Everyone has a set of games they go back to over and over again. Sometimes it’s for the challenge. Sometimes it’s for nostalgia. Some games don’t ever have an ending. Some games have different endings to get. Sometimes games are so impossible you just have to try one more time to get past that one killer stage.

Say you’re scrolling though your channel guide some lazy afternoon with nothing on TV. You head on over to the movie channels and start perusing. Suddenly, a title appears in your guide. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve seen it, whether it just started or is almost finished, you’ll stop what you’re doing and watch these movies any time you come across them.

As one year comes to a close, so springs forth another. And there looks to be a lot of cool stuff on the horizon coming out next year to look forward to. I run down some of the what I’m looking forward to seeing come to fruition next year after the jump.

A lot has happened this past year. Some of it has been good. Some of it has downright sucked. This week’s Friday Five is double sized as I go though both the best and the worst of this past year.

The newest Disney princess movie was released in theaters this week, so let’s take a look at some Disney movies. If you assumed this list would be all animated films, you would be mistaken.

Since the Xbox One, or X-Bone, just released, I’m gonna go ahead and list my favorite games on it’s predecessor, the Xbox 360.

I actually only own 5 games for my Xbox. I mostly just use it to stream content from my laptop to my TV without getting up and crossing the room.

I’m no snob when it comes to food. I’ll try pretty much anything at least one. I’ve have foie gras sushi. I’ve had anchovies on my pizza. I’ve even had Limburger cheese. But some foods, basic though they may be, I just can’t stand.

Having a smart phone in your pocket has become an almost indispensable necessity in today’s world. In fact, I know I feel naked when I forget to take mine for the day when I leave the house in the morning. What am I going to do? The reason we all feel like we need a phone with us all the time is all the cool stuff they can do for us with apps, that years ago you needed to go to a room in your house and use a computer to do. Now my phone is as powerful and useful (if not more so) than the laptop on my desk.