As the year winds down we’re giving everyone a chance to run down their Top 10 Movies of 2018. This list can also include some of your Worst Movies, Top TV shows or Worst TV Shows. If you’re not a Goblin but want to contribute your own list, please email Mr. WOW.
1. Upgrade
A great little sci-fi action thriller with a clever twist near the end that I didn’t see coming. Directed by Leigh Whannell who wrote some of the Saw and Insidious movies.
2. Radius
A small sci-fi movie with a funny twist on the serial killer genre. It is not an action movie and there are not many special effects, but the premise is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DaJbB8hyAM
3. Game Night
Although this is a mainstream movie, I found it to be both funny and surprising.
4. Unsane
A great low budget thriller by Steven Soderbergh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeIQecS3ebo
5. Gringo
Another great comedy. Charlize Theron is an absolute bitch in this one, and you’ll love to hate her.
6. Annihilation
It might be a little light plot vise, but I found it to be a great surreal visual trip.
7. Wheelman
Similar to Walter Hill’s The Driver. It is an action movie like they used to make them.
8. Wind River
A fine action movie and you get to see Elizabeth Olsen in a thong. What’s not to like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7GkWwaIR9Y
9. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
I didn’t like the first one, but this was a decent thriller.
10. Atomic Blonde
A stylish and brutal action thriller.
Worst of 2018
1. Incredibles II
None of the magic of the first one and all the virtue-signaling really harms it
2. Deadpool 2
I did not find it funny one bit and CGI action and superhero stuff is not really my thing.
3. A Quiet Place
Completely void of logic, it becomes an infuriating watch.
4. Ready Player One
Bad CGI, a silly plot. Horrible.
Best of TV
1. Disenchantment
Although it is not up to the standard of the first many seasons of The Simpsons, I found Matt Groening’s latest to be good entertainment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_RnJcb8Ig
Worst of TV
1. Maniac
Pretentious crap. I made it all the way to episode 5 until I had to Google if it was ever going to make sense or have a coherent narrative. Nope.
2. Legion
Everything that worked in season 1 somehow got completely lost in season 2 even though the ingredients looked the same.
