J.D.'s Best of 2015

I'm feeling a little under-prepared this year for my usual best of. My typical movie watching behavior puts me at around thirty films a year, about one every other week. This year, I think I've seen maybe a dozen. Of those, most were pretty darn good, a couple were not so good and a handful were surprisingly wonderful. Since that list isn't as robust as usual, that left me to think up a different kind of "best of" list for this year.

Here are my favorite things in 2015.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

"There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?"

I'll make it simple.

I loved it.

Star Wars Mania

Unless you've been spending your days at Walden Pond, you know by now that the "final" trailer for the latest Star Wars movie hit television screens last night. It was exciting.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser Trailer Analysis

Okay, there are about fifty bazillion analyses of the new Star Wars trailer out there online, but I thought I would put in my two cents a week later than everyone else. Although there is literally no real official spoilers out there and this article is total conjecture, I'm a big enough movie/Star Wars geek that some of my idle guessing might actually pan out. So potential spoilers ahead.