Best Discoveries of 2021: My Top 10
At the end of each year I try to compile all the movies I spent the most time thinking about through the year. These aren’t necessarily...
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awolverton77
Dec 24, 20218 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: Film Noir
(Last year's Part I and Part II) A brief introduction: I watched a fair amount of film noir in 2021, but not nearly as many as I saw in...
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awolverton77
Dec 23, 20217 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: Westerns
Last year's westerns I don’t know exactly when I picked up my newfound interest in westerns, but I suspect it had something to do with...
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awolverton77
Dec 19, 20217 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: SF and Horror
(Last year's discoveries) I place science fiction and horror together since they were often connected in the days of early cinema, a time...
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awolverton77
Dec 15, 20216 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: The 2000s
(Last year's list here) If you know me, you know that most of my movie-watching consists of films from 40, 50, 60 or more years ago. I...
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awolverton77
Dec 14, 20214 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1990s
(Here's last year's look at the '80s and '90s.) I saw so few movies during the 1990s that practically everything is new to me, so you’ll...
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awolverton77
Dec 13, 20214 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1980s
(Here's last year's look at the '80s and '90s.) Only in the past few years have I come to appreciate the 1980s. It wasn’t all bad hair...
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awolverton77
Dec 12, 20215 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1970s
After the 1940s, my favorite decade is the ‘70s. Although this is when I grew up, there are still many films from that decade I’ve yet to...
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awolverton77
Dec 11, 20215 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1960s
Last year’s list The 1960s tends to get the short shrift of my movie-watching time, stuck between film noir of the 1950s and the...
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awolverton77
Dec 10, 20215 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1950s
Last year's discoveries from the 1950s Please note that all genre films will have their own postings later in this journey. Forbidden...
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awolverton77
Dec 9, 20214 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1940s
Last year's list from the 1940s Please note that all genre films will have their own postings later in this journey. You’d think from...
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awolverton77
Dec 8, 20211 min read
2021 Discoveries in Movies and Books
I take great joy in discovering new-to-me movies and books and making lists about them. On this page you'll find several different...
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awolverton77
Dec 8, 20214 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1930s
My 1930s discoveries from last year Because I’ve largely eliminated genre pictures from these lists (they’ll be covered separately), I...
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awolverton77
Dec 7, 20215 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1920s
From last year, my Best of 2020: The 1920s Today begins my journey through my favorite movie discoveries from (mostly) each decade. Some...
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awolverton77
Dec 6, 20213 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: Crime Fiction
Here’s last year’s discoveries in crime fiction, and this year I have even more titles: Dark Passage (1946), Nightfall (1947), Cassidy’s...
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awolverton77
Dec 5, 20213 min read
Best Discoveries of 2021: Books on Movies
Today I’m kicking off my Best Discoveries of 2021 lists, a series of books and movies I enjoyed during the year in a variety of...
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