Movie Podcast Weekly Ep. 338: Top 10 Movies of 2020

Movie Podcast Weekly

Happy new year! It’s finally 2021! This is our favorite, most important episode of the year! In case you were wondering what a terrible, relatively “movie-less” year like 2020 brought to us in terms of noteworthy cinema, you can hear the Top 10 Movies of 2020, brought to you by your host Jason Pyles (aka “Jay of the Dead”) and his buddies from Movie Podcast Weekly, including the actor Karl Huddleston, the professional Geek Ryan Elliott of the Geek Cast Live Podcast, and a Guy Named Andy. (William Rowan Jr. is absent during this episode.)

Episode 338 was recorded on January 4, 2021, and it was released on January 5, 2021. This is a hybrid episode brought to you by Considering the Cinema and Movie Podcast Weekly. If you’re a Horror movie fan, listen to Jay of the Dead’s Top 10 HORROR Movies of 2020 episode here.

Thanks for listening to Movie Podcast Weekly, The Clown Car of Movie Podcasting…

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SHOW NOTES: Movie Podcast Weekly Ep. 338

[ 00:00:00 ] – Introduction
— Happy New Year 2021!
— This episode is a Considering the Cinema / Movie Podcast Weekly hybrid release.
— Jay welcomes his co-hosts: Karl, Ryan and a guy named Andy. (William is absent.)
— The February 2021 MPW release: Reviewing the Colonel Sanders movie, “A Recipe for Seduction” and Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.

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[ 00:04:11 ] – General Thoughts on the Cinema of 2020: An Overview

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[ 00:18:19 ] – THE TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2020 (and some other additions)

Jason’s Top 10 Movies of 2020 (Mostly Non-Horror)
1. 1917
2. The Decline
3. The Lodge
4. The Informer
5. Greenland
6. Sputnik
7. Possessor
8. Blood on Her Name
9. Just Mercy
10. Only

Andy’s Top 10 Movies of 2020 (Sort of…)
1. The Lego Movie (2014) – tied with – The Lego Movie The Second Part (2019)
2. Hamilton
3. The Good Place (TV series)
4. Possessor (Andy has never seen this movie.)
5. Extraction
6. Trolls (2016) and Trolls World Tour (2020)
7. A Simple Favor (2018)
8. Sicario Part 3 (Not a Real Movie)
9. Timmy Failure / Mulan / Magic Camp / Artemis Fowl / Onward (A five-way tie)
10. Enola Holmes

Karl’s Top 10 Movies of 2020
1. 6 Underground (2019)
2. The Invisible Man
3. The Midnight Sky
4. Promising Young Woman
5. Underwater
6. Soul
7. The Hunt
8. Just Mercy
9. Not actually Karl’s No. 9 … he’s just mentioning it: Hillbilly Elegy
10. Book: “The Lincoln Conspiracy” by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

Ryan’s Top 10 Movies of 2020
1. Hamilton
2. Onward
3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
4. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
5. The Devil All the Time
6. The King of Staten Island
7. Extraction
8. Timmy Failure
9. Bad Education
10. Enola Holmes

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[ 01:23:16 ] – Honorable Mentions of 2020 (11 – 15)

Jason’s Honorable Mentions of 2020
11. Swallow
12. Extraction
13. Spenser Confidential
14. Inherit the Viper
15. The Silencing

Andy’s Honorable Mentions of 2020
11. The Old Guard
12. The Silence (2019)

Karl’s Honorable Mentions of 2020
11. Contagion (2011)

Ryan’s Honorable Mentions of 2020
* * * * *

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[ 01:30:08 ] – Guilty Pleasures of 2020
Jason: Bullets of Justice
Andy: * * * * *
Karl: Last Christmas (2019)
Ryan: * * * * *

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[ 01:33:47 ] – Biggest Disappointments / Heartbreaks of 2020

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[ 01:37:28 ] – Dishonorable Mentions and WORST Movies of 2020

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Wrap-Up

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Links for this episode:

Jay says check out his MPW buddies here:
— Movie Podcast Weekly
— On Twitter: Karl Huddleston
— On Twitter: Geek Cast Ryan Elliott
— Ryan’s show: Geek Cast Live Podcast
— On Twitter: William Rowan Jr.
— William’s shows: Movie Moments Podcast and The Sci-Fi Podcast

Jason recommends indie musician Nate Johnivan’s Help Wanted EP

Want to hear more Horror movie reviews? Check out Jay’s new weekly horror podcast:
– Horror Movie Weekly.com
– On Twitter: @horror_weekly
– Meet Jay’s New Co-hosts in Ep. 071

Don’t miss the recent Top 10 shows:
— Jay of the Dead on Movie Podcast Weekly’s Top 10 Movies (All Genres) of 2019
— Jay of the Dead’s Top 10 Horror Movies of 2019 with special guest Lady Phantom!
— Jay of the Dead’s The Top 10 Horror Movies of the 2010s Decade, with special guests GregaMortis and Ron Martin!
— Jay of the Dead on Movie Podcast Weekly’s Top 10 Movies (All Genres) of 2019

Considering the Cinema links:
On Twitter: @ConsiderCinema
Film Blog / Audio Podcast: ConsideringTheCinema.com
HORROR-Only Content: ConsideringHorrorCinema.com
Email: [e-mail]
Voicemail: [phone]
Letterboxd: Letterboxd.com/ConsiderCinema

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