Dallin: The Film Fanatic

With a staggering amount of Academy Award nominations, along with widespread critical acclaim, does La La Land live up to the hype? The film stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as an aspiring jazz musician and actress respectively, who fall in love in Los Angeles, otherwise known as La La Land.

With a little help from Netflix, I have re-watched the original four Superman films recently as well as Batman v Superman for the first time. Man of Steel and Superman Returns are still fresh in my mind such that I could rank the seven Superman films to date. Superman has had quite a run in his cinematic outings. Some say Henry Cavil is terrible, others say Christopher Reeve is the definitive Superman. His films have wavered to flat out unwatchable to some of the best comic book movies ever. This ranking will only include the theatrical, live-action Superman films, so the animated films don't count. But do you know what does? Batman v Superman does as it will be included on this list. It has Superman, it's live-action, and it was released in theaters so it fits the bill. This is gonna be an interesting ranking so get ready. I will not spoil anything from the seven films so you don't need to worry about any spoiler warnings in this ranking. So let's get to it.

Hidden Figures tells the story of three, african-american, mathematicians who had crucial parts in the Space Race of the late 50s, early 60s. It doesn't shy away from displaying the many difficulties of being an african-american in a time of being involved in one of Americas most underrated events, which I appreciated. The cast members include Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, and Jim Parsons.

2016 was a great year for movies. We had unexpected surprises, predictable successes, but also, some terrifying flops. With this list, I won't be focusing on the negative, only the positive. I know I may see some more films that came out this past year in the future, but when I did that with my list of favorite films for 2015, I didn't finish that till April of 2016. Yes, this blog existed before May 2016, but that's a post for another time. Anyway, in an effort to not wait till April, I thought that I'd immediately do this list right as we've started 2017. There will be some SLIGHT SPOILERS in this so "CONTINUE AT SLIGHT SPOILER RISK!

I'm super excited to see this trailer. Ever since the fifty second teaser came out, this film has jumped, or raced, onto the list of films I'm excited to see this year. That list is coming together and you'll be able to see that soon, but this post is for Cars 3. The darker and, dare I say it, sophisticated tone in the first teaser was an unexpected surprise and I look forward to see how it all turns out in the film, assuming that same tone will be in the film. It's not uncommon for films to have tonally different trailers apart from the film. But I'm hoping that is not the case and that the tone established will be in the final film. So one of the things I'd like to see in this trailer is that tone continue. I'd also like to see more racing and more of the impressive visuals that was in that teaser. I thought the visuals in that teaser were amazing. It looked like it was something out of this Asphalt 8 game I play, which is also a racing game as well. One...