My top 10 favourite 2018 movies:

Ready Player One

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

• The Spy Who Dumped Me

• Game Night

• Incredibles 2

• Deadpool 2

• Black Panther

• A Star is Born

• BlacKkKlansman

• A Quiet Place — Everything you heard is true. This one is awesome!

Honourable mentions: Avengers: Infinity War, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Kindergarten Teacher. There were others, but not all of them would be noteworthy. These were the ones I enjoyed most.

My top 10 favourite movies I watched in 2018 (that were not released in 2018):

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

• The Shape of Water (2017)

• All the President’s Men (1976)

• The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

• Molly’s Game (2017)

• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

• Mudbound (2017)

• The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) 

• What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

• Sherlock, Jr. (1924) — Buster Keaton. Gotta see it!

Honourable mentions:The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), The Magic Pill (2017), Giant (2017), Y Tu Mamá También (2001). Again, there were others…

The Worst Movies I Watched in 2018:

• A Dog’s Purpose (2017)

• Gaslight (1944

• 1922 (2017)

• The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

• Mile 22 (2018)

• Tammy (2014)

• Winchester (2018)

• War Room (2015)

• A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

• Dumplin’ (2018) — It’s on Netflix, but I wouldn’t if I were you…

Congratulations Wild (2014). This is your week.

And the Oscar goes to…

Best Actress:

 Anna Kendrick as Natalie Keener in Up in the Air (2009).

Best Actor: Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).

Best Quote: “I’d rather be a forest than a street.” — Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl in Wild.

Having said all of this, probably my highlight movie experience would be Skyscraper. It’s not movie-of-the-year material, but I went to see it with Luke. It was only the two of us and that made for the best movie-going experience all year. No offense to anyone else I went to the movies with this year…