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Decade pt. viii ( Top Five 00’s Movies – 2007 )

October 27, 2009

I’m fighting off some post-Vegas jet lag this morning. Thus, I am calling in my last post-dated blog entry. Yes gang, starting tomorrow, I’m back to posting live. It doesn’t hurt that today was on tap to be the next entry in my Decade Series…and it also doesn’t hurt that today’s entry is the first…

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Ryan McNeil
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Waking Up in Vegas (Top Five Vegas Movies)

October 20, 2009

Hatter here. …Yes I’m actually writing this one, I didn’t schedule it to post a week or two ago. I know it might seem weird that a guy takes a moment out from a week of post-nuptual bliss to blog, but this is the one post I couldn’t do ahead of time. See, I wanted…

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Ryan McNeil
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Can’t Help Falling In Love (Top Five Movie Weddings)

October 14, 2009

Seventy eight hours from now, my days as a single man are over. It’s kinda funny to write that, for the same reason that jokes about my impending doom bore me – when you’ve co-habitated with someone for a few years, you have a pretty good idea what you’re in for. But this is not…

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Ryan McNeil
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On The Road Again ( Top Five Road Trip Movies )

October 6, 2009

So, as some of you may recall, this past Saturday I claimed I felt like this… That was because I knew my brother and I would be on our way back from Lord-knows-where after taking a road trip together to celebrate my upcoming wedding. Well, for those of you who might be curious, it turns…

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Ryan McNeil
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Decade pt. vii ( Top Five 00’s Movies – 2006 )

September 29, 2009

With another month gone, it’s time for another entry in my Decade Series, with 2006 being the next year up. This was perhaps the biggest year of the decade for indie titles, with movies like BABEL, THE QUEEN, and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE winning wide acclaim. Unfortunately, it also started a downward slope for indies, as…

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Ryan McNeil
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Say My Name (Top Five Worst Film Titles)

September 24, 2009

(Good luck getting that song out of your head today!). My days have been getting off to a bad start this week. I could blame it on the fact that I’ve been sleeping through my alarm. I could blame it on the fact that I’m in a post TIFF and post U2 hangover. But nay…

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Ryan McNeil
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Party Life (Top Five TIFF Memories)

September 8, 2009

The Toronto International Film Festival starts this week. I gotta tell you, it’s a tad surreal not to have spent the last two weeks mapping out ten days worth of screenings hour by hour. TIFF is a lot of fun, but believe me – it takes a lot of work to have that much fun!…

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Ryan McNeil
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