Tim Cowlishaw's Blog
January 1, 2018
December Madness: Now THIS is a Final Four
I viewed fewer movies this year than usual and thought about skipping the annual top 20 list. Then came the December film rush, the best I can recall in years. Now I have 4 films that I feel deserving of a No. 1 award. So if you don’t like the order of the top four, […]
December 30, 2016
Best of 2016: Manchester by the Sea gets an A-plus
This is my 5th (and final?) Top 20 list. I saw only four or five great movies this year but plenty of good ones. I also saw “Cafe Society” which deserves a special place in movie hell, but I’m feeling positive here today, so let’s just get to the top 20. 1. MANCHESTER BY THE […]
January 2, 2016
2015 Movies — On Dr. Dre, Brian Wilson, Slava Fetisov and a man on Mars
It’s that time. Sorry, Leo, I can’t wait for “The Revenant” to show up on Dallas screens Jan. 8. Same for you, weird looking characters in “Anomalisa.” You’ll have to take your place in my 2016 rankings because, really, that’s where you belong. It’s the same reason that films like “Still Alice” and “A Most […]
January 15, 2015
2014: The Year One Film Soared Above the Rest
Better late than never, here are my top 20 films for 2014. I was trying to wait for a few films to get to Dallas and this team called the Cowboys kept me busier and even traveling to Green Bay longer than anticipated. For what it’s worth (very little), I watched none of the Golden […]
January 1, 2014
The best Scorsese is the other Scorsese in 2013
I don’t know why I spend so much time anguishing over my Top 10 movies of the year which last year was expanded to Top 20 and this year reaches the almost unneccessary level of a Top 25. I am not a film critic. I do not pretend to be a film critic. There are […]
December 27, 2012
Who Beat Lincoln? My Top 10 — No, Make That 20 — Movies of 2012
Who Beat Lincoln? My Top 10 Movies of 2012 begins now… (DISCLAIMER: I am not an official film critic. Or an unofficial one. I go to more movies than the average person but I don’t see everything, or almost everything, like critics do. If you read this list and say “Where’s ‘Dark Knight Rises?’ “ [...]
November 23, 2012
Drunk on Sports goes to the movies “Flight”, “Smashed” and more
For those interested in an update on the book, there is essentially none. A bunch of publishers that had expressed either mild interest in or appreciation for what I was trying to do were contacted and told things like more than 5,000 people read a chapter in a single day after one post on twitter. [...]
November 10, 2012
And here’s the chapter I posted Friday. Was orginally goi...
And here’s the chapter I posted Friday. Was orginally going to post the one about spending Christmas night ’08 in Parkland Hospital with a fractured skull but that one seems to work better (I hope) in context. Being stupid and getting arrested — that kind of speaks for itself.
Reblogged from Drunk On Sports: And here's the chapter I ...
Reblogged from Drunk On Sports: And here's the chapter I posted Friday. Was orginally going to post the one about spending Christmas night '08 in Parkland Hospital with a fractured skull but that one seems to work better (I hope) in context. Being stupid and getting arrested -- that kind of speaks for itself.
Drunk on Sports, Chapter 7 (Approximately): Handcuffs hurt
Reblogged from Drunk On Sports: I appreciate all the support I received after posting the intro to my book "Drunk on Sports" Wednesday. So I have decided to post another chapter for free today. It's a meaningful one for me, regardless of whether or not you ever buy or read the entire book. It doesn't [...]
