11 Most Anticipated Films for 2011

1. The Tree of Life: Terrence Mallick brings his lush cinematography... to space!
2. Super 8: J.J. Abrams and a crazy cryptic teaser trailer.
3. The Adventures of Tintin: Steven Speilberg is back!
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: David Fincher, this man can do no wrong.
5. X-Men First Class: Magneto as a teenager, wuht!?
6. The Muppets: Jason Seigel killing it.
7. Harry Potter 7.2: Meh, seems obligatory.
8. Rango: Hope it is as crazy as the teaser made it out to be i.e. the first 30 minutes of Pirates 3.
9. Hanna: Child assassin.
10. Captain America: Hoping.
11. Scream 4: Ghostface with an iPhone!

Best movies 2010

For the first time since such lists began, I cannot come up with 10 films worthy of a top ten list. TV is better these days anyway.

1. Inception
2. The Ghost Writer
3. The Kids Are Alright
4. Toy Story 3
5. How To Train Your Dragon
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
7. Shutter Island
8. Tron: Legacy

Very notable MIA: The Social Network, Black Swan, The Fighter, Winter's Bone and more for sure.

Best music of 2010

Albums

1. Congratulations, MGMT
2. The Suburbs, Arcade Fire
3. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West
4. This is Happening, LCD Soundsystem
5. Contra, Vampire Weekend

Songs

1. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), Arcade Fire
2. F*ck You, Cee Lo Green
3. Power & Runaway, Kanye West
4. Cousins, Vampire Weekend
5. Drunk Girls, LCD Soundsystem

Most played iTunes tracks in 2010

1. 100,000 Fireflies, The Magnetic Fields
2. F*ck You, Cee Lo Green
3. Run, Vampire Weekend
4. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), Arcade Fire
5. Gold Digger, Glee Cast

30 Rockisms I use in conversation

• Mindgrapes: (n) thoughts
• Jack: (v) to vomit from over excitement
• Liz: (v) to urinate from over excitement
• Lemon (v) to waste or ruin
• Reaganing: (n) a perfect streak

Merry Christmas!

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Thank you Videogum! Now I realize how messed up it was to show this movie to my entire middle school.

10 Great movies to fall asleep to (aka movies I fell asleep to)

1. Last Year at Marienbad

2. Any Jacques Tati movie (Trafic)

3. Any Terrance Malick movie (Badlands)

4. Any of Robert Altman's late work (A Prairie Home Companion!)

5. Russian Ark

6. The Seventh Seal (More like the Grim Sleeper, am I right?)

7. The Tale of Despereux (high recommended, very quiet, color pallet neutral, perfect sleep movie)

8. Woody Allen movies (Manhattan, Deconstructing Harry come to mind)

9. Kar Wai Wong movies (Chunking Express)

10. Encounters at the End of the World

Tim Burton ranked

1. Beetlejuice
2. Batman Returns
3. Ed Wood
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. Batman
6. Sleepy Hollow
7. Sweeney Todd
8. Mars Attacks!
9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
10. Corpse Bride
11. Big Fish
12. Alice in Wonderland
13. Planet of the Apes