Ranked: Top 10 Stage Musical Movie Adaptations of the 21st Century
As a theater kid in North Dakota gobbling up movie musicals in the absence of live theatre, to a current NYC resident who spends way too much money on TodayTix, the Wicked movie fanfare was built especially for me. Inspired by Wicked, I’ve been rewatching my favorite movie musicals; I’ve also had the opportunity to see almost all of these…
Ranked: The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Films
23 years ago, Peter Jackson - a rising directorial talent from New Zealand - released The Lord of the Rings. Based on the sprawling literary volumes of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings would become one of the most treasured and revered film trilogies in modern film history. Collectively, The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002)…
Ranked: 25 Comfort TV Comedies to Rewatch at Bedtime
My wife Jalisa and I rewatch TV comedies at bedtime. It's an emotional and psychological warm blanket to conclude the day and fall asleep to. We go through a rotation, so when one rewatch ends, the next one begins. The shows in the slides above have been featured players in our rotation for years. This is MY ranking for the…
Ranked: Mission: Impossible Franchise by RT Score
The Mission: Impossible franchise ranked by Rotten Tomatoes critics scores (as of 5.24.25). Over the span of 29 years, Tom Cruise has delivered groundbreaking action alongside heart-pounding thrills and suspense. Certainly one of the most consistent franchises in terms of quality over such a long period of time. Thank you for your service, Ethan Hunt. 🫡
Ranked: Top 10 Will Ferrell Movie Characters
Key context: my wife Jalisa and I did a Will Ferrell filmography rewatch and revisited about a dozen of his movies over the past couple months, and these are my rankings of his best movie CHARACTERS. This ranking was determined from a combination of the following factors: That's it! I know folks will have strong opinions and to that I…
Pixar Movie Draft
From our 'Pixar Movie Draft' podcast episode a couple weeks ago (available on Apple Podcasts & Spotify), we wanted to share some documentation of my (Barrett) and Brad's top 5 picks of our ‼️PERSONAL FAVORITE ‼️ Pixar movies of all time. In the episode, Brad and I went back and forth from 1-to-5 and drafted the Pixar movies that we…
Live Action Movie Batmans Ranked: Batman vs. Bruce Wayne
Well, it's national Batman day, so I thought it would be fun to do a ranking of all the live action Batmen. But usually people only rank Batman and don't break out the duality of the character/performance to include Bruce Wayne separately as well. IMO, there's a variance in quality between the two aspects of the character. Some of the…
