One thing any MSTie should have in their heart is a love of movies. Not just good cinema, but if one doesn't have an appreciation for the misfires, one only appreciates half of what Mystery Science Theater 3000 has to offer. There are many out there who only want to see the finest cinema has to offer and bask in it. They can do what they want. Speaking for myself, personally, I want to see everything. I want to see what people can make. I want to see what people can do. And even if it's a spectacular failure, I want to look into a movie's heart and see what it's trying to accomplish, even if you'll forgive me for being snarky about it. I am a MSTie, after all.
Most people see cinema as an art gallery. I see cinema as a playground. I want to play on everything, ride each slide, experience each part of it, go from one part to something entirely different. I want difference in genre, style, and yes, even quality. To just concentrate on one thing is boring.
And thus, here is a new part of my blog, called My Cinema Playground. Here I offer small blurbs of the new films I get to see every week, while also offering up a new project called Oscar Bait & Switch, where I go through every Academy Award winner and contrast with the popular films of each year.
Cinema Playground Journal
2025: Week 1 (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Damned)
2025: Week 2 (Better Man, Den of Thieves: Pantera, The Last Showgirl)
2025: Week 3 (The Brutalist, One of Them Days, Wolf Man)
2025: Week 4 (Brave the Dark, Flight Risk, Inheritance, Nickel Boys, Presence, Sing Sing, Star Trek: Section 31, Black Box Diaries, Flow)
2025: Week 5 (Companion, Dog Man, Love Me, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Valiant One, September 5, Maria, The Six Triple Eight)
2025: Week 6 (Bring Them Down, Heart Eyes, I'm Still Here, Love Hurts, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl)
2025: Week 7 (Captain America: Brave New World, Paddington in Peru, Oscar Nominated Short Films, The Girl with the Needle)
2025: Week 8 (Emilia Perez, The Monkey, The Unbreakable Boy, No Other Land, Memoir of a Snail, Sugarcane)
2025: Week 9 (Ex-Husbands, Last Breath, My Dead Friend Zoe, Riff Raff)
2025: Week 10 (In the Lost Lands, Mickey 17, Queen of the Ring, Rule Breakers, The Rule of Jenny Pen, Seven Veils)
2025: Week 11 (Black Bag, The Day the Earth Blew Up, Novocaine, Opus, The Electric State, Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna)
2025: Week 12 (The Alto Knights, Ash, Locked, Magazine Dreams, Snow White)
2025: Week 13 (Audrey's Children, Day of Reckoning, Death of a Unicorn, The Penguin Lessons, A Working Man, The Woman in the Yard
2025: Week 14 (The Friend, Hell of a Summer, The Luckiest Man in America, A Minecraft Movie)
2025: Week 15 (The Amateur, Drop, Warfare
2025: Week 16 (Sinners, Sneaks, The Ugly Stepsister, The Wedding Banquet, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Bob Trevino Likes It)
2025: Week 17 (The Accountant 2, The Legend of Ochi, On Swift Horses, Until Dawn)
Oscar Bait & Switch
Vol. 1: 1927-1928 - "A Tale of Two Best Pictures"
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