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AFI releases top 10 movies and TV shows lists

AFI (The American Film Institute) has released their lists of the top 10 best films and TV shows from 2012, and not surprisingly there were many crossovers between the lists and Hypable fandoms.

The 10 best (and worst) films of 2012 (so far)

It’s amazing we’re now halfway through 2012, a year that has offered plenty in the way of both blockbuster films and the smaller, more intimate indie fare. Taking that into account, it seems only fitting to offer up something a long the lines of a best of/worst of post for the first half of 2012.

Hypable Movie Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’

Originality is not something one can easily place in the same sentence with Hollywood these days. It’s one of the depressing facts about where the current state of filmmaking has taken us; remakes, sequels, and rip-offs dominate the landscape. This sad fact is part of what makes Beasts of the Southern Wild – the debut feature for Benh Zeitlin – so great.