3-25-26 favorite movies
latest updates 3-25-26
favorite movies
animated films
(DC / Scooby-Doo / stop motion & rotoscoping)
comedy
(action comedy / comedy horror / sci-fi comedy)
comic book movies (live-action adaptations)
computer animation (CGI)
dystopian & post-apocalyptic films
holiday movies (mostly Christmas, but other holidays too)
horror (this includes many sub-genres)
law enforcement (police, FBI, courts, etc.)
science fiction
(sci-fi comedy)
serio-comedy (aka dramedy)
supernatural & paranormal
(supernatural horror)
miscellaneous
other films (meh, I dunno)
movies I want to see
Summer of...
tek's nostalgia: movies
because I can't go to a theater...
Introductory Notes
Item One: Ratings system
Item Two: Genres
Item 2a.: Anime & Cartoons (animation)
Item Three: Links.
Item 3a.: Streaming sites
For quite awhile I had a sytem of tiers for each category, but I eventually moved the categories into a system using frames, so all movies in each category will be on one page, basically. And the new rating system will use different numbers of "smileys" or "hearts," instead of tiers.
Okay, I'm probably going to keep coming up with different categories, and never be entirely happy with any of them. And I often won't even be sure which categories to put certain films in, but I'll do my best.
Most of my categories here are specific genres, or at least I try to make them so. However, I'm generally against considering animation a genre unto itself, cuz it just ain't so. Cartoons and anime can be made for any age group, they can be dramatic or comical, they can fit into any live-action genre you care to name. So why put them in their own categories, instead of spreading specific animated movies amongst the other categories based on genre? I dunno. Maybe just cuz I like them so much. I'm afraid I can't think of anything else to tell you.
On the line below the title, I'll try to provide links to both official and unofficial sites, for reference. These may include The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Rotten Tomatoes, TV Tropes (these links will occasionally be for the book or whatever a film is based on, rather than for the film itself), Wikia (which has changed to "Fandom", but I still mostly list my links as "Wikia"), and Wikipedia, whenever possible. (Note that Wikia eventually became "Fandom," but I still call my links by the old name. Also note that I may sometimes include more than one Wikia link, as wikis may be devoted to the film itself, or to a franchise or company of which the film is a part.) I may also occasionally include a link to a favored fansite. Official websites (by companies involved with a film's production, distribution, release, etc.) will sometimes be harder to find, particularly for older or smaller films. But I'll do what I can. Sometimes these will just be listed as "official website," other times I might call links "DVD site" or "theatrical site." (In some cases instead of "official" or "DVD," I may name the studio or company that distributes the film.) For some films, I may include links to reviews at American Film Institute (AFI), or Badmovies.org, or Bloody Disgusting, or Council of Geeks (and Break Room of Geeks), or The Criterion Collection, or Dread Central, or Great but Forgotten, or History vs Hollywood, or The Templeton Gate, or Thrilling Detective.
Sites I'll try to provide links to in my reviews may include Amazon, Fandango at Home, Hulu, Movies Anywhere, YouTube, and sometimes other sites. For streaming sites I don't list in my reviews, check JustWatch.