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Wow, did we have some bad movies this year.  Normally, when I do my Worst Movies of the Year list, it's mostly horror movies, and that's still true this year, but we also got an abnormally high amount of superhero movies on the list.  From Best to Worst, here is my list! #10. The Watchers I'll give The Watchers points for creativity.  It follows a group of people who get trapped in a strange room in the middle of the woods and are watched by mysterious creatures at night.  That's a great premise!  It has a few interesting moments and great cinematography, but the movie has some serious pacing issues.  The 2nd act isn't as interesting as it could have been and the 3rd act is genuinely terrible.  Plus the characters are very stupid. #9. Venom: The Last Dance I've been pretty mixed on the Venom series.  I didn't like the first movie, but the 2nd is easily my favorite movie of the Sony Spider-Man villain-verse or whatever it's called.  This one i...

 "You don't see me saying anything crazy about Abed and Troy's weird, little relationship." -Shirley Bennett "Romantic Expressionism" picks up with Jeff (Joel McHale) and Britta (Gillian Jacobs) spotting Annie (Alison Brie) and Vaughn (Eric Christian Olsen) flirting with each other.  Later, Annie asks for Britta's blessing to date Vaughn and reveals that she has given up on ever dating Troy (Donald Glover) because he seems more interested in Abed (Danny Pudi) than anyone else.  Britta gives Annie her blessing, which angers Jeff, who says creepier and creepier guys will now see Annie as an option.  Later, Star-burns (Dino Stamatopoulos) mentions to them that he has the hots for Annie, which resolves Jeff and Britta to break up Annie and Vaughn to set her up with Troy instead. Jeff and Britta tell Troy that Annie is in love with him and using Vaughn to make him jealous.  Troy attempts to flirt with Annie in front of Vaughn.  Annie admits that she used to h...

We've reached the end of 2024 and it's time for me to rank my Top 10 Movies of the year!  There were a lot of great movies this year and it was tough to cut some movies from my Top 10.  And the Top 3 are all absolute bangers with 1st place being one of the best cinematic experiences I've ever had.  Let's take a look! #10: Longlegs Longlegs made me think a lot of Silence of the Lambs  combined with The X-Files. This is a police procedural following FBI agents in the pursuit of a serial killer.  Pretty straightforward on paper, but this is a movie that goes off the rails with its story and a fantastic performance from Nicolas Cage.  The direction and cinematography are both fantastic, but I do think the movie missed a few opportunities to get even scarier. #9. Lisa Frankenstein A love story between a teenage girl and the corpse she brings back to life.  I think I definitely liked this movie more than most people.  It's a total vibe movie that I real...

 "Can I just ask as a divorced, black housewife, what part of being a single, white slacker makes you people so jaded?" -Shirley Bennett "Interpretive Dance" picks up with Britta (Gillian Jacobs) noticing a long, brown hair on Jeff's (Joel McHale) jacket and the study group teases him about it.  Jeff eventually reveals that he's been regularly seeing someone, but refuses to say who.  It turns out it's Professor Slater (Lauren Stamile) because Jeff is no longer her student.  The two prepare to get it on in her office, but are interrupted by Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) who quickly kills the mood. Later, Slater and Jeff kiss in the library, but the rest of the group see them.  Jeff comes clean about seeing Slater, but asks them to keep it quiet.  Unfortunately, Pierce (Chevy Chase) immediately starts tweeting about it and the Dean calls a meeting with Jeff and Slater as soon as he hears about it.  During the meeting, Slater says they are boyfriend and girlfrie...

"She died not long after that, and I never saw her again." -Calypso Ezili Sergai Kravinoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) was raised his entire life to take over the criminal empire of his father, Nikolai (Russell Crowe).  However, Sergai rejected this path to live an isolated life as Kraven the Hunter, a man who hunts down and kills bad men.  When Kraven's little brother, Dmitri (Fred Hechinger), gets caught up in a fight between multiple groups of criminals, Kraven has to return to civilization to save his brother and teams up with Calypso (Ariana DeBose), the woman who gave him superpowers to begin with, to hunt down everyone who is after Dmitri. What Works: I think we all expected this movie to be the next Morbius or Madam Web.  I know I did, but this movie has one key element that that those two movies didn't have; a protagonist to root for.  Kraven is far more likable than Morbius or Madam Web ever were.  I was actually able to get invested in this movie because K...

"You're not relaxed.  You're an uptight puppet master and these are all your puppets." -Buddy "Investigative Journalism" picks up with the study group returning from winter break and catching up.  Jeff (Joel McHale) has a brand new attitude and wants to be the laid-back comic relief.  The group eventually notices another student, Buddy (Jack Black), has joined the table and wants to join the study group.  The laid-back Jeff allows it, but Buddy clashes with the rest of the group with some inappropriate comments towards the women, failed humor, and accidentally kicking Jeff in the face.   The study group has a membership meeting and Jeff manipulates the group into voting to reject Buddy from the group.  When they try to let Buddy know, he refuses to leave the study room until Jeff has to drag him out. Meanwhile, the Dean (Jim Rash) resurrects the campus newspaper and asks Jeff to be the editor.  He agrees after he learns he gets his own office and ...