Being a storyteller myself, I transitioned my passion of novel writing and headed on full force into the world of filmmaking. I had spent hours making weird films - a lot of them just me, myself, and I in my bedroom arguing to no one. The first short I made was an experimental one. I was testing out the free-to-use editing software that came on my laptop at the time and created a series of filtered clips with a pseudo story about attempting to escape the "editing room." That film is lost to time. The next couple I made were trailers. One was for a superhero movie, in which the hero in question only believes he has superpowers, another was about a burger restaurant with haunted kids' toys (in the same vein as the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise), and the final one was centered around my grandmother's dog being a spy who protected her family. The only one that actually survived being transferred from my old laptop was the one with my grandmother's dog.

The DC films have been hit-or-miss since they began in the 1950s, but come 2013, "Man of Steel" started a shared universe of DC films that'll be continuing with 2025's "Superman" written and directed by James Gunn. Here are the movies that lead up to this point.

That isn't to say the Academy hates animated films. They have a separate category to honor them; Best Animated Feature Film, starting in 2001 with its winner, Shrek. Or maybe, just maybe, the Academy has some weird prejudice against animated films. Shrek was the most popular film to have come out in 2001. It had adult humor, an all-star cast, a blockbuster fairy tale, and CG animation from a barely recognized (at the time) studio, Dreamworks. This movie was a monster hit, residing praise from critics, audiences, and an overwhelming heap pile of cash that was its own box office.

Making a movie is hard enough. Finishing the script, finding actors and a crew, making sure scheduling isn't an issue, planning ahead for the editors, and ensure the final product is as perfect as possible before releasing it to a wide audience. But I cannot imagine the added-on stress that came to delivering a scene - or even groups of scenes - that take place with one shot. I'm talking 1917, Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, and Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious. These three films achieve a cinematic impossibility: providing an entire feature-length picture with the illusion of it all taking place in one take.

The Suicide Squad may not have been a massive hit, but the reviews on both the critics and audience sides were overwhelmingly positive, causing Gunn to be the CEO of a new branch, DC Studios, where they plan to wipe the slate clean and start over, this time planning ahead into where their story is going.

The horror that was Robert Eggers' "Nosferatu" was astounding. Lily Rose-Depp was robbed from a Best Actress nomination, and the movie itself was robbed from a Best Picture nomination. Despite it being a remake of countless "Dracula" movies, I think this version really shined as a definitive take on the classic tale.

As I move forward with "The Reel Analysis" stream, I am going to put out a foundation of what I believe makes a film great. From a technical standpoint, to an entertainment standpoint, I am going to go further into what I believe makes good movies. Granted, this is only my opinion, no one has to match my taste, but as I continue to review films, I want to set a standard as to why I believe certain films are objectively good, and how others are objectively bad.