The Bat Cave

Movies – I got back to “normal” life during the last week of March, re-activating my AMC A-list membership and returning to the movie theaters. I also got back to doing my day job: playing poker. I still watched an absurd amount of movies in March, but with getting back to the poker grind last week and doing all my fantasy baseball drafts (five of them!) the week before that, I didn’t review most of the movies I watched. I’m guess that’s how it will be going forward. I’ll probably still watch 2-4 movies a week, but I won’t have much time to write about them. If I wind up reviewing a movie that I haven’t yet, I’ll just post the link in next month’s post like this. I’ll say this much: Anthony Hopkins in The Father is my favorite performance of 2020.

• Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell (Netflix, 2021)
• I Care a Lot (Netflix, 2021) – Golden Globe winner for Best Actress in a Comedy
• Zack Snyder’s Justice League (HBOMax, 2021)
• Collective (2020) – Nominated for Best International Feature and Best Documentary
• Emma. (HBOMax, 2020) – Nominated for Costume Design and Makeup/Hairstyling
• I’m No Longer Here (Netflix, 2020) – On the shortlist for Best International Feature Film
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix, 2020) – Nominated for Best Actor and Actress, Production and Costume Design, and Makeup/Hairstyling
• Mole Agent, The (Hulu, 2020) – Nominated for Best Documentary and on the Best International Feature Film shortlist
• My Octopus Teacher (Netflix, 2020) – Nominated for Best Documentary
• Sound of Metal (Amazon Prime, 2020 – re-watch) – Nominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor
• The Last Blockbuster (Netflix, 2020)
• Time (Amazon Prime, 2020) – Nominated for Best Documentary
• The Burning (Tubi, 1981

Movies I watched, but didn’t review (ratings out of 10):

• Nobody (2021) – 7/10
• The White Tiger (Netflix, 2021) – Nominated for Best Original Screenplay – 7/10
• What Would Sophia Loren Do? (Netflix, 2021) – On shortlist for Best Documentary Short Subject – 6/10
• Better Days (2020) – Nominated for Best International Feature – 7/10
• A Love Song for Latasha (Netflix, 2020) – Nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject – 6/10
• If Anything Happens I Love You (Netflix, 2020) – Nominated for Best Animated Short – 8/10
• News of the World (2020) – Nominated for 4 Oscars – 6/10
• Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) – Nominated for Best International Feature – 8/10
• The Father (2020) – Nominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay – 8/10
• The Midnight Sky (Netflix, 2020) – Nominated for Best Visual Effects – 5/10
• To: Gerard (Peacock, 2020) – On the shortlist for Best Animated Short – 6/10
• Just Mercy (2019) – 8/10
• Phantasm 2 (1988) – 6/10
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) – 6/10
• Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) – 5/10
• Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) – 6/10
• Friday the 13th (1980) – 7/10

2021 Best Feature Films: My top 25 of 2021 through March
2020 Best Feature Films: My top 25 of 2020 through March
2020 Best Documentaries/Docu-Series: My top documentary style films of the year
2020/2021 Oscar Watch: My list of favorites for the major Oscar categories
Focused Watchlist: A list of 30 movies that are at the top of my watchlist with a breakdown of how I formulate my picks
April 2021 – New to Theaters and Streaming: Ranking new and old movies I want to see coming to streaming or theaters this month

I also went crazy and made a best films of the year list for every year from 2020 to 1982, the year I was born. I ranked 25 films for 2000 and later and 10 films for 1999 to 1982. I started fizzling out on my lists in the early 90s as I just haven’t seen most of the important films from those early years when I was a kid. I have all the lists on my blog here. Enjoy!

T.V. Shows (Ratings out of 5)

• WandaVision – Season 1 (2021) – Disney+ – 2.5
• Schitt’s Creek – Season 2 (2016) – Netflix – 4.5
• Schitt’s Creek – Season 3 (2017) – Netflix – 4
• Schitt’s Creek – Season 4 (2018) – Netflix – 4.5
• Schitt’s Creek – Season 5 (2019) – Netflix – 4.5

Music

• Che Noir – After 12 (Rap, 2020)