Another year, another round-up of movies and books. In 2020, seeing films in the theatre cane screeching to a halt after the seventh item on the list (Emma), and in a bit of balance for 2021 there were only seven films on the list seen in the theatre. The latter was a combination of trying to display an abundance of caution and also a lot of films either being simultaneously released online or me being willing to wait until it was online.
The overall reading went down for 2021, for a variety of reasons that are honestly a little too much to go into here, other than that’s what happened. But on the bright side, there actually was one live performance seen, so that’s a little exciting. This isn’t really a year in review itself, so I’ll stop it there other than to say that there are a lot of things I’d certainly like to read and view in 2022, and hopefully I’ll make some significant progress on those lists.
Movies:
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
- Promising Young Woman
- Swallow
- Minari
- Disclosure
- Nomadland
- Mildred Pierce
- Tab Hunter Confidential
- AFI DOCS: Shorts Program 1 [ A Night At The Opera, The Brother (Le Frère), Bug Farm, Golden Age Karate, International Dawn Chorus Day, Invisible Monsters And Tomato Soup, Under The Lemon Tree ]
- AFI DOCS: Shorts Program 2 [ Eagles (Águilas), The Game, The Hairdresser (La Coiffeuse), The I And S Of Lives, Senior Prom, When We Were Bullies ]
- AFI DOCS: Shorts Program 3 [ The Gallery That Destroys All Shame, Mama, The One Who Crossed The Sea (Der Übers Meer Kam), Scum Boy, Souvenir Souvenir, Trade Center ]
- AFI DOCS: Shorts Program 4 [ The Beauty President, The Communion Of My Cousin Andrea, Mission: Hebron, Spaces (Mezery), The Train Station, Unforgivable (Imperdonable), The Way We Wait ]
- AFI DOCS: Shorts Program 5 [ Halpate, Nsenene, Party Line, R.I.P. T-Shirts, Red Taxi, Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging To Me (Desde Que Llegaste, Mi Corazón Dejó De Pertenecerme) ]
- AFI DOCS: Shorts Program 6 [ Audible, Coded, Shelter ]
- No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
- Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
- Zola
- The Suicide Squad
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- The Celluloid Closet
- Who You Think I Am
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- The French Dispatch
- Dune
- Tick, Tick… Boom!
- King Richard
- Passing
- Belfast
- C’mon C’mon
- Single All the Way
- The Power of the Dog
- Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
- Don’t Look Up
- Swan Song
- Red Rocket
Plays/Performances:
- The Return of the Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show Live!
Books:
- Route 66 by Thomas Ott
- The Umbrella Academy Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
- Hour of the Huntress by Dave Gross
- Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
- The Hidden Witch by Molly Knox Ostertag
- The Midwinter Witch by Molly Knox Ostertag
- Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
- Defekt by Nino Cipri
- What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 15 by Fumi Yoshinaga
- A Journal of My Father by Jiro Taniguchi
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- Yotsuba&! Vol. 15 by Kiyohiko Azuma
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- Reckless by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
- Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Previous Years’ Tallies:
