101 Movies That I Love the Most – Part Four [25-01]

So lately I made a Youtube video, for the first time (I’ve made films before, and put them on Youtube, but I never made a video specifically to just say stuff on Youtube) in which I share my 101 Films That I Love the Most. You can see the video and read all about it here.

In addition to making this video, I thought I’d also share it in writing—for easy reference in case you or I don’t feel like listening to me talk about this over 40 minutes of real time.

Solo: A Star Wars Story

For as long as I’ve been hearing about the second Star Wars anthology film, Solo, I’ve been pretty doubtful about the whole thing.  And then when I began to hear about all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans, with the film’s directors being fired and replaced partway through, and leading man Alden Ehrenreich apparently needing an acting coach because the producers weren’t happy about how things were coming out…well, at that point I couldn’t help to wonder how this movie could possibly be any good.

47 Great Movie Moments #19 – Apollo 13

Continuing with this series of 47 moments in film that I love (Why 47?), today, for #19, we jump forward from 1925 to 1995 and visit a movie that is telling a story from 1970.

47 Movie Blogs #44 – 5 Favorite Historical Dramas

Ahh, the historical drama, a classic genre of film making.  Indeed, a favorite genre at Oscar time.  But today, according to the instructions I’ve been given, we’re going to limit the definition a bit.

47 Movie Blogs #25 – An Underappreciated Movie Actor

Today we are talking about under-appreciated movie actors, or one in particular. There are a few different approaches one could take with this. I could talk about Tom Cruise, who I think is a pretty good actor even though many that I speak to seem to disagree. But it’s hard to argue that he’s genuinely unappreciated – obviously, he is a super-famous bankable movie star.

47 Movie Blogs #9 – Five Favorite Tom Hanks Movies

Tom Hanks is one of the most celebrated actors of our day.  He’s had a long and critically acclaimed career with many notable parts and lots of awards under his belt.  For this post, I’ve been asked to mention my five favorite of his films.