Entertainment Roundup for 2022

As I do every year, here is my entertainment roundup for 2022!

With COVID restrictions easing and life beginning to return to normal, over the past year, my wife and I attended quite a number of live performances and events, ranging from concerts (the Go-Gos ), plays and musicals ( Moulin Rouge  and To Kill a Mockingbird ), a comedy show (the Ralph Report), museums and exhibitions (the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures , the Hollywood Museum and a pop-up Banksy exhibition ), and other in-person events like the Renaissance Pleasure Faire and even a book signing !

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. And, of course, streaming (or rather binging) shows and series continued to be a top occupation: Among my favorites: Ghosts (both the British and American versions!), Wednesday , the Dropout , Sex Education season 3, the Gilded Age , the Dropout , Pamela and Tommy , Minx , Julia , the Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks , SuperBro , and Re-Boot being 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 Swimmers – Netflix (12/2/22) 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) H.M. Pulham, Esq. – YouTubeTV/TCM (10/6/22) - rewatch 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) A Patch of Blue – HBOMax (2/4/22) 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) Dropout Finale – Hulu (3/8/22) 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): An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings - Folding Ideas (9/30/22) 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 Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner by Nina Munk (12/3/22) 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)