Best Of 2015: Less Lee Moore

For more discussion about the items on my list, check out the Popshifter Best Of 2015 Podcast!

Many thanks to the following: All the writers at Popshifter but especially Melissa Bratcher, Brad Henderson, Tyler Hodg, Jeffery X Martin, and Tim Murr for being so generous with their time and talent; all the fantastic PR folks that help make everything possible (too many to list!); Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe at Spectacular Optical for graciously publishing my essay on Ricky Kasso in their Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s anthology; the kind people of Rue Morgue for publishing my music reviews in the magazine as well as my Frightful Flashback column on the blog; the good folks at all of the websites who invited me to write for them this year: Everything Is Scary, Nerdy Stuff, Modern Horrors, Dirge Magazine, and Biff Bam Pop; Colin Geddes and Carol Borden for being terrific and for letting me write for the TIFF Vanguard and Midnight Madness blogs again; and last but certainly NOT least, Shaun Hatton for being a generally awesome person.

And now, for the lists!

Best Movies Of 2015:

1. Bone Tomahawk
2. Magic Mike XXL (review)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Lost River (review)
5. February (review)
6. The Devil’s Candy (review)
7. Men & Chicken (review)
8. The Mind’s Eye (review)
9. The Interior (review)
10. Creep

More Movies I Loved This Year:

1. Cub (review)
2. POD
3. Green Room (review)
4. Cat Sick Blues (review)
5. Horsehead
6. Lace Crater (review)
7. The Nightmare (review)
8. The Voices (review)
9. The Salvation (review)
10. White God

Still More Movies I Loved This Year:

1. Phantom of the Paradise (1974, screened at The Royal Cinema)
2. Charlie Countryman (2013)
3. The Pact (2013) (review)
4. 21 Jump Street (2012)
5. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
6. The Rover (2014)
7. Pit Stop (1969: 2015 Arrow Video Blu-ray reissue) (review)
8. The Beast (1975: 2015 Arrow Video Blu-ray reissue) (review)
9. Society (1989: 2015 Arrow Video Blu-Ray reissue) (review)
10. Closer To God (review)

Music I Loved In 2015:

1. Ghost, Meliora (2015, Loma Vista) (review)
2. FFS, FFS (2015, Domino)
3. The Damned, The Black Album (1980: 2015 vinyl reissue, Drastic Plastic)
4. Allie X, CollXtion I (2015, Label X) (review)
5. Wand, Golem (2015, In The Red) (review)
6. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence (2014, UMG Recordings)
7. Fuzz, II (2015, In The Red) (review)
8. Marching Church, The World Is Not Enough (2015, Sacred Bones) (review)
9. Burning Image, The Grand Guignol (2014, MOKAT)
10. Electric Six, Bitch, Don’t Let Me Die! (2015, Metropolis)

Ten TV Shows I Enjoyed This Year:

1. Hannibal, Season Three (review)
2. True Detective, Season Two (podcast)
3. Daredevil
4. The Walking Dead, Season 5 (review)
5. How To Get Away With Murder
6. Jessica Jones (review)
7. W/Bob and David
8. Master Of None
9. Aquarius (review)
10. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Ten Things I Wanted To Watch/See/Hear In 2015 But Didn’t Get A Chance To

1. Crimson Peak, directed by Guillermo del Toro
2. Duran Duran, Paper Gods
3. Fargo, Season One and Two
4. Girls Names, Arms Around A Vision
5. Lana Del Rey, Honeymoon
6. Legend, directed by Brian Helgeland
7. The Knick, Season Two
8. Krampus, directed by Michael R. Dougherty
9. The Revenant, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
10. Spectre, directed by Brian Mendes