The decade that’s ending has the ignominy of following the 1990’s, an era that will be looked back on as a creative peak rivaling the 1970’s for cinema. This is not to say the 00’s sucked as there were some great films and wonderful talents that emerged all over the world.
Pixar proved that the Toy [...]
Category Archives: Reviews
Movies: The 100 Best Films of the 00’s
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Music: The Best Albums of 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
So the 00’s come to an end with a whimper, not a bang. These 25 albums were all great but I’d be lying if I told you that there was another 25 I was anguished about leaving off the list. Even so Dylan, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Raekwon, Monsters of Folk, Talbot Tagora and M. [...]
Movies: Thanksgiving Turkeys 2009 – Our Annual List of Bad Movies
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Every year at this time, we here at Mallination try to bring you a new list of Thanksgiving Turkeys – films so bad they can only be compared to a dumb, flightless, tasty, “jive” bird. As an added bonus I’ve invited guest blogger Sean McDonald to contribute his own list of 5 to my list [...]
Flashback – The Best Movies of 1989
Thursday, October 8, 2009
1989 – the year that gave us the superhero blockbuster with Tim Burton’s Batman (alas too flawed a film to quite make my final list) and a slew of Amerindie classics by future top line directors like Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant and Steven Soderberg. Here, then, are the best 15 films of [...]
Music: Beatlemania 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
A proper video game for real Beatles nerds might go something like this:
Level One:
You have to successfully play for 8 hours straight for bored German lechers who just want to see the naked girls at the Reeperbahn in Berlin’s red light district circa 1961.
Level Two:
Successfully dress in outfits that most give off a “rough trade” [...]