The staff at Filmic Magazine is proud to present its fifth annual Top 10 list! Filmic contributors were asked to vote on their favorite movies of the year and discuss the merits. These are the results. HONORABLE MENTIONS Avengers: Infinity War (Dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo) A Quiet Place (Dir. John Krasinski) THE TEN 10. … Continue reading
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Top 10 Films of 2017
The staff at Filmic Magazine is excited to present its fourth annual Top 10 feature! Over a period of two weeks, Filmic members were asked to submit ranked lists reflecting the very best 2016 films they saw. The following is the final ranked aggregate. HONORABLE MENTIONS Logan (dir James Mangold) In this current era of superheroes and shared universes … Continue reading
Coco and Latinx Representation
by Courtney Ravelo If you take a look at the list of films Pixar has released since its inception in 1995, the results are resoundingly white; as in they are animated movies starring and created by white people. If you do a quick Google search of the actors behind the voices in most Pixar movies, … Continue reading
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
by PJ Yerman (*SPOILERS AHEAD*) Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the eighth installment in the Skywalker saga, picking up right where 2015’s The Force Awakens left off and sees the return of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) as well as General Leia (Carrie Fisher), Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega), and Poe Dameron (Oscar Issac) … Continue reading
Top 10 Films of 2016
The staff at Filmic Magazine is excited to present its third annual Top 10 feature! Over a period of one week, Filmic members were asked to submit ranked lists reflecting the very best 2016 films they saw. 21 lists were ultimately received and 66 titles of considerable diversity were named. The following is the final … Continue reading
Worst Films of 2016
With our annual top 10 list coming soon, we couldn’t resist putting together our first “Worst of” list. For as much as we love to gush about our favorite movies here at Filmic, getting to vent the rage that a truly awful film inspires is sometimes just as satisfying. And so here we present 11 … Continue reading
Best Horror Films of 2016
In a year largely vilified because of its violence, upheaval and bitter social schisms, it makes sense that the genre to receive an abnormal boost in success would be horror. 2016 delivered a mini-renaissance for horror movies that hasn’t been seen in some time. As you’ll see in our list celebrating a dozen of our … Continue reading
Q&A: Tyler Macri on ‘What Comes from a Swamp’
Interview by Byron Bixler Tyler Macri is a junior Cinema & Photography major at Ithaca College and Filmic contributor whose Advanced Cinema Production project is a surreal drama called “What Comes from a Swamp.” Two weeks ago, for the latest installment of an interview series by the Cinephile Delinquents (the official podcast of Filmic Magazine), … Continue reading
Q&A: Casey Creveling on ‘Let’s Rob a F**king House’
Interview by Byron Bixler Casey Creveling is a senior Cinema & Photography major at Ithaca College whose thesis project is a fast-paced action-comedy called “Let’s Rob a Fucking House.” For the first installment of a new interview series by the Cinephile Delinquents (the official podcast of Filmic Magazine), Casey joined me to talk about his … Continue reading
ITHACA FANTASTIK FEST 2016: Day 4 Coverage
by Byron Bixler Part of our coverage of the 2016 Ithaca Fantastik Film FestivalThe 5th Annual Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival came to a close last night, bookending Wednesday night’s erotic Korean thriller, The Handmaiden, with another Korean thriller, this one being a high-octane zombie flick called Train to Busan. I saw two additional films at the Fest on … Continue reading