Gregg’s Top 10 Films of 2010
December 27th, 2010 by Gregg Senko
There were some highs and some lows this year (at times, some real lows) at the cinema. Fanboys rejoiced with the revival of the Predator franchise in addition to a certain comic book sequel brought to us by Jon Favreau. It was a year of cowboys and dragons and dancers, oh my! January brought us Jackie Chan in The Spy Next Door, and 2010 closed out with December’s star-studded cast in True Grit. While my top ten Blu-ray list remained somewhat consistent throughout the year, this best of cinema list jumped around like five-year old at a birthday party. Continue reading ‘Gregg’s Top 10 Films of 2010′
Another year is almost in the books, and another year of top 10′s has already begun gracing the pages of Why So Blu. No, not the top Ten Commandments; this bit’s about Blu-rays. It looks like I’m up to the plate now for me to happily reveal what worked for me in 2010. There are probably some unexpected choices on here as well as others that are no surprise. Some Blu-ray releases even provided a better product than I was hoping for, which is always a welcomed change. From elves to GI’s and sports to music, the 2010 library covered the bases for me. I give you my best Blu-rays of 2010… 
Making a Top Ten list of Blu-rays was a lot harder than I thought it would be. The fact that there’s so many excellent releases that I haven’t seen yet just made it even harder because I know a lot of them would be on my list. So I decided to make a list of the Top 10 Blu-rays that I’ve seen and most likely reviewed, and another list of Blu-rays that I really want to see and would most likely would have been included in this list if I had seen them. 
The calendar year of 2010 in the world of Blu-ray was a pretty easy one to judge, at least In my opinion. But when I dwell on what 2011 holds in store, I’m nearly having an aneurysm thinking about all the competition such as the “Holy Grail”of Star Wars films and Tron: Legacy, just to name a few. That’s going to be one hell of a year for Blu-ray. So anyway, it’s still 2010 so I will stop digressing and getting ahead of myself. 
The calendar year of 2010 started off a little rough, in my opinion, for the world of movies. It was a little too rough, if you don’t mind me saying. Anyway, it was not until the month of March that I saw the first film I deemed worthy of even talking about, Shutter Island. Needless to say, by April I really had my reservations about this year. I was let down by Iron Man 2 and a few others I had high hopes for, but I knew (although I could not prove it at the time) that Mr. Nolan was about to conjure up something really special in Inception, so I kept my head held high in eager anticipation of being proved wrong about this lackluster calendar year. Was I disappointed? 
“Since the dawn of the horror genre, filmmakers have consistently come up with inventive ways to chop up an endless string of damsels in distress. They could’ve just left these film deaths to the imagination, but where’s the fun in that? From knives to piano wire, these weapons are some of the bloodiest.” I thought the following article, sent by us from our friends over at SPIKE TV, is the perfect way for us to kick off and celebrate my favorite upcoming holiday of the year, Halloween! So sit back, relax and learn about all the tools of the trade. Enjoy this one! 
So we’ve reached the end of 2010’s summer movie season, and although many are in agreement that this hasn’t been the best summer season, I still found enough films to make a solid list of what I would consider to be my favorite films of the summer. Unfortunately the summer movie season cut off just short of the release of Machete; however, there are still a few wild genre films that managed to make it in here. 
I thought this was a pretty cool article/press release I received from my friends over at Spike TV and I thought it would fit in nicely here on the site and maybe…just maybe…it would even provoke a little bit of conversation/debate on the subject. Who needs another Hollywood super hero sequel when there are so many superheroes out there who deserve a chance on the big screen? Check out Geoff Shakespeare’s entertaining article below. I hope you have fun with it. I did! 
Oni. Rakshasa. Yautjas. The highly intelligent alien race that has been visiting our planet for eons is known best as the Predator. Ever since their film debut alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987, the space-travelling bipeds have achieved success in film, novels and comic books. I’ve made no secret that Dark Horse’s Predator storylines are what drew me into comic book collecting back in the early 1990’s. It was Predator: Race War that became my first exposure into the print foray of the dreaded hunters. 
So the The Wolfman is finally out, unleashed on the world and causing havoc in cinemas! Whereas if it’s good or bad, I honestly don’t know yet (still have to see it), but in celebration of its release I thought it would be fun to explore the golden nuggets of its sub-genre. As I mentioned in this column before; a good werewolf movie is a rare beast, not to mention the amount of films to have explored the subject are few and far between, especially compared to its counterparts; the Zombie and the Vampire. 
A brand new year is always my favorite in terms of films; all of the big releases seem beaming with promise and potential. Of course, by December, several will have fallen flat on their face, but lets not dwell on that, lets get excited while we still can. Overall, there are plenty of fresh flicks to look forward to, at least for a genre fan like myself; a bunch of Cult Directors make their long awaited returns (John Carpenter, Vincenzo Natali), old school action makes a comeback (Predators, Machete, The Expendables) and a bunch of horror projects get the Big Budget treatment (Piranha 3-D, Wolfman, Shutter Island). 
We thought it would be a fun idea, here at Why So Blu, if a few of us writers got together and wrote a conglomerate review of what we each thought our Top 10 Blu-ray releases of the year were in 2009. I know the anticipation and speculation must be running rampant through your veins right now so without further ado and anymore unnecessary words let’s get down to business and see what we all picked. 
I waited patiently until after my most recent screening of Sherlock Holmes to compile this list that I have been looking forward to working on all year long. As Gregg Senko kind of mentioned yesterday, it was not until the second half of the year that I was really able to round up a majority of the all-star gems I would be calling upon to complete the below list of my Top 10 films of 2009. 
We hope to be doing a lot more of this in 2010, but in the meantime please give your full undivided attention to video game reviewers Sam Bushman and Dan Morrison of WhySoBlu.com as they give you the low down on their ‘Top 10′ favorite moments in gaming for the year 2009. Check out the 
Making it all the way to the top is no easy feat. Landing a record deal is hard enough let alone being able to tour and get your name out there. Unfortunately, there are several extremely talented and very entertaining bands out there that are not household names and as a result, are flying under our radar. Do not deprive your ears any longer from their musical brilliance! If a band didn’t make MTV, that doesn’t mean a thing! 
With the recent release of New Moon, the latest installment in Summit’s Box-Office behemoth the Twilight Series (or Saga, or whatever they’re calling it), vampires seem to be on everyone’s mind nowadays; be it for the tweens’ phenomenal adoration of them or the fan boy disdain of what they represent. One thing is for sure; the pale sulky vampires are here to stay until weekend openings say otherwise. 
