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Year In Review: The 22 Worst Films of 2011
There are two things you don’t want to watch getting made – sausage and the official Film School Rejects’s year-end worst-of list. Hideous, dirty, bloody, illegal stuff; many animals die in the...
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Year In Review: The 11 Best Action Films of 2011
Some other sites or site runners may look down on lists, but those people are what are known as no-fun douche bags, because really, lists are awesome. They are short, easy to digest little morsels...
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Year In Review: The Great Cinematic Heroes of 2011
There were some supposed protagonists I loathed this year — everyone in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, that asshole narcissist Hal Jordan, the annoying Jack Sparrow — but there were plenty who showed...
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Channel Guide: 5 Shows That Jumped the Shark in 2011
I’m not generally a fan of the phrase “jumped the shark.” I think it’s presumptuous; as if I personally decided the standards with which a show should continue, and how it should be evaluated. I know...
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Year In Review: The Top 11 Trends, Topics, and Debates of 2011
Usually I’m quite cynical about end-of-year lists, as they demand a forced encapsulation of an arbitrary block of time that is not yet over into something simplified. I typically find end-of-year lists...
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Year In Review: The 11 Best Criterion Releases of 2011
This was a hell of a year in The Criterion Collection. Between films about phantom carriages, angry jurors, beasts and beauties, stranded astronauts, international revolutionaries, and great...
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Year In Review: 11 Movies You People Wouldn’t Shut Up About In 2011
This started out as a list of overrated movies, but we (“we” being Rob Hunter and Kevin Carr, rabblerousers) decided fairly quickly that “overrated” is an overused and abused term. Who are we, or...
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The Best Films of 2011: The Editor’s Picks
It has come time once again to move from celebrating the worst, most annoying and most discussed films of the year — something we do at the front of our Year in Review for a reason — and start...
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Year In Review: Harry Potter Takes the 2011 Reject Report Bowl
Here’s how the Christmas weekend broke down: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – $29.5m (+130.7%) $61.9m total Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $20.2m (-48.9%) $79m total The Girl With the...
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Year In Review: The 11 Best Soundtracks and Scores of 2011
It has been quite the year in film, but even more so when it came to the music in those films. We got scores that pushed the envelope, soundtracks that were full of nostalgia and orchestration that...
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Year In Review: The 11 Best Horror Movies of 2011
It seems like every year I find myself disappointed in the horror offerings of the preceding twelve months. Especially if you think of widely released theatrical flicks, few of which ever make the...
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Year In Review: The 11 Best Short Films of 2011
Over the course of the year, curating the Short Film of the Day feature has given me a deep and affecting appreciation of the art form. Before, I hadn’t given much thought to the little bastards, but...
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The Best Films of 2011: The Staff Picks
As you may have noticed, this final week of 2011 has been almost completely taken over by our third annual Year in Review. It was born in 2009 out of our love for lists and your thirst for reading,...
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Year In Review: The 11 Best Foreign Films of 2011
The title of this post is pretty self explanatory, so no introduction is really needed here. But… I do feel compelled to point out the same thing I point out every year. Nailing foreign releases down...
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Year In Review: The Bestest and Baddest Villains of 2011
As we all sit here at Reject HQ, gathered around an absurdly long, but incredibly imposing, table discussing what to do with the nuclear missiles we just “creatively appropriated” from a breakaway...
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The Inexplicable 2nd Annual Junkfood Cinema Awards
When we at Junkfood Cinema heard that we had somehow again avoided outright cancellation, clearly an oversight on the part of hectically busy and woefully unobservant management, we decided to...
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Year in Review: The 11 Best TV Shows of 2011
Because it’s Saturday, we’re talking television. That’s when Amber Humphrey publishes her weekly entry of Channel Guide, our twice-weekly column on all things television. But there’s something else at...
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Year in Review: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Drive’ Elevator Stomping is the Definitive...
In our final 2011 edition of Scenes We Love, a column you’ll be seeing a lot more of in the coming year, we’d like to celebrate the scene that, in our humble opinion, was the definitive and most...
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Year In Review: The 11 Best Movie Trailers of 2011
They say it’s hard to judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to world of cinema and movie marketing (and the plethora of films that hit theaters each weekend), it’s hard not to use a film’s...
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Year In Review: Our List of The Best Lists of 2011
I bet you didn’t think we could get any more meta than we did with last year’s Our List of the Best Lists of 2010, but boom, we have – by making that exact list feature a recurring Year In Review...
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