4th Annual Defacto Film Awards
To celebrate the upcoming Oscars, we are pleased to announce the Best of 2021 nominees and winners in eighteen categories. We selected the top five picks in the following categories: [...]
2002 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2002
2002, if nothing else, was a stellar year for genre reinvention. While audiences were lining up in doves for fantasy epics and superheroes way back in 2002 with The Lord [...]
Smiling Friends (Adult Swim)
Adult Swim quietly launched the first season of their hit new show Smiling Friends on HBO Max late Tuesday night (or really early Wednesday morning, depending on how you want [...]
The Best Films of 2021-Robert Butler
It was a year for looking back and documenting a specific time and era. Perhaps filmmakers wanted audiences to escape our modern, COVID reduced world as democracy appears to be [...]
Wes Anderson Retrospective (Film Rankings from Worst to Best)
Wes Anderson's tenth film, The French Dispatch, was just recently released to some polarizing reactions from both critics and audiences, but it still has its champions. The most common question [...]
Mulholland Drive (Spotlight Review) 20th Anniversary!
The cautionary tale of Hollywood and what lies beneath the surface of all the glitz, glamour, and stardom underlies a very dark, seedy, and cutthroat world. 20 years later, David [...]
Possession (Spotlight Review) 40th Anniversary!
Now being re-released theatrically with a pristine 4k restoration in celebration of its 40th anniversary by Metrograph Pictures, the cult following of Andrzej Zulawski's 1981 psychological horror film Possession should [...]
2011 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2011
Each time I do these retrospectives I go all the way back and revisit many films that were released in the given year. I found that there was a common [...]
2006 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2006–15 Year Anniversary
It was a time where the War in Iraq saturated the news but it was on filmmaker's minds in 2006 as well, as George W Bush's incompetence and lies were [...]
2021 Fall Movie Preview-18 New Films to See This Fall Season!
With fall just around the corner, it’s hard to determine just how many of the exceptional films I mentioned below will make the final top 10 list at the end [...]