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Updates
| Jan 2026 |
Added mini-previews for
A. I.
Artificial Intelligence (7★),
Airport (7★),
All
About Eve (9★),
Battle
of Britain (7★),
The Boy and the Heron (7★),
Bugonia
(8★),
Captains Courageous
(8★),
Cheaper By the Dozen (6★),
City
Lights (9★),
Dazed
and Confused,
(8★),
Diamonds Are Forever
(8★),
The
Founder
(8★),
Frankenstein (2025),
(8★),
The
Greatest Show on Earth (7★),
Joshua (7★),
The
Little Foxes
(8★),
Meet Joe
Black (7★),
Mudbound
(8★),
My Man
Godfrey
(8★),
Neptune's Daughter (7★),
Only Angels Have Wings
(8★),
Pearl Harbor (6★),
Perfect Blue
(8★),
The
Power of the Dog
(8★),
Quantum of Solace (7★),
The Red
Shoes (9★),
Sinners
(8★),
Sixteen Candles (7★),
Sleepless in Seattle (7★),
Spectre (7★),
The Sting (9★),
Train
Dreams (9★),
Trouble Along the Way (7★),
Vice (7★),
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
(8★),
Wicked (7★),
The Witch (7★).
Added a new section entitled "Movies
By Year". Seems self-explanatory
from where I'm sittin'.
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| Dec 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
1984
(8★),
And
Then There Were None (7★),
The Bishop's Wife
(8★),
Cabaret
(8★),
The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(8★),
Collateral
(8★),
Companion (7★),
Destination Tokyo (7★),
Dodsworth
(8★),
Fantastic Planet (8★),
Grave of
the Fireflies (9★),
The
Greatest Story Ever Told (7★),
High
and Low (9★),
The
Hustler (9★),
The
Island (7★),
The
Killing
(8★),
Laura
(8★),
Pet
Sematary (7★),
Reservoir Dogs (9★),
The
Seventh Seal (9★),
The
Shakiest Gun in the West (7★),
Shazam! (7★),
Stalingrad
(8★),
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (7★),
Twilight Zone: The Movie (7★).
Added two new Dad's Genre Lists:
Do Not Disturb
(disturbing films) and
Road Trip (journeys and quests)
I just started my 2026
DML Project: I am expanding Dad's Top 50
into the long-awaited Dad's Top 100!.
I'll be rolling out the next 50 films one each week. With that I
will be creating a much more detailed page for each movie containing
Dad's Full (Spoiler) Review and Deep Dive.
And the cost to each subscriber? Zero
dollars! In fact, the whole site is free! My payment is bringing
my love of film to the world!
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| Nov 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
10
Cloverfield Lane (7★),
Brief Encounter (9★),
Casino Royale (8★),
Chisum (7★),
Coherence (8★),
Freaks (8★),
Halloween II (7★),
Howl's Moving Castle (8★),
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (8★),
The
Prince of Egypt (7★),
Saturday Night Fever (7★),
Staying Alive (5★),
The
Train Robbers (7★),
The Way
We Were (7★),
Who's
Minding the Mint? (7★),
You Can't
Take It with You (8★).
Added a new Drama Genre List:
Slice of
Life. |
| Oct 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
American Hustle (9★),
Blow (8★),
Disorder in the Court (8★),
Dr.
Jeykll and
Mr. Hyde 1920 (7★),
Dr.
Jeykll and
Mr. Hyde 1941 (7★),
How
the West Was Won (7★),
The
Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923 (7★),
The Hurt Locker (8★),
Mask (8★),
Keeper
of the Flame (8★),
Marty (8★),
Meet John Doe (8★),
Mighty
Joe Young (7★),
Mildred Pierce (8★),
Mud (8★),
The
Mystery of the Wax Museum (7★),
Saw (8★),
Separate Tables (7★),
Son of
Frankenstein (7★),
The
Substance (7★),
Sweet Home Alabama (6★),
Your
Name (9★),
Zulu (8★).
Added color-coded borders to all movie poster
images. |
| Sep 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
10
Things I Hate About You (8★),
28 Days
Later (9★),
America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys (9★),
Attack
the Block (8★),
Castle
in the Sky (8★),
Coco (9★),
Doctor Strange (8★),
Encanto (8★),
The Evil
Dead (8★),
The
Fifth Element (8★),
The
Graduate (8★),
The
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (8★),
Hobson's Choice (8★),
In
Cold Blood (9★),
Last of
the Dogmen (7★),
Madonna: Truth or Dare (7★),
The
Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (8★),
Revenge of the Nerds (7★),
Shrek 2 (8★),
The Vampire Lovers (6★),
The
Wicker Man (8★),
The
Woman in Red (6★). |
| July 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
Angel
and the Badman (7★),
Birds
of Prey (6★),
Bowling for Columbine (8★),
The
Boys from Brazil (8★),
Brother's Keeper (9★),
Dead
Ringers (7★),
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (7★),
Double Indemnity (9★),
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (9★),
The Flash (7★),
The
Four Feathers (8★),
Grey
Gardens (9★),
The Good,
the Bad and the Ugly (9★),
The Impossible Voyage (8★),
Jeremiah Johnson (9★),
JFK (8★),
Justice League (6★),
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (8★),
Justice League: Doom (8★),
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (8★),
Limitless (8★),
The
Longest Day (8★),
Midsommar (7★),
Night
and Fog (9★),
Nomadland (9★),
Nosferatu (2024) (8★),
Nosferatu the Vampyre (9★),
Overlord (7★),
The
Queen's Gambit (9★),
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (7★),
Spider-Man: No Way Home (8★),
Superman (9★),
Superman Returns (6★),
Support Your Local Gunfighter (7★),
They
Were Expendable (7★),
The
Times of Harvey Milk (8★),
Train to Busan (8★),
The
Wild Bunch (9★).
Added two new Dad's Genre Lists:
Document, (Documentaries),
Queer Tier (LGBTQia+
films).
Completely revamped the
Genre Lists section to reflect
more industry-specific main and sub genre categories. Don't worry,
the original Dad's Genre Lists are
still out there, too. Enjoy! |
| Jun 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
The
Banshees of Inisherin (8★),
The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest (9★),
A Bug's
Life (8★),
Space Cowboys (8★),
Fight
Club (9★),
The
General (9★),
The
Green Mile (9★),
How to
Train Your Dragon (9★),
Inside
Out 2 (9★),
Legend
of the Lost (5★),
Loving Vincent (9★),
MacKenna's Gold (7★),
Memphis Belle (7★),
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (8★),
Ocean's Eleven (8★),
Okja (8★),
Pixels (7★),
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (7★),
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (6★),
The
Third Man (10★),
The Town (8★),
The
Wild Robot (9★). |
| May 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
13th (9★),
Bambi (8★),
Big
Hero 6 (9★),
Birdman
of Alcatraz (8★),
A
Bridge Too Far (8★),
A Bug's
Life (8★),
Charlie Wilson's War (9★),
Chronicle (8★),
The
Eiger Sanction (7★),
The Florida Project (8★),
Hercules
(1997) (7★),
It Came
from Outer Space (7★),
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (8★),
The
Man With the Golden Gun (7★),
My
Octopus Teacher (9★),
The
Purple Rose of Cairo (9★),
Robin Hood (9★),
Southern Comfort (8★),
Step
Brothers (7★),
The
Sweet Smell of Success (8★),
The
Thing from Another World (8★),
Valdez
Is Coming (8★),
The
Vietnam War (9★). |
| Apr 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
American Fiction (8★),
Cat
People (1942) (7★),
Deadpool (8★),
Deadpool & Wolverine (7★),
Into
the Wild (9★),
Where
the Sidewalk Ends (8★). |
| Mar 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
The Andromeda Strain (8★),
The
Ballad of Buster Scruggs (8★),
The
Batman (8★),
Breaker Morant (8★),
Les
Diaboliques (8★),
The Manchurian Candidate (9★),
The Menu (8★),
The
Night of the Hunter (10★),
Poor
Things (8★),
Touch
of Evil (9★). |
| Feb 2025 |
Added mini-previews for...
About
Time (10★),
An
Affair to Remember (8★),
Ball of
Fire (8★),
Blade (8★),
Body
Heat (8★),
Burn
After Reading (8★),
Charade (8★),
The Children's Hour (9★),
The
Civil War (10★),
Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (8★),
The
Eagle Has Landed (7★),
Emperor of the North (8★),
Fantastic Four (6★),
Here (9★),
King
Solomon's Mines (7★),
The
Portrait of Dorian Gray (8★),
The Professionals (8★),
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (7★).
Added these new genre lists:
Sweet Revenge, (revenge
is key). |
| Jan 2025 |
Added mini-previews for
Cloud
Atlas (9★),
Furiosa:
A Mad Max Saga (9★),
Fort Apache (8★),
Hombre (8★),
The
House That Dripped Blood
(7★),
John
Wick (8★),
The
Lion in Winter (8★),
Looper (8★),
The Maltese Falcon (8★),
McLintock! (7★),
Metropolis
(10★),
Modern Times
(10★),
Oldboy (9★),
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (8★),
Oppenheimer (10★),
Rob Roy (7★),
Sands of
Iwo Jima
(7★),
Support Your Local Sheriff! (8★),
Taken (8★),
A Trip
to the Moon (9★),
The
Usual Suspects (9★),
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (8★),
The
World's Fastest Indian (8★),
The War
Wagon (7★).
Added these new genre lists:
Drama Class, (pure
drama) Dramedies
(dramatic comedies), Old
Farts (like me),
Pure Laughs (comedy
films), Sci-Fi Pie
(science fiction). |
| Dec 2024 |
Added mini-previews for
After
Hours (8★),
Baby
Driver (8★),
Bicycle Thieves (9★),
Cat
Ballou (7★),
Children of Men (9★),
Christmas in Connecticut (7★),
Cinderella Man (9★),
Die Hard
2 (7★),
Foreign Correspondent (8★),
Godzilla Minus One (9★),
Gremlins (7★),
Hell Is
for Heroes (7★),
Judy (7★),
The
Lady Vanishes (8★),
Marnie (7★),
A
Quiet Place (8★),
A
Quiet Place Part II (7★),
The Reader (8★),
The Sons
of Katie Elder (8★),
Still
Alice (9★),
Uncle
Buck (7★),
Zero
Dark Thirty (8★).
Moved page navigation bar from left side to
top. This is more mobile-friendly. Changed genre lists as follows:
1) Removed Date Night in lieu of adding these two -
Rom-Combos (romantic
comedies),
Rom-Drams (romantic
dramas), 2) added The Beat
(films centered around music), and 3) Split out the Top 20 for each
genre into its own page, with a countdown from #20 to #1. |
| Nov 2024 |
Added mini-previews for
Black
Sunday (7★),
Black
Swan (9★),
The
China Syndrome (8★),
Destroy All Monsters (7★),
Fail-Safe (8★),
The Final Countdown (7★),
Godzilla's Revenge (6★),
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (7★),
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (6★),
Green
Book (9★),
Harlan County, U.S.A. (8★),
Heavy
Metal (7★),
Hellfighters (7★),
I Am
Legend (7★),
I, Tonya
(8★),
The Land
That Time Forgot (6★),
The Last
Man on Earth (7★),
The
Last Samurai (8★),
Life
Itself (8★),
The
Omega Man (7★),
Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs (9★),
The
Song Remains the Same
(8★),
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (9★),
Strange World (7★),
Suicide Squad (6★),
Whiplash (9★),
Wonder Woman 1984 (6★),
X-Men:
Days of Future Past (8★),
X-Men:
First Class (8★).
Added these new genre lists:
Black & White
(racial interactions),
Dark Laughs (black
comedies),
Head Games
(psychological films),
History Lesson (historial
topics),
Kiddie Rides (for
children, mostly),
Mocks & Spoofs
(mockumentaries and satirical films),
SNL Alum (films with
Saturday Night Live actors) |
| Oct 2024 |
Added mini-previews for
Altered States (7★),
American Gigolo (7★),
The Amityville Horror (7★),
Avergers: Age of Ultron (7★),
The Bad
News Bears (7★),
Batman
& Robin (5★),
Batman Forever (6★),
The
Big Country (8★),
Bullitt
(8★),
Chernobyl (9★),
Cross
of Iron (8★),
Death
Wish (7★),
Elmer
Gantry (7★),
The
Iron Claw (7★),
Mackintosh and T.J. (7★),
McQ (7★),
Midway
(7★),
Modern Problems (6★),
Neighbors (6★),
The Omen
(8★),
Phantasm (7★),
The Pit
and the Pendulum (7★),
Planet Terror (7★),
Super
Size Me (7★),
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! (7★),
The
Swimmer (8★),
Tarzan
(7★),
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 (7★),
Wages of
Fear (8★),
Wolfen
(6★).
Added these new genre lists:
Cops and Crooks (Crime),
Game Day (Sports),
Totally Epic, (film
epics)... and for
Halloween - Oh, The
Horror! |
| Sep 2024 |
Added mini-previews for
A Boy and
His Dog (6★),
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (8★),
Conan
the Destroyer (6★),
Creepshow (7★),
Dick
Tracy (6★),
Friday
the 13th (7★),
The
House of Usher (7★),
Ikiru
(9★),
James
and the Giant Peach (7★),
The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (6★),
Quatermass and the Pit (7★),
Quest
for Fire (7★),
Red
Beard (8★),
Sense
and Sensibility (8★),
Top Gun
(7★),
True
Lies (7★),
What
Women Want (7★),
The Whale
(8★). |
| Aug 2024 |
Reorganized, breaking each mini-preview into
its own page. Altered page design to be more mobile-friendly. Made
left navigation bar an Inline Frame, so I only have to update it in
one place. Whew!
Added mini-previews for
Alien 3
(7★),
Alien Resurrection (7★),
The American President (7★),
Batman Returns (8★),
Broken Arrow (7★),
Brubaker
(7★),
From
Here to Eternity (9★),
Grease
(7★),
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (7★),
Iron Man
2 (7★),
The
Lost World: Jurassic Park (7★),
Superman III (5★). |
| July 2024 |
Added mini-previews for
Cinema Paradiso
(10★),
Jumanji
(7★),
The
Last Picture Show (8★),
Molly's Game (8★),
Moonlight (8★),
The
Mountain (7★),
Nightmare on Elm Street (7★),
Scent of
a Woman (8★),
School
of Rock (7★),
Star
Trek: The Final Frontier (6★),
Star
Trek: The Motion Picture (7★),
Star
Trek: The Search for Spock (7★),
Star
Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (6★),
Star
Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (7★),
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (7★),
Star
Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (5★).
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| May 2024 |
Major site overhaul,
changed to 10-star rating system; added several genre lists.
Added mini-previews for
101
Dalmatians (6★),
The Alamo
(7★),
American Graffiti (7★),
Alladin
(8★),
The
Big Lebowski (8★),
The
Born Losers (6★),
Casualties of War (7★),
Chato's
Land (7★),
Enron:
The Smartest Men in the Room (8★),
The Fabelmans
(9★),
A
Fistful of Dollars (8★),
From
Russia With Love (7★),
My
Neighbor Totoro (9★),
Norma
Rae (7★),
One
Hundred and One Dalmatians (7★),
Paris,
Texas (9★),
The
Passion of Joan of Arc (10★),
Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves (6★),
Seven
(8★),
Suicide Squad (7★),
Swiss
Family Robinson (7★),
Spider-Man 3 (7★),
The Stand
(7★),
Temple Grandin (8★),
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (7★),
Up in
Smoke (7★),
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (9★).
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