When this is all over, I think we should get an apartment together.

Hi! I'm Ryen. I'm 28 years old and I live in Portland, OR. I'm sure you've heard of Portland - Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen made it famous with that show called 'Portlandia' (side note, I lived here BEFORE Portlandia was a thing) and now, instead of being a super awesome and affordable place to live, it's unfortunately turned into another run-of-the-mill, gentrified, yuppy city. Don't get me wrong, I still love living here; I'm just usually torn between disgust and amazement as I watch old homes or buildings torn down and replaced with apartment buildings that charge $16,000 for a studio...

Anyway, that's enough negativity. The real reason I'm here (and hopefully the reason you're here) is because I want to be a movie critic when I grow up. I googled "How to become a movie critic" and learned that I have to watch A LOT of movies. Like, a lot - a lot. I also need to practice my writing which means the Thesaurus will be my new best friend. This is for your benefit as much as mine so you don't have to read the same 7, amazing adjectives (see what I did there) over and over again. So, I've decided to begin my journey to stardom by blogging my way through AFI's Top 100 Movies. I'm going to start with #100 which is Ben Hur, and work my way up to Citizen Kane, which is #1. I'm doing this is because A. I love film, and B. I need/want a hobby.

You'll learn very quickly that my taste in film varies greatly, I enjoy replacing appropriate descriptive words with profanity, and I am in no way qualified to give my opinion on what the American Film Institute has dubbed the 100 greatest American films of all time. And so, in the words of Samuel L. Jackson, "hold on to your butts."