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What did you love this year?

Merry Christmas

Is George C. Scott the best Scrooge?

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME is better than it has any right to be (spoilers)

Have yourself a zombie Christmas musical

Franchise Friday: The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Even Bill Murray can't make me like 'Scrooged'

Is ‘West Side Story’ truly a bomb?

Ain't no Christmas like a Muppet Christmas

Franchise Friday: The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Was Scrooge's redemption always a sure thing?

Can we stop the 'Die Hard' Christmas debate?

The Advent prophecies of Bill Murray and Stephen Colbert

Franchise Friday: The Animatrix (2003)

'The Muppet Christmas Carol' is a great Dickens adaptation

Thanksgiving weekend movie roundup

On a very special holiday Chrisicisms...

Franchise Friday: The Matrix (1999)

The movies I'm thankful for.

'Hawkeye' lets the grumpiest Avenger have some fun

'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' is not a reboot; it's a regurgitation

Saturday coffee: Do I have Marvel fatigue?

Franchise Friday: Ghostbusters (2016)

Double feature: 'Belfast' and 'Spencer'

Why is 'Home Sweet Home Alone' so awful?

Franchise Friday: Ghostbusters II (1989)

Flipping through "The French Dispatch"

Spending a 'Last Night in Soho'

Saturday coffee: The sound of my voice

Franchise Friday: Ghostbusters (1984)

Movies I'm thankful for: Singin' in the Rain

2021 Catchup: Pig

Sunday coffee: Ted Lasso, Lightyear, What We Do in the Shadows

The Slasher Series: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

King-o-Ween: The Dead Zone (1983)

How does 'Dune' work for newbies?

Saturday coffee: What are YOU watching?

The Slasher Series: Friday the 13th, Part 2 (1981)

King-o-Ween: Pet Sematary (1989)

Let’s slash apart ‘Halloween Kills’

Saturday coffee: 'Scream,' 'Home Alone' and 'Ghostbusters' return

The Slasher Series: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

King-O-Ween: Cujo (1983)

No, time to die!

The Slasher Series: Halloween (1978)

King-o-Ween: Creepshow (1982)

The Spielberg Series: Empire of the Sun (1987)

Act II

Marvel as a cinematic gateway

20 Years On.

When normal is off the table

Are movies really better on the big screen?

Let's go to the beach that makes us 'Old'

Sundays with Spielberg: 'The Color Purple'

Sundays with Spielberg: Which Indiana Jones sequel is best?

Let’s talk Marvel, Tarantino, F9 and more! 

Summer of ‘96: Big personalities try to save two lackluster comedies 

Summer of ‘96: ‘Independence Day’ blows up multiplexes

Sundays with Spielberg: 'E.T.' is Spielberg's emotional masterpiece

Sundays with Spielberg: There's no Indiana Jones without '1941'

Summer of '96: Breaking back into 'The Rock'

Sundays with Spielberg: 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' asks 'what's more important than family?'

Back to the movies with 'In the Heights' and 'A Quiet Place Part II'

Sundays with Spielberg: "Jaws"

Sundays with Spielberg: 'The Sugarland Express'

How did ‘Mission: Impossible’ turn into our best franchise?

Sundays with Spielberg: "Duel"

Is 'Twister' a classic or does it belong in the Suck Zone?

Celebrating TV's most important show

Why I don't care who wins the Oscars

'A Week Away' somehow makes Christian music worse

The Rainbow Reconnection

'Godzilla vs. Kong' brings me back to the movies

The good, bad and lengthy of 'Zack Snyder's Justice League'

The best movies of 2020 (take 2)

Are you listening to 'We're Watching Here'?

'Barb and Star' set the bar high for comedy in 2021

Back to the movies

On 15 years as a film critic

Derek DelGaudio made me believe in magic

Trump made us all worse; how do we get better?

'WandaVision' redeems the most boring Avengers

Let's talk about 'Wonder Woman 84' and 'Tenet'