Kelly Bedard

We’re not exaggerating when we say that we can’t remember a year of movies better than this one. The prestige dramas were good, the action movies were good, the indie darlings were incredible. There were great superhero movies and great rom-coms and great monster movies and great war movies and even a great musical. Why […]

  Kelly Bedard

There’s so much TV these days that it’s impossible to keep up with it all. Nonetheless, we’ve tried to capture the best of the best on this list, representing a range of shows from the incredibly diverse TV landscape that made 2017 so memorable. Who Qualifies? Any show that released new episodes on TV or […]

  Kelly Bedard

  Over the coming weeks I’ll be unveiling my rankings of every single new release I saw in 2017. There are over a hundred of them, it’ll take awhile.   Standard Disclaimer So You Don’t Yell At Me: This Is Not A List Of the Best Films Of the Year. This is not a definitive […]

  Kelly Bedard

2016 was an amazing year of TV- one of the most eclectic, challenging, entertaining seasons in history with too many brilliant shows to count. We tried to watch as many of them as possible to accurately capture what stood out this year. We obviously failed- it’s literally impossible to watch everything- but we think this […]

  Kelly Bedard

2016 was a pretty decent year in movies, marked by some really exceptional performances and a couple scripts for the ages. In choosing our winners, we tried to strike a balance between the inarguable and the under-appreciated, differing from the Oscars wherever possible. The result is a list that contains a couple massive hits and […]

  Kelly Bedard

For the past four years, I’ve been ranking every film I see- just the new releases, from January 1st to December 31st. The rankings are subjective, based entirely on how much I enjoyed and/or connected with or appreciated the film rather than on some sort of objective artistic criteria. Basically, this is a list of […]

  Kelly Bedard

For the past four years, I’ve been ranking every film I see- just the new releases, from January 1st to December 31st. The rankings are subjective, based entirely on how much I enjoyed and/or connected with or appreciated the film rather than on some sort of objective artistic criteria. Basically, this is a list of […]

  Anya Wassenberg

The Gypsy Cuban Project- Havana Night Sessions Willie Bobo – Dig My Feeling Six Degrees Records- Zomba Prison Project Revolutionary Snake Ensemble- I Want That Sound! Sao Paolo Underground- Cantos Invisiveis  Kaia Kater – Nine Pin Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights- Quelbe! Music of the U.S. Virgin Islands Baaba Maal – the Traveller