And after seeing only four films in theaters in 2021, we saw 10 this year (for comparison, we saw none in a theater in 2020 and 22 in 2019!)
While the Fabelmans, Elvis, Top Gun: Maverick, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness were among my favorites in the theater, with so many films dropping so quickly on streaming, it seems a bit meaningless to consider them separately from other films. So along with those, I’d name the Swimmers, Enola Holmes 2, Rosaline, and West Side Story among my favorites.
New this year was my significantly increased consumption of podcasts (Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast), and YouTube content, particularly from specific channels like Cartoonist Kayfabe, ComicTropes, Cultured Bubble and BeKindRewind.
I also always try to keep a book on the nightstand (or rather, on the Kindle app on my iPad). Among the books I read this year were The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe by Robert Matzen; American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber; Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr by Stephen Michael Shearer, Kenneth Branagh: A Beginning (which I had read on its publication in 1989), and Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner by Nina Munk. I also read (and re-read/re-visited) a bunch of comics, my favorite among them being a recent World’s Finest series, King of Spies by Mark Millar and Matteo Scalera, and the Mighty Return of Ric Hochet books 3 and 4 by Zidrou and Van Liemt Simon.
Anyway, the complete full list can be viewed after the jump.
Films
The Fabelmans – Bruin (11/27/22)
Bullet Train (8/21/22)
Elvis (6/26/22)
Top Gun: Maverick (5/29/22)
Downton Abbey: A New Era (5/26/22)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (5/8/22)
Batman (3/19/22)
Uncharted (02/20/22)
The King’s Man (01/02/22)
Death on the Nile (02/19/22)
Streaming Films/DVD/BluRay
Rosaline - Hulu (12/13/22)
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol – Netflix (12/12/22)
Trouble With Angels – Netflix (12/10/22)
Audrey (Audrey Hepburn documentary) – Netflix (12/7/22)
Pride and Prejudice (1940) – TCM (12/5/22)
Her Highness and the Bellboy – TCM (12/5/22)
The Sparks Brothers – Netflix (12/3/22)
The Martha Mitchell Effect (12/2/22)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri – Prime (11/27/22)
The Bigamist – Prime (11/27/22)
The People We Hate at the Wedding – Prime (11/22/22)
March of the Wooden Soldiers – YouTube (11/24/22) - rewatch
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker – Paramount+ (11/21/22)
The Manchurian Candidate – DVD with Frankenheimer commentary (11/20/22)
The Manchurian Candidate – DVD (11/20/22) – rewatch
Glengarry Glen Ross – Hulu (11/19/22) - rewatch
Pillow Talk – TCM (11/19/22)
Boys’ Night Out – TCM (11/18/22)
The Drowning Pool – TCM (11/18/22)
Ziegfield Girl – TCM (11/18/22)
Automat – HBOMax (11/15/22)
Is That Black Enough For You – Netflix (1/15/22)*
Prisoner of Zenda – TCM (11/14/22)*
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream house – TCM (11/13/22)*
Experiment Perilous – TCM (11/13/22)
Comrade X – TCM (11/11/22)*
Lady of the Tropics – TCM (11/10/22)
Enola Holmes 2 – Netflix (11/9/22)*
Island in the Sun – TCM (11/8/22)
Elvis – HBOMax HBOMax (11/8/22)
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me – Apple+ (11/7/22)
Raymond and Ray – Apple+ (11/7/22)
Ship of Fools – HBOMax (11/6/22)
Shiva Baby - HBOMax (11/5/22)
Topsy Turvy – HBOMax (11/5/22) - rewatch
Harper - HBOMax (11/4/22)
The Caine Mutiny – TCM (11/3/22) - rewatch
Cash McCall – TCM (11/2/22)
Dial M for Murder – TCM (10/31/22)
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism - TCM (10/31/22)
American Masters: Mike Nichols (TCM) – (10/30/22)
Washington Melodrama – TCM (10/29/22)
The Two Jakes - HBOMax (10/29/22)
Chinatown – HBOMax (10/28/22) - rewatch
Crossroads – YouTubeTV – TCM (10/27/22)
Up In the Air -– HBOMax (10/27/22) – rewatch
The Postman Always Rings Twice – HBOMax(10/26/22)
To Be or Not to Be – HBOMax (10/25/22) - rewatch
To Be or Not to Be (remake) – HBOMax (10/25/22)
The Conspirators – TCM (10/23/22)
Shopworn Angel – TCM (10/18/22)
The Player – HBOMax (10/15/22) – rewatch
Gone with the Wind - HBOMax (10/14/22) – rewatch
Shampoo – Prime (10/13/22) – rewatch
Heaven Can Wait – Prime (10/13/22) - rewatch
Here Comes Mr. Jordan – TCM (10/12/22)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith – TCM (10/12/22)
Sunset Blvd – DVD (10/12/22)
Bridge Over the River Kwai – HBOMax (10/10/22) - rewatch
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music – HBOMax (10/10/22)
Tortilla Flat (10/7/22)
In Name Only – TCM/YouTubeTV (10/5/22)
It’s a Wonderful World – TCM/YouTubeTV (10/5/22)
The Talk of the Town – TCM/YouTubeTV (10/5/22)
Dishonored Lady – Prime (10/4/22)
Strange Woman – Prime (10/4/22)
Algiers – TCM/YouTubeTV (10/4/22)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room – Hulu (10/3/22)
Made for Each Other - Prime (10/3/22)
Come Live with Me – FB page – (10/2/22)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Extended versions – HBOMax (9/29/22)
Ed Wood - YouTube (9/5/22)
The Fundamentals of Caring – Netflix (8/24/22)
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure (8/22/22)
Return of the Caped Crusaders - HBOMax (8/21/22)
Belle - HBOMax (8/12/22)
Office Space – YouTube (8/11/22)
The BachViva Las Vegas – HBOMax (8/7/22)
Richard Jewell – YouTubeTV (8/7/22)
Lightyear – Disney+ (8/6/2022)
Bedazzled – YouTube (7/31/22)
Sea Beast – Netflix (7/18/22)
Flight of the Phoenix – HBOMax (7/15/22)
Ocean’s 13 – HBOMax (7/7/22)
Ocean’s 12 – HBOMax (7/6/22)
They Shall Not Grow Old – HBOMax (6/30/22)
Dick – Hulu (6/29/22)
Dodsworth – YouTubeTV (6/28/22)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – Prime (6/27/22)
Raiders of the Lost Ark – Paramount+ (6/22/22)
Dean Martin: King of Cool – TCM (6/20/22)
Splash – YouTube (6/14/22) - rewatch
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol – Prime (6/12/22) - rewatch
Pride and Prejudice - DVD (6/8/22) - rewatch
Go for Broke – TCM (5/28/22) - rewatch
No TIme for Comedy – TCM (5/28/22)
James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: Two Faces of America – TCM (5/28/22)
Bullets Over Broadway – YouTube (5/25/22) – rewatch
The Horn Blows at Midnight – TCM (5/24/22) - rewatch
Arsenic and Old Lace – TCM (5/19/22) - rewatch
Express to Shanghai – TCM (5/17/22) - rewatch
Only Angels Have Wings – TCM (5/15/22) - rewatch
Bringing Up Baby – TCM (5/12/22) - rewatch
Philadelphia Story – HBOMax (4/27/22) - rewatch
MASH – HBOMax (4/15/22) - rewatch
Born Yesterday – TCM (4/14/222)
Charade – Prime (4/13/22) - rewatch
How to Steal a Million – TCM (4/13/22) - rewatch
Ninotchka – TCM (4/9/22) - rewatch
Harvey Girls – TCM (4/9/22)
Double Indemnity – TCM (4/9/22) - rewatch
Ship Ahoy – TCM (4/8/22) - rewatch
The Man Who Knew Too Much – HBOMax (4/1/22)
San Francisco – TCM (4/1/22)
Around the World in 80 Days – HBOMax (3/22/22)
The Grapes of Wrath – TCM (3/22/22)
Lincoln – Prime (3/11/2022) - rewatch
A Patch of Blue – TCM (3/10/22)
Eye in the Sky - Netflix (3/8/22)
Margin Call – Netflix (3/7/22) - rewatch
In the Heat of the Night – HBOMax (03/6/22) - rewatch
West Side Story – DisneyPlus (3/6/22)
Case Sensitive: The Point of Rescue – Prime (2/10/22)
Death at a Funeral (British version) - Prime (2/10/22) -rewatch
The Best Man – TCM (2/8/22) – partial
Support Your Local Gunfighter – YouTube (2/8/22)
Support Your Local Sheriff – YouTube (2/7/22)
View from the Top – HBOMax (2/4/22)
Lady of the Manor – Prime (2/3/22)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – HBOMax (2/2/22) - rewatch
Shopgirl – Prime (2/1/22)
First Man – YouTubeTV (2/26/22) - rewatch
Belfast – Prime Rental (1/23/22)
Paddington Bear 2 – HBOMax (1/19/22)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Prime (1/19/22) - rewatch
The Mitford Sisters – Netflix (1/17/22)
Mr. Mom – YouTube (1/16/22) - rewatch
Lethal Weapon 3 – HBOMax (1/15/22) - rewatch
Curtiz – HBOMax (1/11/22)
News of the World – HBOMax (1/11/22)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – YouTube free (1/9/22) - rewatch
Don’t Look Up - Netflix (01/01/22)
No Time to Die – Prime rental (01/01/22)
TV/Streaming Series
Mythic Quest S3 – Eps 4–5 – Apple+ (Xmas episode – (12/1/22)
The Laughter and Secrets of Love Actually (Diane Sawyer) – Hulu (11/30/22)
Wednesday Eps finale (11/29/22)
MythicQuest S3-Eps 1–3 – Apple+(11/29/22)
Wednesday S1-Eps 1–3 (11/27/22)
Orville S2 Eps 10-22 – Hulu (11/25/22)
Blockbuster S1 Ep1 – Netflix (11/3/22)
Reboot S1 Eps 4-8 – Hulu (9/21/22)
By Design: The Joe Caroff Story - TCM (10/19/22)
Avenue 5 S1-2, Eps 1–2 - HBOMax (10/18/22)
Rings of Power S1 Finale – Prime (10/15/22)
She-Hulk S1 Finale – Disney+ (10/14/22)
Artbound: Love & Rockets – KCET app (10/6/22)
Ghosts - S2E1 – CBS (9/29/22)
The Crown S2–4 – Netflix (9/25/22) - rewatch
RIngs of Power: Lord of the Rings S1 Eps 5 - Prime (9/25/22)
Reboot S1 Eps 1-3 – Hulu (9/21/22)
The Crown S1 – Netflix (9/21/22) - rewatch
Excalibur: Behind the Movie - Prime (9/20/22)
RIngs of Power: Lord of the Rings S1 Eps 2-4 - Prime (9/17/22)
She-Hulk S1 Eps 2-4 – Disney+ (9/17/22)
RIngs of Power: Lord of the Rings S1 Ep 1 - Prime (9/4/22)
Superman: The Animated Series, S2-Eps 16-18 (World’s Finest) – HBOMax (8/21/22)
She-Hulk Ep 1 – Disney+ (8/18/22)
Icons Unleashed: Star Wars, Ep. 1 – YouTube (8/6/22)
Light and Magic – Disney+ – Eps 4-6 (8/1/22)
Light and Magic – Disney+ – Eps 1–3 (7/30/22)
The Last Movie Stars – HBOMax (7/30/22)
The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks – Eps 1&2 – Prime (7/27/22)
The Orville – S1 – Hulu (7/13/22)
Murders in the Building, Eps 3–4 – Hulu (7/13/22)
Brooklyn 99, S5, Eps 1–4
Man vs. Bee, Eps 1–3 (7/7/22)
Murders in the Building, Eps 1–2 – Hulu (6/28/22)
Obi-Wan, Eps 1–6– Disneyt+ (6/22/22)
The Offer, Eps 1–5 – Paramount+ (6/22/22)
Law and Order S21 –E1-9 (6/18/21)
Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal Eps 1-4 – CNN (6/15/22)
The Orville - S1 Eps 1–3 - Hulu (6/8/22)
Pride and Prejudice (Masterpiece Theatre) – Eps 1-6 - Hulu (6/8/22)
Obi-Wan Kenobi – S1 E1-4 (6/1/2022)
Downton Abbey – S1–3 – Netflix (5/18/22) - rewatch
Pentavarete – Netflix (5/21/22)
Julia S1 – E7-8 finale (5/15/22)
Kids in the Hall S1 – E1-4 (5/15/22)
Julia S1 – E4-6 (5/12/22)
Inventing Anna S1 (5/12/22)
Julia S1 – E2–3 (5/10/22)
Severance E1 (5/7/22)
A French Village S1 E1 (4/28/22)
Ghosts S1 Finale – CBS (4/22/22)
WeCrash Finale – AppleTV (4/21/22)
Benjamin Franklin – PBS (4/21/22)
Outlaws S1Eps 2–5 – Amazon Prime (4/3/22)
Outlaws S1E1 – Amazon Prime (4/3/22)
Julia - HBOMax (4/2/22)
Succession Eps 7-9 – HBOMax (3/25/22)
The Girl from Plainville Ep 1 – Hulu (3/30/22)
The Gilded Age S1 finale Eps 8–9 – HBOMax (3/26/22)
Succession Eps 1–6 – HBOMax (3/25/22)
Our Flag Means Death Eps 7–9 – HBOMax (3/21/22)
Curb Your Enthusiasm S10–11 - HBOMax (3/21/22)
Our Flag Means Death Eps 2–6 – HBOMax (3/21/22)
WeCrash – Ep1 (3/17/22) – Apple+
Minx – S1 Eps 1–2 – (3/17/22) – Hulu
Resident Alien – S2 - ep 8 mid-season finale – (3/17/22)
Curb Your Enthusiasm – S9 (3/16/22) – HBOMax
Pamela and Tommy Ep 8 finale (3/8/22) – Hulu
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S4 E6-8 finale (3/12/22)
Dropout E3-4 – Hulu (3/9/22)
The Gilded Age S1 E4-6 – HBOMax (3/9/22)
Sex Education S3 – HBOMax (3/9/22)
Law and Order S21 E1-2 (3/83/22)
Pamela and Tommy Ep 7 (3/8/22) – Hulu
Ghosts - S1 E10
Westside Story: A 20/20 Special Edition – Disney+ (3/7/22)
Our Flag Means Death (3/6/22) – HBOMax
Dropout E1-2 – Hulu (3/6/22)
Around the World in 80 Days – PBS (3/6/22)
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S4 E3-5 (2/26/22)
Resident Alien – E2 S5 (3/3/22)
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S4 E1-2 (2/26/22)
Resident Alien – E2 S1 (2/25/22)
The Gilded Age S1E3 – HBOMax (2/18/22)
Jack Reacher S1 – Prime (2/9/22)
Ghosts (British series) S2 – HBOMax (2/6/22)
Around the World in 80 Days Eps 4-6 – PBSocal app (2/6/22)
The Gilded Age S1E1-2 – HBOMax (2/2/22)
From the Earth to the Moon – HBOMax (1/30/22) - rewatch
Book of Boba Fett S1 – Disney+ (1/26/22)
Toast of Tinseltown – YouTube (1/18/22)
Ghosts (British series) S1 – HBOMax (1/17/22)
Dick Tracy Story – YouTube (1/16/22)
Monty Python S2 - Netflix (1/12/22)
S2 Ep 4 (Buzz Aldrin) – Bishop Sketch / Chemist Sketch
S2 Ep 9 – Camp Square-Bashing / Europolice Song Contest (Sgt. Duckie's Song)
Daredevil S1 Eps 1-3 – Netflix (1/11/22)
Ghosts S1 Eps 9-10 – CBS (1/4/22)
Around the World in 80 Days Ep 1 – PBSocal app (1/4/22)
The Great S1 Eps7-10 – Hulu (1/2/22)
Podcasts
Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast:
Judd Apatow (12/29/22) Robert Wagner (11/3/22)
Paul Reiser (11/2/22) Danny Huston (11/1/22) Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss (1/6/22) Richard Donner Encore (1/6/22)
Tim Robbins (1/6/22)
Dick Van Dyke (1/6/22)
John Schuck (1/7/22)
Gabe Kaplan (1/10/22)
YouTube (of note):
The 1970s Filipino Comics "Invasion" - ComicTropes (8/13/22)
Unspeakable: Bob Kane Stole all the Credit for Creating Batman - ComicTropes (8/13/22)
Being a "Foreigner" English Girl Born in Japan | Japanese is My Native Language! ft. Jazmine – Max D. Capo (8/11/22)
JC Leyendecker: The Iconic Gay Artist We ALMOST Forgot – Kaz Rowe (8/9/22)
Reunited Apart Makes a Splash – Josh Gad (6/15/22)
How Did Woody Allen Become Woody Allen? / Sebastian Perenau (5/24/22)
Top Medieval Historian Reviews Famous Movie Scenes | Part One – History Hit (5/19/22)
Medieval Pleasures: What Was Sex Really Like In The Middle Ages? - History Hit (5/19/22)
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics – WB Channel (4/26/22)
Pioneers of Radio Comedy: The Jack Benny Show April-June 1938. All 13 Episodes with Pop-Up Annotations (4/20/22)
Top SECRETS of Making Comics! The Charlton Comic Book Guide (4/10/22) – Cartoonist Kayfabe
Culture Bubble: Watching Life of Brian (5/5/22)
STAR WARS EPISODE IV - VI for the FIRST TIME | Movie Reaction
Also: JoJo Rabbit and Monty Python and the Holy Grail
LOAC-TV: Terry and the Pirates with Special Guest Howard Chaykin (3/18/22)
Black Screen Jack benny Show comedy old time radio shows all night long (2/18/22) – The Late Late Horror Show
NUMENOR In The Second Age! | Middle Earth Lore (2/15/22) – The Broken Sword
The Life of Aragorn before The Lord of the Rings (2/16/22) – Nerd of the Rings
Howard Chaykin Shoot interview (1/23/22) – Cartoonist Kayfabe
Culture Bubble: German Reacts to Jojo Rabbit (1/22/22) - Cultured Bubble
Gary Groth Shoot Interview (1/22/22) – Cartoonist Kayfabe
Hot Fuzz Movie Reaction (1/22/22) - Cultured Bubble
The Controversies of Dave Sim (1/21/22) - Comics Tropes
Jim Shooter: From Comics Superstar to Outcast (1/21/22) - Comics Tropes
Lee Grant Overcame the Blacklist and Won an Oscar (1/21/22) - Be Kind Rewind
Books/Comics
Is This How You See Me? A Locas Story by Jaime Hernandez (10/9/22)
Valerian: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières (10/3/22) Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr by Stephen Michael Shearer (10/1/22)
Glamour and Style: The Beauty of Hedy Lamarr by Stephen Michael Shearer (9/18/22)
World’s Finest 3-4 (8/1/22)
Kenneth Branagh: A Beginning (7/4/22)
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (5/25/22)
King of Spies by Mark Millar and Matteo Scalera
The Mighty Return of Ric Hochet 3. How to Commit the Perfect Murder by Zidrou and Van Liemt Simon (5/7/22)
The Mighty Return of Ric Hochet 2. Murder in the Gardens (5/6/22)
American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber (4/28/22)
Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe, by Robert Matzen (4/6/22)
The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt (Dynamite Art Books) by Greg Hildebrandt, Tim Hildebrandt (3/22/22)
Star Wars: Tag and Bink Were Here (3/11/22)
We Told you So: Comics as Art by Michael Dean and Tom Spurgeon (3/5/22) - reread
The Quitter by Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel (1/7/22)
Made In Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go's by Gina Schock (1/10/22)
Theatre/Live Performance:
LA Comic Con (12/4/22)
WB Lot (11/17/22)
To Kill a Mockingbird (11/16/22)
Fall AVPA Music Concert (10/23/22)
WB (10/11/22)
UCLA (9/27/22)
Moulin Rouge – Pantages (7/16/22)
Hollywood Museum (6/19/22)
CCHS Spring Music Concert (5/27/22)
Banksy: Genius or Vandal – Culver City (5/5/22)
Ralph Report – Flappers, Burbank (4/30/22)
Renaissance Pleasure Faire – Irwindale (4/17/22)
WonderCon 2022 – Anaheim Convention Center (4/3/22)
Go-Go’s - Crypto .com Arena (3/31/22)
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (2/23/22)
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