Anime Review

 

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

Season 4 - Hashira Training Arc

70% (3.5 Stars)

SjWound's Top 100 Movies of All Time (Round 7) - #180 to #161

 

180.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (171)
179.Avengers: Age of Ultron (170)
178.Green Book (169)
177.Gangs of New York (168)
176.Knives Out (167)
175.The Trial of Chicago 7 (165)
174.Hacksaw Ridge (164)
173.Wicked (New)
172.The Post (177)
171.Avatar: The Way of Water (New)
170.Fight Club (163)
169.Babe (162)
168.The Big Short (160)
167.Superman (1978) (New)
166.Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (158)
165.12 Angry Men (157)
164.Skyfall (156)
163.Fargo (155)
162.Titanic (154)
161.Roma (153)

2023 Movie Ranking - Round 2

 

1. Oppenheimer
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. John Wick: Chapter 4
6. Perfect Days
7. Concrete Utopia
8. The Holdovers
9. BlackBerry
10. Guardians of the GalaxyVol. 3
11. Kill
12. The Boy and the Heron
13. Air
14. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
15. The Killer
16. Tetris
17. Barbie
18. Jawan
19. The Roundup: No Way Out
20. A Guilty Conscience
21. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
22. Extraction 2
23. The Childe
24. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
25. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
26. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
27. Full River Red
28. The Flash
29. Wonka
30. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
31. Thunivu
32. Fast X
33. Sleep
34. Trolls Band Together
35. The Marvels
36. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
37. Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire
38. Moscow Mission
39. They Cloned Tyrone
40. Pathaan
41. Five Nights at Freddy's

To Watch

Killers of the Flower Moon

Past Lives

May December

Elemental

The Covenant

Knock at the Cabin

The Equalizer 3

Cocaine Bear

SjWound's Top 100 Movies of All Time (Round 7) - #200 to #181

 

200.The Killing Fields (193)

199.The Prestige (192)

198.Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (191)

197.Glass Onion (190)

196.Back to the Future Part III (189)

195.Mank (187)

194.CODA (186)

193.Pride & Prejudice (185)

192.Frozen (184)

191.Edge of Tomorrow (183)

190.Men in Black (182)

189.Nomadland (181)

188.Doctor Strange (180)

187.King Richard (179)

186.Frost/Nixon (178)

185.Django Unchained (176)

184.Toy Story 3 (175)

183.Infernal Affairs (174)

182.Thor: Ragnarok (173)

181.Sicario (172)

2024 Movie Ranking - Round 1

 

1. Dune: Part Two
2. The Brutalist
3. Flow
4. Wicked
5. Deadpool and Wolverine
6. Conclave
7. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
8. September 5
9. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
10. Inside Out 2
11. Exhuma
12. I, the Executioner
13. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
14. Civil War
15. Rebel Ridge
16. The Wild Robot
17. Transformers One
18. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
19. The Fall Guy
20. The Roundup: Punishment
21. Carry-On
22. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
23. A Real Pain
24. Moana 2
25. Monkey Man
26. Trap
27. Gladiator II
28. Kung Fu Panda 4
29. Citizen of a Kind
30. The Beekeeper
31. Venom: The Last Dance

To Watch

Heretic

A Complete Unknown

Twisters

Saturday Night

Juror #2

The Apprentice

2025 Movie Reviews

 

Superman
80% (4 Stars), Ranking #204
Rottentomatoes: 83%

The Fantastic Four: First Steps
80% (4 Stars), Ranking #318
Rottentomatoes: 87%

Completed Reading - Non Fiction, July 2025

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Comics Review

DC: The New Frontier, Volume 1 by Darwyn Cooke
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Rook: Exodus, Volume 1: Fight or Flight by Geoff Johns
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Fantastic Four, Vol. 1: Whatever Happened to the Fantastic Four? by Ryan North
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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2026 Oscar Predictions - Round 1 - Best Picture & Director

Picture

1. Sentimental Value
2. Sinners - New
3. Wicked: For Good
4. Bugonia
5. One Battle After Another
6. Marty Supreme
7. Deliver Me from Nowhere - Promoted
8. Jay Kelly - New
9. Frankenstein
10. It Was Just an Accident - New

2nd Tier
Hamnet - Demoted
Avatar: Fire and Ash  - Demoted
After the Hunt - Demoted

Dropped
Michael
The Life of Chuck

Director

1. Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
2. Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)
3. Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)
4. Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
5. Yorgos Lanthimos (Bugonia)

2nd Tier
Chloe Zhao (Hamnet)
Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

SjWound's Top 100 Movies of All Time (Round 7) - #250 to #201

 

250. The Boy and the Heron

249. Cold War

248. The Exorcist

247. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

246. Spider-Man

245. Coco

244. Kill

243. Hero

242. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

241. Iron Man

240. Kung Fu Hustle

239. Boyhood

238. Spider-Man: Far From Home

237. Judas and the Black Messiah

236. The Karate Kid

235. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

234. Chungking Express

233. Shin Godzilla

232. Ghostbusters (1984)

231. Rurouni Kenshin

230. Project A

229. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

228. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

227. A Bridge Too Far

226. Spider-Man 2

225. News of the World

224. BlackBerry

223. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

222. Thunderbolts*

221. September 5

220. Vertigo

219. Batman Returns

218. Beauty and the Beast (2017)

217. Downfall

216. The Holdovers

215. Deadpool & Wolverine

214. Encanto

213. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

212. Concrete Utopia

211. Sense and Sensibility

210. There's Something About Mary

209. Conclave

208. The Man Standing Next

207. The Hunt for Red October

206. The Last King of Scotland

205. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

204. Scent of a Woman

203. Selma

202. Zootopia

201. District 9

The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century - The New York Times

1. Parasite
2. Mulholland Drive
3. There Will Be Blood
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Moonlight
6. No Country for Old Men
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Get Out
9. Spirited Away
10. The Social Network
11. Mad Max Fury Road
12. The Zone of Interest
13. Children of Men
14. Inglourious Basterds
15. City of God
16. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
17. Brokeback Mountain
18. Y Tu Mama Tambien
19. Zodiac
20. The Wolf of Wall Street
21. The Royal Tenenbaums
22. The Grand Budapest Hotel
23. Boyhood
24. Her
25. Phantom Thread
26. Anatomy of a Fall
27. Adaptation
28. The Dark Knight
29. Arrival
30. Lost in Translation
31. The Departed
32. Bridesmaids
33. A Separation
34. Wall E
35. A Prophet
36. A Serious Man
37. Call Me By Your Name
38. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
39. Lady Bird
40. Yi Yi
41. Amelie
42. The Master
43. Oldboy
44. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
45. Moneyball
46. Roma
47. Almost Famous
48. The Lives of Others
49. Before Sunset
50. Up
51. 12 Years A Slave
52. The Favourite
53. Borat
54. Pan's Labyrinth
55. Inception
56. Punch-Drunk Love
57. Best in Show
58. Uncut Gems
59. Toni Erdmann
60. Whiplash
61. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
62. Memento
63. Little Miss Sunshine
64. Gone Girl
65. Oppenheimer
66. Spotlight
67. Tár
68. The Hurt Locker
69. Under the Skin
70. Let the Right One In
71. Ocean's Eleven
72. Carol
73. Ratatouille
74. The Florida Project
75. Amour
76. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
77. Everything Everywhere All at Once
78. Aftersun
79. The Tree of Life
80. Volver
81. Black Swan
82. The Act of Killing
83. Inside Llewyn Davis
84. Melancholia
85. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
86. Past Lives
87. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
88. The Gleaners and I
89. Interstellar
90. Frances Ha
91. Fish Tank
92. Gladiator
93. Michael Clayton
94. Minority Report
95. The Worst Person in the World
96. Black Panther
97. Gravity
98. Grizzly Man
99. Memories of Murder
100. Superbad

SjWound's Top 100 Movies of All Time (Round 6) - #1

  1.  The Dark Knight

2025 Movie Reviews

 

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

80% (4 Stars), Ranking #248

Rottentomatoes: 80%

Sinners

80% (4 Stars), Ranking #253

Rottentomatoes: 96%

Completed Reading - Non Fiction, June 2025

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports by Yaron Weitzman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy C. Edmondson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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SjWound's Ranking of 2011 Movies - Round 2

1. Hugo
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
3. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
4. Thor
5. The Raid
6. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
7. Rango
8. Moneyball
9. The Adventures of Tintin
10. Captain America: The First Avenger
11. Margin Call
12. X-Men: First Class
13. Kung Fu Panda 2
14. The Muppets
15. Real Steel
16. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
17. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
18. Dragon
19. Super 8
20. Contagion
21. Drive
22. Bridesmaids
23. Fast Five
24. Puss in Boots
25. The Road
26. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
27. Rio

 

Upcoming Movie

 

Superman

July 11, 2025

21 days to go

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

July 25, 2025

35 days to go

Comics Review

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Flashpoint by Geoff Johns
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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SjWound's Top 100 Movies of All Time (Round 6) - #10 to #2

 

10. Oppenheimer

9. Citizen Kane

8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

7. Saving Private Ryan

6. Schindler's List

5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

4. The Usual Suspects

3. Pulp Fiction

2. Inception

Champions League 2025 Results

 

Paris Saint-Germain - Winner

5

Inter Milan

0

2025 & 2024 Movie Reviews

 

Thunderbolts*

80% (4 Stars), Ranking #220

Rottentomatoes: 89%

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
70% (3.5 Stars), Ranking #370
Rottentomatoes: 90%

Completed Reading - Non Fiction, May 2025

A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution by Roy Bainton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following by Gabrielle Bluestone
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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Comics Review

All-Star Superman, Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Kingdom Come by Mark Waid
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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SjWound's Ranking of 2012 Movies - Round 3

 

1. Lincoln
2. Argo
3. Life of Pi
4. The Avengers
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Skyfall
8. Django Unchained
9. Rurouni Kenshin
10. Cold War
11. Silver Linings Playbook
12. Les Miserables
13. The Impossible
14. Looper
15. Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time
16. The Bourne Legacy
17. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
18. The Amazing Spider-Man
19. Wreck-It Ralph
20. Brave
21. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
22. Rise of the Guardians
23. Prometheus
24. Pitch Perfect
25. Dredd
26. The Hunger Games
27. Premium Rush
28. Taken 2
29. The Thieves
30. Hotel Transylvania
31. The Cabin in the Woods
32. Snow White and the Huntsman
33. Men In Black III

To watch

21 Jump Street

Game Update

 Currently playing:

Balatro (Mobile)

Upcoming Movie

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

May 21, 2025

11 days to go

Superman

July 11, 2025

62 days to go

SjWound's Top 100 Movies of All Time (Round 6) - #20 to #11

 

20. Lincoln

19. Unforgiven

18. Gladiator

17. Raiders of the Lost Ark

16. Star Wars

15. The Empire Strikes Back

14. Traffic

13. Lawrence of Arabia

12. Blade Runner

11. Jurassic Park

Completed Reading - Non Fiction, Apr 2025

Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

View all my reviews An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel
My rating: 4 of 5 stars






View all my reviews The Anxious Generation: 

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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2025 & 2024 Movie Reviews

 

A Minecraft Movie
60% (3 Stars), Ranking #791
Rottentomatoes: 47%

Trap
60% (3 Stars), Ranking #779
Rottentomatoes: 57%

Captain America: Brave New World
60% (3 Stars), Ranking #677
Rottentomatoes: 47%