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:
- Phantom Thread
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action
- Love, Simon
- Annihilation
- Black Panther
- Thoroughbreds
- Isle of Dogs
- Il Boom
- Outside In
- Deadpool 2
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Ocean’s Eight
- AFI Docs Shorts Program 3
- The Gospel of Eureka
- The Liberation
- Alone in the Game
- When Ladies Meet (1933 version)
- Wild Strawberries
- Eighth Grade
- Never Goin’ Back
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
- The Wife
- The Heiresses
- The Children Act
- A Star is Born
- First Man
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Beautiful Boy
- At Eternity’s Gate
- Green Book
- The Favourite
- Cold War
- Non-fiction
- Diamantino
- Eva
- Aquaman
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
- Mary Poppins Returns
Plays/Performances:
- Blame it on Bianca Del Rio
- Miss Richfield 1981: Born Again
- Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer Tour
- Hamilton
- Garbage: Version 2.0 20th Anniversary
- Anything Goes
Books and Graphic Novels:
- Saturn Apartments Vol. 6 by Hisae Iwaoka
- Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
- Here by Richard McGuire
- Saturn Apartments Vol. 7 by Hisae Iwaoka
- Shoplifter by Michael Cho
- Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
- Full Bleed Vol. 1 edited by Dirk Wood
- Doctor Who: The Eyeless by Lance Parkin
- The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang
- Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris
- Moonstruck Vol. 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle
- Spinning by Tillie Walden
- Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds
- Epileptic by David B.
- Full Bleed Vol. 2 edited by Dirk Wood
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 12 by Fumi Yoshinaga
- Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman
- Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
- The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang
- Time Was by Ian McDonald
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- Check Please! Vol. 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
- The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo by Drew Weing
- Japanese Notebooks: A Journey to the Empire of Signs by Igort
- Gumballs by Erin Nations
- Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
- My Brother’s Husband Vol. 2 by Gengoroh Tagame
- I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land by Connie Willis
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — Creating a Champion by various authors
Previous Years’ Tallies: