Landry's Top Thirteen Films of 2013

2013 was an exceptionally strong year in film, so much so that I think every film on this list would be a top film in an average year, and the whole top five could be any other year's Oscar winner. It was a year of dramas, most historical, many intense, which marked a shift away from the more fanciful 2012. It was a strong year for films that dealt with race issues, but a relatively weak year for gender issues in film. Anyways, here's my top thirteen films of 2013.

Bomb The Music Industry! (And Action Action) (And Refused) (And Born Against) Are Fucking Dead.

So, last night I saw my favorite band play for the last time ever. Well, some of you may know that I refer to several bands as my “favorite band”. Bomb the Music Industry! is one of them. Last night was their final show, at the Warsaw in Brooklyn. Bomb has had several “last shows” over the last year or so, but this one was for real, or at least we think. It was made out to be a bigger deal than the previous ones, and Jeff even tweeted that he spent a couple of hours crying in public the night before the show. Although this was Bomb’s night, the show had a stellar lineup of openers. Opening for BtMI! were Laura Stevenson (member of Bomb), Michigan power-pop-punks Cheap Girls, and Arizona folk heroes Andrew Jackson Jihad. After waiting for nearly an hour out in the frozen Brooklyn tundra, the doors finally opened.