992)!
It’s basically an update of the 1954 Jimmy Stewart/Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Rear Window” and 2007’s “Disturbia” with Shia LeBeouf.
In this version, Amy Adams’ Anna Fox is a New York City agoraphobic who spends her time drinking red wine and watching her neighbors.
That’s it!
Ha, just kidding!!!
One night she sees a neighbor being attacked. Or, did she? Was it a just part of a drunken stupor?
This movie definitely rises above the fray and now I plan on reading the book.
By the way, I didn’t see the plot twists ahead of time and that brought the grade up!
GRADE: A
VERY RANDOM THOUGHTS
The internet and entertainment word is abuzz about the possibility that “Bennifer” is a thing again.
Am I jaded and the only one that doesn’t care if Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are together again?
I just have so little faith in Hollywood couplings and marriages (maybe in marriage altogether)!
My only real concern if they’re together again is that there could be a “Gigli 2”? (Okay, I didn’t actually see the 2003 original, but neither anyone else, in theaters, since it was a box office bomb!)
After watching season four of “Fargo”, the television series, I don’t think Chris Rock should give up his day job as a comedian to be a dramatic actor.
He wasn’t convincing as a mob boss! However, his final scene in the series had potential!
However, the highlight of the season was seeing Timothy Olyphant playing Dick “Deafy” Wickware , a 1950 Mormon U.S. Marshal agent.
What? Another U.S. Marshal? Yes, but it was much different than Raylan Givens on “Justified.
MUST SEE VIDEO!!!
I’ve earned back some of my gay points!
A few weeks I commented that I wish Madonna would just focus on making music again because her Twitter feed seems so desperate.
Don’t get me wrong, I still love her and I can’t wait to see the Netflix documentary on the “Madame X Tour” since I didn’t get to see it.
However, I’m obsessed with the incredible performance of Elton John and Olly Alexander (from the group Years & Years) at the 2021 BRIT Awards.
They performed the Pet Shop Boys 1987 Top 10 hit “It’s A Sin” (which is also the name of the HBO Max series featuring Alexander about the early AIDS epidemic in London).
You can tell that Elton is ready to hit the road again this fall with his “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” farewell tour.
“YOU” BOOK SERIES
After watching the first two season of the creepy, stalker, “love story” Netflix series, “You”, I decided to read the first two Caroline Kepnes book it’s based on.
It was interesting to see how the author saw Joe Goldberg, Beck, and Love and how much was changed when it became a television series.
Spoiler (not really): Book 1 (“You” — 2014) and Season 1 were pretty close, yet there was much more of difference between Book 2 (“Hidden Bodies” — 2016) and Season 2.
A third book, “You Love Me” came out in April 2021, but I haven’t read it yet. The third season of the series is expected later in 2021.
Here’s the trailer for the first season, which originally aired on Lifetime.
“MEMORIAL”
Bryan Washington’s fall 2020 fictional book, “Memorial”, is a great read.
It tells the story of a young gay interracial Houston couple, Ben and Mike, navigating a failing relationship and a cultural divide.
Mike is waiting for his mother from Japan to arrive when he decides to fly to Japan to spend time with his dying father, who abandoned the family when Mike was a teenager.
Mike drops the bombshell that he’s leaving his mother there with Ben, who’s Black, and has never met his boyfriend’s mother for an indefinitely period of time!
“PARTY DOWN”
A revival of the comedy, “Party Down”, is in development more than a decade after it ended.
I recently watched the two-season, 20 episode series that originally aired in 2009 and 2010.
It’s about a group of entertainment types (actors, writers, and comedians) working at a catering company, Party Down, to pay the bills while they wait for their big break.
It stars Adam Scott (“Parks and Recreation”), Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”), and Jane Lynch (pre-“Glee”).
Season one was very funny and season two was enjoyable, but not as funny.
THAT’S IT
With all the craziness in the world, make it the best in your little part of it!
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