Split

A psychological thriller directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan and starring James McAvoy as a man with over 20 different personalities due to dissociative identity disorder. The film is all about McAvoy's character kidnapping three teen girls and holding them captive for one of his personalities, as the three girls try to figure out a way to escape by taking advantage of some of the personalities. Split is a very original film that starts out as a pretty normal thriller that then turns more supernatural by the end when the last personality is revealed, which could have gone too far by what the beginning was like, but the very last shot of the film makes what happened more plausible and fitting with a previous film that Shyamalan had made before. It has a slow pace, at times too many closeups, and some of the dialogue can come off weird at times if it wasn't explained better through one of the girls' flashback and McAvoy's backstory. The performances by McAvoy and the actresses who play the teen girls Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, and Haley Lu Richardson are all perfect, believable, and frightening and the scenes involving McAvoy's psychiatrist talking about his condition help foreshadow what happens at the end without being too obvious. Over all: 81%
2017 top list so far:
1. Split

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Justice League/Power Rangers #1

The first issue of a six part crossover storyline between the Justice League and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, which begins with a flash forward of Angel Grove in ruins, Zack blaming himself, and Superman telling him he shouldn't, to the Rangers looking for Alpha, Zedd using a fake one to enter the Command Center, Zack teleporting himself to Gotham and fighting Batman due to thinking he's a monster, the rest of the Rangers arriving to help Zack, the Flash confiscating their weapons, and Kimberly's Pterodactyl Zord flying off with the Batmobile in its mouth. Through all of that, the first issue is very descent, not as amazing as the first issue of the Turtles and Batman crossover, but pretty fun nonetheless. Taking place early in the show's second season, as noted by Zedd's appearance and Tommy being the Green Ranger, the comic is both serious and filled with fun nostalgia. Batman's introduction, especially as he notes that Zack's fighting style suggest he has a head injury due to his battle with Zedd, is awesome. The way this issue ends makes me wonder how their fighting will be resolved, how Batman and the League react to the Rangers being teens, and how this will all lead to Angel Grove in ashes and how it will be fixed. Over all: 100%
Top list so far:
1. Deadpool Killustrated
2. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #6
3. Civil War: Choosing Sides Vol. 1 #1
4. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #4
5. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3
6. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2
7. An Innocent Guy
8. Batman: The Killing Joke
9. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
10. Batman: The Long Halloween
11. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2016 Annual #1
12. Justice League/Power Rangers #1
13. Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe
14. Crisis on Infinite Earths
15. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5
16. Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive
17. Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2
18. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1
19. The Dark Knight Returns
20. Cartoon Network Super Secret Crisis War
21. Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers Vol. 1
22. The Comic Cavalcade: Archives Volume 1
23. Civil War
24. The New Mutants #98

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Top 10 2016 Series and Season Finales

Series Finales:
1. Gravity Falls
2. The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
3. Person of Interest
4. Austin & Ally
5. MythBusters
6. Castle
7. Braindead
8. Royal Pains
9. Hell on Wheels
10. Rizzoli & Isles
Honorable Mentions:
Beauty and the Beast

Season Finales:
1. Stranger Things first season finale-Chapter Eight: The Upside Down
2. American Horror Story: Roanoke finale-Chapter 10
3. The Flash second season finale-The Race of His Life
4. Supergirl first season finale-Better Angels
5. Star Wars Rebels second season finale-Twilight of the Apprentice
6. Arrow fourth season finale-Schism
7. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. third season finale-Ascension
8. Gotham second season finale-Transference
9. Ash vs. Evil Dead first season finale-The Dark One
10. Family Guy 14th season finale-Road to India
Honorable Mentions:
Fuller House first season finale-Love Is in the Air
Exorcist first season finale-Chapter Ten:Three Rooms
Scream second season finale-Halloween II
Scream Queens second season finale-Drain the Swamp
American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson finale-The Verdict
Lucifer first season finale-Take Me Back to Hell
American Horror Story: Hotel finale-Be Our Guest
Quantico first season finale-Yes
Fear the Walking Dead second season finale-North
Legends of Tomorrow first season finale-Legendary
Luke Cage first season finale-You Know My Steez
Shades of Blue first season finale-One Last Lie
Sleepy Hollow third season finale-Ragnarok
The Walking Dead sixth season finale-Last Day on Earth
Bones eleventh season finale-The Nightmare within the Nightmare

Top 10 New Shows and Season Premieres of 2016

New Shows:
1. Stranger Things
2. Angie Tribeca
3. Luke Cage
4. American Crime Story
5. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
6. Legends of Tomorrow
7. 11.22.63
8. The Good Place
9. Preacher
10. Lucifer
Honorable Mentions:
Cleverman
You, Me, and the Apocalypse
Angel From Hell
Damien
Crowded
Baskets
The Ranch
Houdini & Doyle
Lab Rats: Elite Force
Maya & Marty
Still the King
Braindead
Wrecked
Dead of Summer
Fuller House
Son of Zorn
Shades of Blue
This is Us
Designated Survivor
Lethal Weapon
Pitch
The Exorcist
MacGyver
Van Helsing
Crisis in Six Scenes
Wynona Earp
Timeless
No Tomorrow
Frequency
The Great Indoors
The Crown
Shooter
Search Party
Justice League Action
People of Earth
Voltron: Legendary Defender

Season Premieres:
1. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fourth season premiere-The Ghost
2. Daredevil second season premiere-Bang
3. Supergirl second season premiere-The Adventures of Supergirl
4. Arrow fifth season premiere-Legacy
5. The Flash third season premiere-Flashpoint
6. NCIS 14th season premiere-Rogue
7. Nashville fifth season premiere-The Wayfaring Stranger
8. The Fosters fourth season premiere-Potentional Energy
9. Saturday Night Live 42nd season premiere-Margot Robbie
10. Scream Queen second season premiere-Scream Again
Honorable Mentions:
Ash vs. Evil Dead second season premiere-Home
The X-Files tenth season premiere-My Struggle
American Horror Story: Roanoke premiere-Chapter 1
The Walking Dead seventh season premiere-The Day Will Come When You Won't Be
Blue Bloods seventh season premiere-The Greater Good
Modern Family eighth season premiere-A Tale of Three Cities
Family Guy fifteenth season premiere-The Boys in the Band
Scream second season premiere-I Know What You Did Last Summer

Top 10 Most Anticipated New Shows Of 2017

1. The Defenders
2. Star Trek: Discovery
3. The Punisher
4. Iron Fist
5. Legion
6. Riverdale
7. Big Hero 6
8. Powerless
9. 24: Legacy
10. The Blacklist: Redemption
Honorable Mentions:
APB
Training Day
Victoria
Ben 10
Emerald City
Taken