I spent some time crawling around my Netflix, Movielens, IMDb, iCheckMovies, FlickChart, and The Auteurs accounts, putting together a list of all the movies released this decade that I’ve seen.  I came up with 5 different lists I’ll be posting over the next few days (because my taste in movies really matters to you )

• 10 independent / art house / foreign movies
• 10 movies I didn’t particularly like but probably owe a second viewing
• 15 movies I haven’t seen but are well reviewed and show up on lots of “Top” lists
• 15 personal favorites that I loved but I get it if they don’t get the same praise from others
• 50 critically acclaimed, pretty well known, legit best movies of the decade.

That’s 100 movies across 5 lists that I’ll (hopefully) have up by New Years.

Christmas season is in full swing, so I thought I’d share a pretty great Christmas “album” I put together.  I think it captures the feel and spirit of an awesome poem called In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti published in 1904.  Check out the poem, then click the image above to listen to some of my absolute favorite Christmas songs.