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Happy Oscar Day!  I gotta say, 2016 was a pretty good year for movies!  Overall I was quite pleased with the films that came out this year.  It was a challenge picking just 10 of my favorites.  What were your favorites of the year?  Here are mine. 10. Hacksaw Ridge That Mel Gibson might be bat shit crazy, but he makes freakin' good films!  This movie tells the true story of Desmond Doss who served in WWII without firing a single weapon.  He wants to join the military as a medic, but because it's against his religion to kill, he refuses to touch a weapon, even through training.  Everyone thinks he's a joke and a coward, but he proves them all wrong when he rescues something like 75 wounded soldiers from the battlefield to safety.  It's an amazing story and an amazing film!  Andrew Garfield did a fantastic job!  He won't win, but I'm glad he was recognized for his work.  I see a very bright future ahead for him.  Also, S...

It's that time again!  As always I will post my ten favorite films of the year on Oscar night, this Sunday!  Please enjoy this list of movies that I really did not like from 2016!  What were some of the films you hated? 10. Zoolander 2 I will admit that I laughed quite a few times.  It was pretty funny and I think they did a decent job at making a film that the fans of the original Zoolander would like.  But it did fall flat overall, and I think they were trying too hard at some parts.  In the beginning of the movie, Derek's Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Want to Learn to do Other Stuff Good Too collapses, killing his wife and injuring Hansel.  Because he's so dumb, Derek is deemed unfit to keep his son, Derek Junior, who gets sent away to an orphanage.  Derek and Hansel have a falling out and don't speak to each other for 15 years.  Meanwhile, famous celebrities are being murdered and posting their farewell messages to social me...