Movies & TV, Jan-Jun

[bironic]

Might as well post the movie & TV lists while we're here. Last year I did them by month; this year I collected them for longer in part for Festivids reasons and in part because I was embarrassed for a while at the proportion of sources that weren't for the auction vid. But that is chugging along now.

1. Moana ♥
2. Let the Right One In (rewatch)
3. Suddenly Last Summer -- partial
4. *[documentary by a coworker]
5. The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
6. Attack of the Crab Monsters
7. Not of This Earth
8. War of the Satellites
9. Moonlight ♥
10. Lion ♥
11. *I Am Not Your Negro
12. Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Animated
13. The Lego Batman Movie ♥
14. Hidden Figures
15. Annie (1982) (rewatch)
16. Tarzan (2016)
17. Dune (1984) (rewatch)
18. Finding Dory
19. *13th ♥ + *Ava DuVernay/Oprah Winfrey interview
20. The Neverending Story (rewatch)
21. Cloud Atlas
22. Keanu
23. The Peanuts Movie
24. Child 44
25. Therapy for a Vampire (Der Vampir auf der Couch)
26. Logan ♥
27. Lair of the White Worm ♥
28. Get Out ♥
29. Suicide Squad
30. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
31. Blade Runner (rewatch)
32. Personal Shopper
33. Pacific Rim
34. X-Men: First Class (rewatch)
35. Z for Zachariah ♥
36. Adventureland
37. The Fits ♥
38. Fantastic Four (2015)
39. Assassin's Creed
40. Babylon A.D.
41. Warcraft - partial
42. Victor Frankenstein
43. The Girl with All the Gifts
44. Hail, Caesar!
45. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
46. The Golden Compass (rewatch)
47. Beauty and the Beast (2014)
48. Mother May I Sleep with Danger (2016)
49. My Cousin Rachel
50. John Wick - partial
51. Die Another Day
52. Skyfall
53. Stalker ♥
54. xXx: Return of Xander Cage

TV:

1. Wall-to-wall TV at mom's: *Aerial America, *Living Alaska, *Alaskan Bush People, *Jeopardy!, *Wheel of Fortune, *NFL playoffs, *Property Brothers, *House Hunters International, *Too Cute, *The Lawrence Welk Show, *What's My Line/I've Got a Secret, Star Trek, *local news, *world news, *coverage of the women's marches...
2. Sense8 S1 & Xmas special ♥
3. *Trevor Noah: Afraid of the Dark
4. *John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid & John Mulaney: New in Town
5. BtVS S1 (rewatch) ♥
6. BtVS S2 (rewatch) ♥
7. Sarah & Duck S1 ♥
8. Crazyhead S1 ♥
9. Cleverman S1
10. Extant S1
11. Very British Problems S1-2
12. Travelers S1
13. Sarah & Duck S2 ♥
14. Timeless - most of S1
15. The Expanse S2 ♥
16. Girls S6 ♥
17. Grantchester S3 ♥
18. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S3
19. American Gods S1
20. Doctor Who season whatever-we're-on ♥
21. Humans S1
22. Bunch of DS9 reruns

Seen in a theater
*Documentary/nonfiction


As with the book list, happy to talk about any of these.

Comments

[kass]

I just saw Moana recently! It is charming as hell. ♥

[amnisias]

I've never heard of 'Der Vampir auf der Couch' but that sounds intriguing and should provide ample opportunity for drama as well as comedy. Have to check that one out.

I'm still watching Grantchester, and enjoying it for the most part. But I'm hoping that they soon resolve that will-they/won't-they relationship with Amanda one way or another.

[bironic]

Amen.

We had hoped the vampire movie would be funnier - but it *was* quirky, and the clothes beautiful. :)

[cuddyclothes]

I haven't seen a lot of movies on this list. I adored "Lion" and "Hail, Caesar!" "Get Out!" was one of the best movies I've seen in years. "Victor Frankenstein" is a dog. I think I published a review of it on LJ.

[bironic]

I enjoyed the unusual approach of Victor Frankenstein in the beginning, and then it fell apart. That sort of reductive "science=obnoxious godlessness" (ha, I almost said "holier-than-thou godlessness") is not interesting to me, and devolving into fight sequences is disappointing.

Hail, Caesar, I thought was... fine. Sometimes the Coen brothers work for me and sometimes the experience is more a distant intellectual appreciation of theme, craft and homage than an actual enjoyment. And I don't know enough about Golden Age Hollywood to pick up on half of what they were doing.

Yes on Lion and Get Out! I couldn't write up a reaction to Get Out because every attempt felt hopelessly inadequate.

[bironic]

Yes! A little girl behind us in the theater sang along to most of Moana's songs, and at one point stood up to belt out a long note. She then declared to the audience that she had seen the movie before. :)

[cuddyclothes]

I'm an old movie buff so all of the references hit home. Plus, their dedication to doing everything properly made me very happy. Also, I loved ID'ing all of the celebrity cameos.

[cinco]

Hey, you're rewatching Buffy! Have you heard of Buffering the Vampire Slayer, the episode-by-episode podcast by a pair of married (to each other) women who write a song for each ep? I am extremely fond of it to the point where I bought their SMASH THE DEMON LIZARD PATRIARCHY shirt. https://www.bufferingthevampireslayer.com/

[bironic]

Makes sense!

[bironic]

Ha. No, I had not heard about it. So many podcasts, so little podcast-reserved time in my life. (And now there's yet another BtVS podcast coming up from some people who contacted the Slayage scholars looking for guests! It'll be dissections of two episodes per podcast, IIRC, except for notable episodes, which will stand alone.) Thanks for the rec, though!

I went down a little BtVS rabbit hole a few months back, got all emotional about fictional friendships and teacher-mentors and college memories and stuff, and was grateful Netflix pulled their streaming episodes so I could break the habit and get back to watching my auction vid sources. :)