Cinema 2009: The Ultimate Montage
The year is about over. In fact, on Sunday when we at FSR return from our little mini-vacation, we will spend an entire week breaking down the year that was, tearing it to pieces and trying to put it...
View ArticleMerry Christmas from Film School Rejects!
“Oh, the silent majesty of a winter’s morn… the clean, cool chill of the holiday air… an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer…” – Clark W. Griswold (Chevy Chase),...
View ArticleYear in Review: The 15 Best Trailers of 2009
There are a lot of movie lists floating around these days, and while they don’t always share the same choices there is one thing they all have in common… a shared implication that the movies on the...
View ArticleEditor’s Picks: The Ten Best Movies of 2009
Perhaps one of the greatest honors, yet most difficult tasks of my year is the creation of my annual top ten list. As this site’s editor in chief (or whatever title suits me this week), I get to...
View ArticleYear in Review: Best DVD Releases of 2009
I wasn’t quite sure at first how to tackle a list of the Best DVDs of the Year… by definition, aren’t the best dvds the ones containing the best movies? (Yes, they are.) We don’t want this to be a...
View ArticleYear in Review: Ten Best Horror Films of 2009
I’m going to be straight with you right from the start: this list sucks. I had an easier time coming up with just 15 films of the past 10 years to praise than finding 10 in the year 2009. There are...
View ArticleYear in Review: The 10 Best Performances of 2009
Often “Best of” lists include a bunch of the Oscar bait roles that we hear about at the end of every year (ex. “I hear Helen Mirren is great in that movie that opened in one theater in LA!”) but in...
View ArticleYear in Review: The 10 Worst Movies of 2009
Editor’s Intro: In our Year in Review, we’ve done a lot to celebrate the best films of the year. We’ve chronicled our favorite performances, talked about the movies that rocked us in an above-average...
View ArticleYear in Review: 10 Performances of 2009 We Wish We Could Forget
As the year winds down to a close and with award season is already underway, everyone is looking back on all the fine performances in cinema over 2009. But to truly recall all the great performances,...
View ArticleYear in Review: The Best Comedies of 2009
End of the year lists usually come in tens or some sort of multiple of ten but here, as you will see, there are only seven slots. No, I’m not purposely trying to be subversive, nor was this result of...
View ArticleYear in Review: The 15 Best Foreign Films of 2009
Goddamn I’m sick of making lists. Thankfully this is the last one of the year for me, and even better it’s the one I find most important. Foreign movies don’t always get the attention or the exposure...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Best Movies of 2009
In the last month of the past decade, we put our readership through the ringer. We unleashed list after list of our favorites of the decade and the year. It was a tumultuous time at Reject HQ, as many...
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