Lights, Camera, Action

   I can still remember sitting in a theater and watching the first mysterious trailer that dropped out of nowhere for the first Cloverfield movie 10 years ago. Up until the film's release, no one knew what to make of the secret project that had been brewing from J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot production company, with a wide variety of theories ranging from Godzilla to Voltron that would all prove to be grossly inaccurate. But details remained tight-lipped all the way to its premiere, and the factor of knowing virtually nothing about the movie only served the overall experience of watching it on a big screen, making it far more exciting and engrossing than it had any right to be. However, if people hadn't known what to make of the film's trailers, that feeling was only 10x more amplified after seeing the actual movie itself, which was like The Blair Witch Project with monsters. Those who had been expecting Godzilla or Voltron , or any reference to a well-known property...

This year, as I composed my annual list of films I'm most excited for, I decided to do something a bit different from what I've done in previous versions of this list in the past. In addition to my personal selection of movies that made the cut, I will also include FIVE miniseries/TV series that I am looking forward to as well. My reason for doing this: I realized there's been a lot of fantastic work in the last few years to come through television, and from writers and directors whom I admire and follow no less. So many of these stories have worked cinematically just as much as any film on the big screen. It made me recognize that if my understanding and appreciation of the art (as well as this list) were ever to grow, then so did my tastes and my openness to all the work being released. So this list begins with my top five most anticipated miniseries and television series of 2018. Five Most Anticipated Miniseries and/or Television Series of 2018   1. M...