Here’s some scattered lists of favorites and anticipated books and movies and other media items from 2018. Presented mostly without comment, but I’d love to talk about anything on any of these lists probably, so ask away.
Total Films Watched: 156
Total Books Read: 43
Top Films of 2018
Blindspotting
Sorry to Bother You
Bad Times at the El Royale
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
Jane & Emma
BlacKkKlansman
Vice
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Foxtrot
A Wrinkle in Time
The Death of Stalin
Chappaquiddick
Black Panther
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Top Films I Watched for the First Time in 2018, but Were Released Previously
Munich
The Brothers Bloom
Miss Sloane
Rent
Anatomy of a Murder
Zodiac
Marie Antoinette
Punch-Drunk Love
I, Tonya
Advise and Consent
Do the Right Thing
Denial
Top 10 Books I Read in 2018
A Secular Age
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Between the World and Me
Homegoing
Educated
The Female Ruse: Women’s Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible
Good Omens
Vampires in the Temple
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture
Top 5 Podcasts
The Daily
Slow Burn
Uncivil
More Perfect
Serial
Top Songs Listened to in 2018 (according to Spotify)
“Shadowland”, The Lion King
“Americans”, Janelle Monae
“Blue Lips”, Regina Spektor
“Mr. Brightside”, The Killers
“The Rising”, Nashville Tribute Band
Honorable mention to all of Upside Down Flowers by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Top 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2018 I Missed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Burning
Shoplifters
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Hate U Give
Wildlife
Mandy
The Front Runner
Leave No Trace
Madeline’s Madeline
Top 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2019
Star Wars IX
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Captain Marvel
Avengers: Endgame
Lucy in the Sky
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Queen & Slim
John Wick: Chapter 3
Us
Honorable Mentions: Toy Story 4; X-Men: Dark Phoenix; IT: Chapter Two; The Last Thing He Wanted; Little Women; Where’d You Go, Bernadette; Godzilla: King of the Monsters; Men in Black International; The Kitchen; Wicked
Top 10 Books To Read I Already Own
The Mormon Jesus
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
White Teeth
Catch-22
Lila
Dove Song
The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
Citizen: An American Lyric
Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Lexicon
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories
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