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Top Ten Favorite Films of 2015

Happy Oscar Day!  For the second year in a row, I'm not really feeling the Oscar race this year.  But unlike last year, I actually do like many of the films that are up, I just didn't get around to watching most of the Best Picture nominees.  I am, however, extremely excited to see Leo FINALLY take it home!!! 10. Ex Machina Creepy as hell!  But very good!  But creepy!  But good!  But oh the nightmares!  So good, though!  When Caleb, an employee at a huge tech company wins a company contest for a week long retreat in the middle of nowhere at the CEO's private resort, he finds himself a participant of a very interesting artificial intelligence experiment.  The CEO, Nathan, played brilliantly by Oscar Issac, has created a robot he calls Ava, played by Alicia Vikander.  Caleb's role is to determine if Ava passes the Turing Test, a test to see if artificial intelligence can pass as human.  The deeper Caleb goes in this experimen...

Top 10 Least Favorite Films of 2015

It's that time of year again!  The Oscars are right around the corner.  And you know what that means.  Kim posts her most and least favorite films of the past year.  First up is my list of least favorite films.  I thought 2015 was a pretty great year for films.  I actually struggled quite a bit making my least favorite list because most of the films I saw from 2015 I liked.  So the first half-ish of this list contain some pretty decent movies.  It doesn't mean I didn't like them, it just means there were movies that I liked more. 10. Jurassic World This is one of those movies that I rather liked, but not more than every other movie I saw, save the final nine on this list.  I'm still shocked that this movie made as much money as it did; I had no idea how many people wanted to see it!  I mean, I like the first Jurassic Park, but I feel like it is one of those franchises that should be put to bed, and I thought most others felt the sam...