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Movies and Books: 2018

2018 had me reading less, but seeing more for both movies and live performances. I definitely think some of the former had to do with a lot of work in the teaching realm, but I’m hoping to rally a bit in 2019. Maybe? We’ll see.

Movies:

  1. Phantom Thread
  2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  3. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action
  4. Love, Simon
  5. Annihilation
  6. Black Panther
  7. Thoroughbreds
  8. Isle of Dogs
  9. Il Boom
  10. Outside In
  11. Deadpool 2
  12. Avengers: Infinity War
  13. Ocean’s Eight
  14. AFI Docs Shorts Program 3
  15. The Gospel of Eureka
  16. The Liberation
  17. Alone in the Game
  18. When Ladies Meet (1933 version)
  19. Wild Strawberries
  20. Eighth Grade
  21. Never Goin’ Back
  22. Crazy Rich Asians
  23. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
  24. The Wife
  25. The Heiresses
  26. The Children Act
  27. A Star is Born
  28. First Man
  29. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  30. Beautiful Boy
  31. At Eternity’s Gate
  32. Green Book
  33. The Favourite
  34. Cold War
  35. Non-fiction
  36. Diamantino
  37. Eva
  38. Aquaman
  39. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
  40. Mary Poppins Returns

Plays/Performances:

  1. Blame it on Bianca Del Rio
  2. Miss Richfield 1981: Born Again
  3. Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer Tour
  4. Hamilton
  5. Garbage: Version 2.0 20th Anniversary
  6. Anything Goes

Books and Graphic Novels:

  1. Saturn Apartments Vol. 6 by Hisae Iwaoka
  2. Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
  3. Here by Richard McGuire
  4. Saturn Apartments Vol. 7 by Hisae Iwaoka
  5. Shoplifter by Michael Cho
  6. Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
  7. Full Bleed Vol. 1 edited by Dirk Wood
  8. Doctor Who: The Eyeless by Lance Parkin
  9. The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang
  10. Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris
  11. Moonstruck Vol. 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle
  12. Spinning by Tillie Walden
  13. Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds
  14. Epileptic by David B.
  15. Full Bleed Vol. 2 edited by Dirk Wood
  16. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  17. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
  18. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 12 by Fumi Yoshinaga
  19. Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman
  20. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
  21. The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang
  22. Time Was by Ian McDonald
  23. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
  24. Check Please! Vol. 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
  25. The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo by Drew Weing
  26. Japanese Notebooks: A Journey to the Empire of Signs by Igort
  27. Gumballs by Erin Nations
  28. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
  29. My Brother’s Husband Vol. 2 by Gengoroh Tagame
  30. I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land by Connie Willis
  31. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — Creating a Champion by various authors

Previous Years’ Tallies: