It’s that time of year again; time to look back on the year passed and recognize the best of the best. It seems every year we complain the crop of movies isn’t up to par, but then the time to compile a list of the best of the year arrives and it’s increasingly difficult. This year gave me a particularly tough time thanks to my latest endeavor: film school. Over the summer, I decided to take my passion for film one step further and enroll in Columbia University’s Film MFA program. It didn’t take long for the education to collide with my work. As I learned more about the filmmaking…

Halloween was fun, there’s nothing like a good scary movie, but my favorite time of the year for movies is Christmas. There’s nothing like sitting in front of the TV with a hot cup of cocoa, wrapped in blankets and your favorite Christmas movie in the player. Here’s my top 10 Christmas movies list that don’t suck. Some of the favorites include Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas, Bad Santa, Gremlins and the timeless classics A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Story and Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. 1. Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One…

Since ancient Rome, the circus dazzled audiences with trained animals, jugglers and acrobats. More modern circus’s feature acrobats, clowns, fire eaters, trapeze acts and unicyclists. Here’s our list of top 10 circus and sideshow films including “The Elephant Man” from director David Lynch, “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, and the Tod Browning classics “Freaks”, “The Unholy Three” and “The Unknown” starring Lon Chaney. Also a few popular upcoming releases such as “Water for Elephants” starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1) and “Carnies” starring Doug Jones (Hellboy, Frankenstein), Chris Staviski and Reggie Bannister. 1. Freaks, starring Wallace Ford Directed by Tod Browning Synopsis: A circus’ beautiful…

1. An Inconvenient Truth, Directed by Davis Guggenheim. Synopsis: A documentary on Al Gore’s campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide. 2. Erin Brockovich, Directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Julia Roberts. Synopsis: An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply. 3. Free Willy, Directed by Simon Wincer and starring Jason James Richter. Synopsis: When a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale. 4. March of the Penguins, Directed Luc Jacquet and starring…

Entertainment Weekly just posted Stephen King’s picks for best movies of 2008. Here ya go! #1 The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale (Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins), Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) and Michael Caine. #2 Slumdog Millionaire, starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor and Saurabh Shukla. #3 WALL-E, starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard and Sigourney Weaver. #4 Tropic Thunder, starring Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Nick Nolte, Tom Cruise, Tobey Maguire and Ben Stiller. #5 Funny Games, starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. #6 The Bank Job, starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows. #7 Lakeview Terrace, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Regine Nehy, Jay…