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Happy new year! It’s finally 2021! This is our favorite, most important episode of the year! In case you were wondering what a terrible, relatively “movie-less” year like 2020 brought to us in terms of noteworthy cinema, you can hear the Top 10 Movies of 2020, brought to you by your host Jason Pyles (aka “Jay of the Dead”) and his buddies from Movie Podcast Weekly, including the actor Karl Huddleston, the professional Geek Ryan Elliott of the Geek Cast Live Podcast, and a Guy Named Andy. (William Rowan Jr. is absent during this episode.)
Episode 044 was recorded on January 4, 2021, and it was released on January 5, 2021. This is a hybrid episode brought to you by Considering the Cinema and Movie Podcast Weekly. If you’re a Horror movie fan, listen to Jay of the Dead’s Top 10 HORROR Movies of 2020 episode here.
Thanks for listening to Considering the Cinema Podcast and Considering Horror Cinema, The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Movie Podcasting…
SHOW NOTES: Considering Horror Cinema Ep. 044
[ 00:00:00 ] – Introduction
— Happy New Year 2021!
— This episode is a Considering the Cinema / Movie Podcast Weekly hybrid release.
— Jay welcomes his co-hosts: Karl, Ryan and a guy named Andy. (William is absent.)
— The February 2021 MPW release: Reviewing the Colonel Sanders movie, “A Recipe for Seduction” and Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.
[ 00:04:11 ] – General Thoughts on the Cinema of 2020: An Overview
[ 00:18:19 ] – THE TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2020 (and some other additions)
Jason’s Top 10 Movies of 2020 (Mostly Non-Horror)
1. 1917
2. The Decline
3. The Lodge
4. The Informer
5. Greenland
6. Sputnik
7. Possessor
8. Blood on Her Name
9. Just Mercy
10. Only
Andy’s Top 10 Movies of 2020 (Sort of…)
1. The Lego Movie (2014) – tied with – The Lego Movie The Second Part (2019)
2. Hamilton
3. The Good Place (TV series)
4. Possessor (Andy has never seen this movie.)
5. Extraction
6. Trolls (2016) and Trolls World Tour (2020)
7. A Simple Favor (2018)
8. Sicario Part 3 (Not a Real Movie)
9. Timmy Failure / Mulan / Magic Camp / Artemis Fowl / Onward (A five-way tie)
10. Enola Holmes
Karl’s Top 10 Movies of 2020
1. 6 Underground (2019)
2. The Invisible Man
3. The Midnight Sky
4. Promising Young Woman
5. Underwater
6. Soul
7. The Hunt
8. Just Mercy
9. Not actually Karl’s No. 9 … he’s just mentioning it: Hillbilly Elegy
10. Book: “The Lincoln Conspiracy” by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
Ryan’s Top 10 Movies of 2020
1. Hamilton
2. Onward
3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
4. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
5. The Devil All the Time
6. The King of Staten Island
7. Extraction
8. Timmy Failure
9. Bad Education
10. Enola Holmes
[ 01:23:16 ] – Honorable Mentions of 2020 (11 – 15)
Jason’s Honorable Mentions of 2020
11. Swallow
12. Extraction
13. Spenser Confidential
14. Inherit the Viper
15. The Silencing
Andy’s Honorable Mentions of 2020
11. The Old Guard
12. The Silence (2019)
Karl’s Honorable Mentions of 2020
11. Contagion (2011)
Ryan’s Honorable Mentions of 2020
* * * * *
[ 01:30:08 ] – Guilty Pleasures of 2020
Jason: Bullets of Justice
Andy: * * * * *
Karl: Last Christmas (2019)
Ryan: * * * * *
[ 01:33:47 ] – Biggest Disappointments / Heartbreaks of 2020
[ 01:37:28 ] – Dishonorable Mentions and WORST Movies of 2020
Wrap-Up
Links for this episode:
Jay says check out his MPW buddies here:
— Movie Podcast Weekly
— On Twitter: Karl Huddleston
— On Twitter: Geek Cast Ryan Elliott
— Ryan’s show: Geek Cast Live Podcast
— On Twitter: William Rowan Jr.
— William’s shows: Movie Moments Podcast and The Sci-Fi Podcast
Jason recommends indie musician Nate Johnivan’s Help Wanted EP
Want to hear more Horror movie reviews? Check out Jay’s new weekly horror podcast:
– Horror Movie Weekly.com
– On Twitter: @horror_weekly
– Meet Jay’s New Co-hosts in Ep. 071
Don’t miss the recent Top 10 shows:
— Jay of the Dead on Movie Podcast Weekly’s Top 10 Movies (All Genres) of 2019
— Jay of the Dead’s Top 10 Horror Movies of 2019 with special guest Lady Phantom!
— Jay of the Dead’s The Top 10 Horror Movies of the 2010s Decade, with special guests GregaMortis and Ron Martin!
— Jay of the Dead on Movie Podcast Weekly’s Top 10 Movies (All Genres) of 2019
Considering the Cinema links:
On Twitter: @ConsiderCinema
Film Blog / Audio Podcast: ConsideringTheCinema.com
HORROR-Only Content: ConsideringHorrorCinema.com
Email: ConsideringTheCinema@gmail.com
Voicemail: (801) 215-9704
Letterboxd: Letterboxd.com/ConsiderCinema
I am shocked you didn’t like The Wolf of Snow Hollow! Great blend of crime and horror, and my assumption is you didn’t like the over the topness of Jim Cummings. I loved it and it is a definite buy!
I thought this year had a surprising amount of good movies despite the amount of non releases. Below I will put what I thought to be a 7* and above.
1. Invisible Man 9.5*
2. 1917 9.5*
3. Kid detective 9*
4. Fatman 9*
5. The Wolf of Snow Hollow 9*
6. The outpost 9*
7. The Hunt 8.5*
8. The Last Full Measure 8*
9. Force of nature 8*
10. The gentleman 8*
11. The wretched 8*
12. Unhinged 8*
13. Guns akimbo 7.5*
14. Underwater 7.5*
15. True Fiction 7.5*
16. Possessor 7.5*
17. The Lodge 7.5*
18. VFW 7*
19. Freaky 7*
20. Becky 7*
21. Sonic the Hedgehog 7*
22. Hubie Halloween 7*
There were a handful of other rental quality movies as well.
I’m glad in a year of disappointments, I can still count on you to wrap the year up, Jay. Thanks for continuing what you are doing.
Why is Andy even on this podcast? Jay puts in so much work, time, and effort into these lists and Andy just makes a complete mockery of it. Why not replace him with someone who is actually going to contribute something meaningful? All of his contributions were a complete waste of time. Otherwise great podcast, thanks. I feel like there are a lot of podcasters who would kill for a chance to do a top 10 list with Jay of the Dead and this guy just squanders it.