VH1 Top 20 Countdown – 2/28/15

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Each week, I check out VH1′s Top 20 countdown, and then I rearrange the songs based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
2. Meghan Trainor – “Lips Are Movin”
3. Lily Wood & Robin Schulz – “Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Remix)”
4. Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk
5. Hozier – “Take Me to Church”
6. Pitbull & Ne-Yo – “Time of Our Lives”
7. Fall Out Boy – “Centuries”
8. Ella Henderson – “Ghost”
9. Rihanna and Kanye West and Paul McCartney – “FourFiveSeconds”
10. Taylor Swift – “Style”
11. Maroon 5 – “Sugar”
12. Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding – “Outside”
13. Kelly Clarkson – “Heartbeat Song”
14. Ellie Goulding – “Love Me Like You Do”
15. Nick Jonas – “Chains”
16. Imagine Dragons – “I Bet My Life”
17. Tove Lo – “Talking Body”
18. Sam Smith – “Lay Me Down”
19. Hoodie Allen ft. Ed Sheeran – “All About It”
20. George Ezra – “Budapest”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Outside
2. Style
3. Take Me to Church
4. Talking Body
5. Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Remix)
6. Ghost
7. Love Me Like You Do
8. FourFiveSeconds
9. Chains
10. Lay Me Down
11. I Bet My Life
12. Centuries
13. Time of Our Lives
14. Uptown Funk
15. Budapest
16. Heartbeat Song
17. Sugar
18. Lips Are Movin
19. All About It
20. Thinking Out Loud

The Middle 6.15: “Steaming Pile of Guilt”

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What was Sue Heck voted as? http://www.starpulse.com/news/Jeffrey_Malone/2015/02/26/the-middle-season-6-episode-15-recap-s

New Girl 4.17 – “Spiderhunt”

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“My biggest concern is the smell.” http://www.starpulse.com/news/Jeffrey_Malone/2015/02/25/new-girl-season-4-episode-17-recap-spi

Fuse Top 20 Countdown – 2/24/15

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Each week, I check out FUSE’s Top 20 countdown, and then I rearrange the songs based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
2. Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
3. Hozier – “Take Me to Church”
4. Taylor Swift – “Blanks Space”
5. Sam Smith – “I’m Not the Only One”
6. Meghan Trainor – “Lips Are Movin”
7. Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo – “Time of Our Lives”
8. Kelly Clarkson – “Heartbeat Song”
9. Nick Jonas – “Jealous”
10. Fall Out Boy – “Centuries”
11. Selena Gomez – “The Heart Wants What It Wants”
12. Ariana Grande ft. The Weeknd – “Love Me Harder”
13. Ella Henderson – “Ghost”
14. Big Sean ft. E40 – “IDFWU”
15. Beyoncé – “7/11”
16. I LOVE MAKONNEN ft. Drake – “Tuesday (Remix)”
17. Rae Sremmurd – “No Type”
18. Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Wayne, Drake, & Chris Brown – “Only”
19. Prince Royce ft. Snoop Dogg – “Stuck on a Feeling”
20. Alesso ft. Tove Lo – “Heroes (We Could Be)”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Love Me Harder
2. Take Me to Church
3. Blank Space
4. Jealous
5. Ghost
6. IDFWU
7. Centuries
8. Uptown Funk
9. Time of Our Lives
10. Only
11. No Type
12. I’m Not the Only One
13. 7/11
14. Heroes (We Could Be)
15. Stuck on a Feeling
16. The Heart Wants What It Wants
17. Tuesday (Remix)
18. Heartbeat Song
19. Lips Are Movin
20. Thinking Out Loud

What Won TV? – February 15-February 21, 2105

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In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.

Sunday – Each minute of Bob’s Burgers was excellent; the SNL 40th Anniversary Special was messy, but it connected with me deeply.
Monday – HERE’S BETTER CALL SAUL!
Tuesday – New Girl
Wednesday – The Middle
Thursday – Portlandia
Friday – Bag Boy, dang it.
Saturday – Film Independent Spirit Awards

The 2014 Jeff Malone Academy Awards

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If I were in charge of unilaterally selecting the Oscars, here is who would be recognized.  Winners are at the top, and nominees are listed most deserving first.

Best Picture
1. Whiplash
2. The Lego Movie
3. Gone Girl
4. Nightcrawler
5. Snowpiercer

Lead Actress
1. Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
2. Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
3. Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
4. Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
5. Emily Blunt, Into the Woods

Lead Actor
1. Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
2. Michael Keaton, Birdman
3. Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. David Oyelowo, Selma
5. Andy Serkis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

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Best Movie Scenes of 2014

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TOP FIVE

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past – “Time in a Bottle”: Mid-film applause was in order.

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VH1 Top 20 Countdown – 2/21/15

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Each week, I check out VH1′s Top 20 countdown, and then I rearrange the songs based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. Hozier – “Take Me to Church”
2. Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
3. Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
4. Meghan Trainor – “Lips Are Movin”
5. Lily Wood & Robin Schulz – “Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Remix)”
6. Fall Out Boy – “Centuries”
7. Ella Henderson – “Ghost”
8. Pitbull & Ne-Yo – “Time of Our Lives”
9. Taylor Swift – “Blank Space”
10. Rihanna and Kanye West and Paul McCartney – “FourFiveSeconds”
11. Nick Jonas – “Jealous”
12. Maroon 5 – “Sugar”
13. Sam Smith – “I’m Not the Only One”
14. Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding – “Outside”
15. Selena Gomez – “The Heart Wants What It Wants”
16. Ellie Goulding – “Love Me Like You Do”
17. Alesso ft. Tove Lo – “Heroes (We Could Be)”
18. Tove Lo – “Talking Body”
19. OneRepublic – “I Lived”
20. Fifth Harmony – “Sledgehammer”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Outside
2. Take Me to Church
3. Blank Space
4. Talking Body
5. Jealous
6. Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Remix)
7. Love Me Like You Do
8. Ghost
9. FourFiveSeconds
10. Centuries
11. Uptown Funk
12. Time of Our Lives
13. I’m Not the Only One
14. Heroes (We Could Be)
15. The Heart Wants What It Wants
16. Sledgehammer
17. Lips Are Movin
18. Sugar
19. I Lived
20. Thinking Out Loud

Watch And/Or Listen to This: “Big Birdman”

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This might be the most perfect Sesame Street parody ever.

Best Film Performances of 2014

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In a lot of my best-of lists in the past, I have made it a point to mention potential greats that I haven’t been able to see.  I have backed off from doing that recently, because it is just something that comes with the territory.  But having seen fewer movies in 2014 than I did in 2013, I feel compelled to mention some of the performances I kept hearing about, like Julianne Moore in Still Alice, Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night and The Immigrant, or Timothy Spall in Mr. Turner.  But I still managed to see an abundance of great acting.  Here is a rundown of the excellence, starting with the 2 best and then the rest in alphabetical order:

Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
Uma Thurman, Nymphomaniac

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Riz Ahmed, Nightcrawler
Emily Blunt, Into the Woods
Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice
Bradley Cooper, Guardians of the Galaxy
Lilla Crawford, Into the Woods
Tom Cruise, Edge of Tomorrow
Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal, Enemy
Ed Harris, Snowpiercer
Scarlett Johansson, Lucy and Under the Skin
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
David Oyelowo, Selma
Randall Park, The Interview
Alison Pill, Snowpiercer
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
Andy Serkis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Emma Stone, Birdman
Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer

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