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)
2025: Week 18 (Bonjour Tristesse, Raising the Bar: The Alma Richards Story, Rosario, The Surfer, Thunderbolts)
2025: Week 19 (Clown in a Cornfield, Fight or Flight, Juliette & Romeo, Shadow Force)
2025: Week 20 (Final Destination: Bloodlines, Hurry Up Tomorrow, The Ruse, Things Like This)
2025: Week 21 (Friendship, The Last Rodeo, Lilo & Stitch, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 2, Fear Street: Prom Queen)
2025: Week 22 (Bring Her Back, Karate Kid: Legends, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Tornado)
2025: Week 23 (Ballerina, Dangerous Animals, The Phoenician Scheme, The Ritual, Predator: Killer of Killers)
2025: Week 24 (How to Train Your Dragon, The Life of Chuck, Materialists, The Unholy Trinity)
2025: Week 25 (28 Years Later..., Bride Hard, Elio)
2025: Week 26 (F1, Hot Milk, M3GAN 2.0)
2025: Week 27 (Jurassic World: Rebirth, Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado, Heads of State, Long Distance)
2025: Week 28 (Abraham's Boys, Superman)
2025: Week 29 (Eddington, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Smurfs)
2025: Week 30 (The Fantastic 4: First Steps; The Home; House on Eden; Oh, Hi!; Sorry, Baby; Happy Gilmore 2)
2025: Week 31 (The Bad Guys 2, The Naked Gun, She Rides Shotgun, Together, War of the Worlds)
2025: Week 32 (Freakier Friday, My Mother's Wedding, Sketch, Strange Harvest, Weapons)
2025: Week 33 (Americana, East of Wall, Jimmy and Stiggs, Nobody 2, Went Up the Hill, Witchboard, Right Always Comes)
2025: Week 34 (Eden, Honey Don't!, Ne Zha 2, Primitive, War, Relay, Eenie Meanie)
2025: Week 35 (Caught Stealing, The Roses, The Short Game, The Toxic Avenger, The Thursday Murder Club)
2025: Week 36 (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Lurker, Splitsville, The Threesome, Tinã, Twinless)
2025: Week 37 (The Baltimorons, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, The Long Walk, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Traumatika)
2025: Week 38 (Afterburn, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Him, The History of Sound, The Senior, Xeno)
2025: Week 39 (Dead of Winter, Eleanor the Great, Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie, The Lost Bus, One Battle After Another, The Strangers: Chapter 2)
2025: Week 40 (Anemone, Bone Lake, Coyotes, Good Boy, The Smashing Machine, V/H/S/Halloween)
Oscar Bait & Switch
Vol. 1: 1927-1928 - "A Tale of Two Best Pictures"
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