Last Decade’s Cinema is about the movies of ten years ago. For each subject, I examine what led up to its release, what it's like to watch now, and what happened in the years since. So without further ado, let’s look into last year’s cinema …
Okay, maybe a little more ado.
If this blog’s all about throwing it back, why bother talking about recent stuff? Well, it’s my blog, so I can do whatever I want forever. But because of my lifelong compulsion to defend myself, I invented a few more reasons:
It’s fun! If I’m not getting any money from this yet, it better be fun.
I deserve to get something out of seeing some of this crap. Petty, perhaps, but what’s a personal blog for?
It’s proof that I didn’t stop watching new movies ten years ago. Too many culture writers take the retrospective tack because they’re stuck there.
It’ll give some insight into my taste in movies.If you don’t vibe with it, you can bail with no further time wasted.
It’ll show what I’ll go out of my way to check out. This might matter even more than the previous point because I won’t discuss every release from each year I cover.
I saved that point for last to highlight something important: I didn’t watch every movie in 2024. I even missed some of the biggest ones, for one reason or another. So if I don’t mention your fave, it might simply have eluded me. Sorry! I’ll watch even more movies than I already do when I’m paid for it.
To everything (turn! turn! turn!), there is a season (turn! turn! turn!). Let’s split up these write-ups that way. If you’ve ever wanted to time-travel, just click the links below.