While not the year we anticipated, what with a global pandemic and all, 2020 did produce some good movies. Sure, most of the flicks scheduled for release last year are still in limbo, but a lot of movies did hit screens during the last 12 months -- most to VOD and streaming services -- and many were exceptional. So here's my Top 5 of 2020, a list I'll stand by and hang by. And we might as well begin with my No. 1 choice... 1) Volition Tony Dean Smith's and Ryan W. Smith's sci-fi time twister came out of nowhere and delivered the goods on all counts. It's exceptionally well written, directed, and acted. The story is a real puzzle box, but not so much that it gets in the way of being highly entertaining. And it was made in my home province of British Columbia, right here in Canada. See it, if you haven't already. 2) Extraction Once again proving you don't need to go to a theatre to see a large scale event picture, Netflix and Chris Hemsworth delivered one of t...

Whether you're excited for one or not, a new Ghostbusters movie is coming our way next summer; one directly tied to the original films. The trailer for Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters: Afterlife drops on Monday (yes, I know I already mentioned that in the headline) but a few images arrived online earlier today, and we'd be dicks if we didn't share them with you here. The film picks up about 30 years after the original Ghostbusters, and follows a single mother and her two children who move to a farm left to her by a father she never knew. When the family arrives, the children befriend their summer school teacher, played by Paul Rudd, and they start to notice odd occurrences around the farm, and in the town. Then they discover the classic Ecto-1 hidden on the property, and a familiar device that reads psychokinetic energy... Suffice to say, the kids discover who their grandfather was, and question if they're ready to pick up the proton packs themselve...

It seems like human sacrifices, dogs and cats living together, and other mass hysteria have occurred, as a new Ghostbusters movie -- one that ignores the 2016 remake -- is headed our way in 2020! What do we know about the picture? Not much, other then Jason Reitman (son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Gil Kenan. Reitman stated this is a continuation of the 1984 film.