Books I Read 2023

The Sandman - Book One by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III and Kelley Jones ****
The Sandman - Book Two by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, and Colleen Doran ****

The Sandman - Book Three by Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, Bryan Talbot, P. Craig Russell and Vince Locke ****

The Sandman - Book Four by Neil Gaiman, Marc Hempel, Michael Zulli. Jon J Muth and Charles Vess *****

Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino ****

The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson ***1/2

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard ***

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi ***

The Enterprise NCC-1701 and the Model Maker by N. Datin McDonald and Richard C. Datin Jr. ***

Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made by David Hughes ***

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country by John Jackson Miller ***1/2

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson ****

Later by Stephen King ***1/2

Death by Neil Gaiman ***

Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom by Carl Bernstein ***

Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child by Frank Miller, Rafael Grampá with Jordie Bellaire ***

Sinkable: Obsession, The Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic by Daniel Stone ***

Star Trek: Harm's Way by David Mack **

Red Notice by Bill Browder ***

Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast by John Vaillant ****

Phasers on Stun! How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World by Ryan Britt ***

Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and Philip Tan ***1/2

Batman & Robin: Batman & Robin Must Die! by Grant Morrison, Frank Frazer Irving and David Finch ***

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham ****

All About Me! by Mel Brooks ***1/2

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King, Bilquis Evelu and Matheus Lopes ***1/2

Abbey Road by David Hepworth ***

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow **

Holly by Stephen King ***1/2

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson ****

North Korea Journal by Michael Palin ***1/2

The Defector by Chris Hadfield ***

Making It So by Patrick Stewart ***1/2

My Effin’ Life by Geddy Lee ****

The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, From Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies by Ryan Britt ***1/2

TV I Watched in 2023

 Loki - Season One **
The Monster Squad ***

Sphinx *1/2

The Right Stuff *****

The Seven-Ups **

Doug and the Slugs and Me ***1/2

Hamlet (1948) ****

Cunk On Earth ***

About Time **

The Adjustment Bureau **

Ted Lasso - Season One *****

Ted Lasso - Season Two *****

Ted Lasso - Season Three *****

Bad Sisters - Season One ****

Defendor *
Bullitt ****

Daisy Jones and The Six ***

Son of a Critch - Season Two ***1/2

MH370 - The Plane That Disappeared **

The Green Helmet *

WandaVision *****

Titanic: The Aftermath **

Good Omens - Season One ****

Star Trek: Picard -- Season Three *****

Wednesday -- Season One ****

The In-Laws (1979) *****

The Snow Devils *

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ***

For All Mankind - Season One ****

For All Mankind - Season Two ****

For All Mankind - Season Three ****

The Reluctant Traveler - Season One ***

The Good Place - Season One ****

The Good Place - Season Two ****

The Good Place - Season Three ****

The Good Place - Season Four ****

Of Unknown Origin **

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves ***

1982 - Greatest Geek Year Ever! ***

The Sentinel *1/2

Shadow of the Cat **

Good Omens 2 ***1/2

Executive Action **1/2

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season Two ***1/2

The Current War **1/2

Babylon 5: The Road Home ***1/2

Operation Mincemeat ***

What We Do In the Shadows - Season 5 ***

"They'll Love Me When I'm Dead" ***

Roger & Me *****

Death on the Nile (2022) ***1/2

Asteroid City ***

Point Blank ***

The Flash ***

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar ****

The Swan ***

The Rat Catcher **

Poison ***

The X From Outer Space *

Double Dynamite **1/2

Lisztomania *

A Girl in Every Port **1/2

A Night at the Opera ***1/2

Go West ***

At The Circus ***

The Big Store ***

A Day at the Races ****

Renfield ***1/2

The Ipcress File ***

Billion Dollar Brain ***

Pumpkinhead *

From Beyond the Grave ***

Halloween (1978) ****

Saboteur *** 

The Blob (1988) ***

Poltergeist (1982) ***1/2

Fright Night (1985) ***1/2

The Awakening *1/2

Exorcist III ***

Curse of the Crimson Alter **

Star Trek: Lower Decks -- Season Four ***

Duck Soup *****

Kingdom of the Spiders * (or *****)

All The Light You Cannot See **

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming ****

Head *

Blackberry ***

Fargo -- Season Four ***1/2

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter **

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiney ***1/2

Animal Crackers ****

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story ****

The House ** 1/2

The Shepherd ***

Carol For Another  Christmas ***

Maestro ****

Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire **

The Crown — Season Six ***

The Miracle Club **

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) ***1/2

The Amazing Transparent Man *1/2

Invisible Invaders *

Movies I Watched 2023

Barbie ****
Oppenheimer ****

TV I Watched 2022

Dune (1984)  ***

Dune (2021) ****

A Night at the Opera **** 

The Kids Are Alright *****

Unholy Rollers **

No Time to Die ****

Frogs *

Nightmare Alley (1947) ***

Nightmare Alley (2021) ****

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek - Season One **1/2

The Boston Strangler (1968) **1/2

Patty Hearst **1/2

The French Dispatch ****

Electra Guide in Blue **

Trapped - Season One ****

Trapped - Season Two ****

Ghostbusters: Afterlife ****

Green Book ****

Eternals ***1/2

The Matrix Resurrections ***

Titanic (1953) ***

Star Trek: Discovery - Season Four ***

Superstore - Season One ****

Dr. Who and the Daleks **

Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD **

Son of a Critch -- Season One ***1/2

Amazing Spider-Man **1/2

Amazing Spider-Man 2 **1/2

Spider-Man: Homecoming ***1/2

Spider-Man: Far From Home ****

Spider-Man: No Way Home ****1/2

It! (1967) **

Star Trek: Picard - Season Two ***1/2

West Side Story (2021) ***

Zero Hero! ***

Maudie ***

The Batman ****

Simon **1/2

The Invisible Boy * 1/2

Isle of Dogs ****

The Sandman - Season One ****1/2

Wellington Paranormal - Season Three ***

Wellington Paranormal - Season Four ***

What We Do In the Shadows - Season Four ****

The Beatles - Get Back ****

Summit '72 *****

Entrapped (Trapped - Season Three) ***

IT Chapter Two ***

Burnt Offerings ***

Doctor Sleep ***

Star Trek: Lower Decks - Season Three ***

Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities ***

Cronos ***1/2

Matinee ***1/2

The Crown - Season 5 ***

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 ***

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special ***

Three Pines - Season 1 ***

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio ****

Everything Everywhere All At Once ***1/2

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ***1/2

Star Trek: Prodigy - Season One ***1/2

Charade ****

Books I Read 2022

 The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield ****
The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek by Peter Holmstrom ***1/2

"Frankly, We Did Win This Election" - The Inside Story of How Trump Lost by Michael C. Bender ***1/2

The Starcrossed by Ben Bova ***

Vivian Maier Developed by Ann Marks ****

Star Trek: The Antares Maelstrom by Greg Cox **1/2

The First Signs by Genevieve von Petzinger ***

The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson *****

1972 - The Series That Changed Hockey Forever by Scott Morrison ***1/2

The Series by Ken Dryden ***

Fairy Tale by Stephen King ***1/2

To Everything That Might Have Been - The Lost Universe of Space: 1999 by David Hirsch and Robert E. Wood with Christopher Penfold ***

Confidence Man - The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman ****

Star Trek: Spock Must Die! by James Blish ***

The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American by Andrew L. Seidel ***

Star Trek: The Galactic Whirlpool by David Gerrold ***

TV I Watched 2021

Tenet ***

The Meg ***

Hanger 18 **

They Shall Not Grow Old *****

Star Trek: Discovery -- Season Three ***

The Queen's Gambit ***1/2

The History of Swear Words ***

Murder, She Said ***

Murder at the Gallop ***

Murder Most Foul ***

Murder, Ahoy! ***

Battle Beneath the Earth *

The Snow Devils *

Groundhog Day ****

X-Men: Apocalypse **

Piranha (1978) **

Tintorera *

The Dig ***

The Great Train Robbery ***

The Dunwich Horror **

Hillbilly Elegy ***

Kansas City Bomber **

Son of Kong **

Wonder Woman 1984 ***

The Salisbury Poisonings ****

Ready Player One ***

The Intouchables ***1/2

1917 ***1/2

David Byrne's American Utopia *****

A Bucket of Blood **1/2

Jupiter's Legacy Volume 1 ***1/2

My Octopus Teacher *****

Enola Holmes ***

The Hateful Eight ***1/2

Frankenstein 1970 **

Godzilla Raids Again **

The Most Hated Woman in America ***

The Impossible **

Robinson Crusoe on Mars *

Catlow **

The Movies That Made Us - Season 2 ****

Wellington Paranormal - Season 1 ***1/2

The Omen  (1976) ****

The Parallax View ****

Penn & Teller Get Killed *

WarGames ***

The Man Who Skied Down Everest ****

Zack Snyder's Justice League ****

The Hospital ****

Rollerball (1975) ****

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ***

Wellington Paranormal - Season 2 *** 1/2

Silver Streak ***

Doctor X ***

The Haunting of Bly Manor ****

Truck Turner **

Dolemite **

Maid -- Season One ****

Star Trek: Lower Decks - Season 2 ***1/2

The Movies That Made Us - Season 3 ***

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns ***

Black Widow ****

The Mummy's Shroud **

Straight-Jacket ***

The Bat **

The Killer Shrews *

Night of the Lepus *

Rattlers *

The Pack *

The Swarm *

Frankenstein (1931) ***

The Curse of Frankenstein ***

Tomb of Ligeia ***

The Horror of Dracula ***

It (2017) ***

Chamber of Horrors **

Horror Hotel **

Curse of the Demon **

Macabre **

Dracula - Prince of Darkness ***

Crescendo **

Dracula Has Risen From the Grave ***

The Abominable Dr. Phibes **

Frankenstein Created Woman ***

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed ***

Taste the Blood of Dracula ***

Needful Things ***

The Good Liar ****

Skidoo **

Exorcist II: The Heretic *

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) ****

The Devil's Rain *

It! The Terror From Beyond Space **

The Power of the Dog ***

The Mutations **

Legend (1985) **

Father Christmas is Back **

Shaun the Sheep in The Flight Before Christmas *****

A Boy Called Christmas ***

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ***1/2

Don't Look Up ****

Rosemary's Baby ****

Death to 2021 ****

Books I Read 2021

A Promised Land by Barack Obama ****

Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who From Lifehouse to Quadrophenia by Ritchie Unterberger ***

Finder by Suzanne Palmer **

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi ****

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi ****

The Last Emperox by John Scalzi ****

Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe by Dr. Bonnie Henry & Lynne Henry ***

The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey by Piers Bizony *****

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline ***

A Long Time Ago In A Cutting Room Far, Far Away.... by Paul Hirsch ***1/2

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga *****

Nightflyers by George R. R. Martin ***1/2

Pink Floyd: Pigs Might Fly by Mark Blake ****

Manhunter by Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson ****

To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino *****

Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland *****

Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski ****

A Very Stable Genius - Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonning ****

I Alone Can Fix It - Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonning and Philip Rucker ****

Secrets of the Force - The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Wars by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman ****

Landslide by Michael Wolff ***1/2

Radicalized by Cory Doctorow ****

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino ****

Billy Summers by Stephen King ****

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher ***

Devolution by Max Brooks ****

Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier -- How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the Future by Dan Chavkin and Brian McGuire ****

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness by Gareth Williams ***

Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa ***

Star Trek: A Celebration by Ben Robinson and Ian Spelling ***

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King ****

Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry ***

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension by Earl Mac Rauch *****

Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League et al - A Compendium of Evils by Earl Mac Rauch **

Saturn Run by John Sanford and Ctein ***

The Resistance: Uprising *** by J. Michael Straczynksi, C.P. Smith, Snakebite, Cortex and Lee Loughbridge ***

Books I Read in 2020

The Natural Light Portrait Book by Scott Kelby *** 

Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos ***1/2 

The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos by Marc Silber *** 

Understanding Composition Field Guide by Bryan Peterson ***1/2 

The Institute by Stephen King *** 

Nobody Does It Better: The Complete Uncensored Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross **** 

The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend *** 

London Under by Peter Ackroyd ** 

The Ox: The Authorized Biography of The Who's John Entwistle by Paul Rees **** 

Medallion Status by John Hodgman *** 

Anatomy of a Song by Marc Myers *** 

The Plots Against Hitler by Danny Orbach *** 

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton *** 

The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson ***1/2 

Trumpocalypse by David Frum *** 

Star Trek: Seekers 1: Second Nature by David Mack *** 

Song of a Nation by Robert Harris ***1/2 

The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton *** 

American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin ***1/2 

The Nazi Titanic by Robert P. Watson **1/2 

These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s - Volume Two 1975-1977 by Marc Cushman **** 

These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s - Volume Three 1978-1980 by Marc Cushman **** 

Head On by John Scalzi *** 

Beaming Up and Getting Off by Walter Koenig *** 

Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. 

The Show Runner by Cy Chermak *** 

Siege by Michael Wolff *** 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Inside the Art and Visual Effects by Jeff Bond and Gene Kozicki *****

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte *** 

The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon *** 

Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth by Ian Nathan *** 

The Beatles Lyrics by Hunter Davis *** 

Rage by Bob Woodward **** 

Disloyal by Michel Cohen **1/2 

The Making of the October Crisis by D'Arcy Jenish **** 

The Resistance Vol. 1 by J.Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato Jr., Frank Martin and Lee Loughridge *** 

Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank and Brad Anderson ***** 

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry **** 

Star Trek: The Unsettling Stars by Alan Dean Foster *** 

Star Trek: More Beautiful Than Death by David Mack ** 

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown **1/2 

Scotty by Ken Dryden *** 

I Am C-3PO by Anthony Daniels ***1/2

TV I Watched in 2020

Beyond the Time Barrier * 

The Monuments Men *** 

The Witcher Season 1 **1/2 

Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood *** 

Robin Hood (2010) **1/2 

Shazam! ***1/2 

To Be or Not To Be (1942) **** 

Once Upon a Time in America *** 

Deathsport *1/2 

Fargo Season 1 ***** 

Fargo Season 2 ***** Fargo Season 3 ***** 

Big Trouble in Little China **** 

The Thing (1982) *** 

Who Killed Malcolm X? **** 

ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas *** 

#CATS_the_mewvie *** 

Super Fly ** 

Star Trek: Picard - Season One **** 

Chariots of Fire *** 

Inside Llewyn Davis *** 

Schitt's Creek - Season Six **** 

Dracula (1979) *** 

Aquaman *** 

Grace and Frankie Season Six ***1/2 

Gosford Park *** 

The 39 Steps *** 

Koyaanisqatsi **** 

Head ** 

The Haunting of Hill House (2018)*** 

Love and Mercy *** 

More American Graffiti *** 

Django Unchained ***1/2 

Watergate ***** 

The Lonely Guy *** 

Space Force Season One *** 

Colossus: The Forbin Project **** 

ffolkes *** 

Capone ** 

The Man Who Wasn't There *** 

Argo *** 

The Eagle Has Landed *** 

Psycho II **1/2 

Malcolm X ***** 

Konga * 

Godless ***1/2 

The Bride *1/2 

Skyjacked **1/2 

The Wreck of the Mary Deare *** 

Knives Out **** 

The Song Remains the Same ** 

The Kids Are Alright ***** 

Neil Young: Heart of Gold **** 

Holmes & Watson *1/2 

Reefer Madness * 

Plan 9 From Outer Space * (or *****) 

Casino Royale (1967) ** 

The Social Dilemma *** 

Challenger: Final Flight ***** 

The Harlem Globetrotters (1951) *** 

The Green Slime ** 

War of the Planets * 

Unidentified Flying Objects ** 

The Wild, Wild Planet * 

Satellite in the Sky * 

A Girl in Every Port *** 

Double Dynamite **1/2 

The Ninth Gate **1/2 

The Front Page (1974) *** 

The Trial of the Chicago 7 ***** 

Trickster Season One **** 

The Ipcress File **** 

The Crown: Season Four **** 

Dancing with the Birds **** 

Into the Inferno *** 

The Christmas Chronicles Part Two *** 

When We Were Kings **** 

The Holiday Movies That Made Us Season One *** 

A Christmas Carol (1999) **1/2 

Bill and Ted Face the Music *** 

Moonrise Kingdom **** 

Selma ****

Airport 1975 **

Death to 2020 ****

Movies I Watched in 2020

Sit in a theatre?!? Not this year. Are you kidding?!?

Books I Read in 2019

Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan ****
Star Trek: New Visions - Volume Eight by John Byrne ***
These are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s - Volume One 1970-1975 by Marc Cushman ****
Secrets From the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean *****
Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson ***1/2
Professor at Large -- The Cornell Years by John Cleese ***
Erebus by Michael Palin ****
The Landscape Photography Book by Scott Kelby ***1/2
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley ***
Shoot for the Moon by James Donovan ***1/2
Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski *****
Star Trek: The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre ***
Star Trek: Ex Machina by Christopher L. Bennett ***1/2
Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series by Aaron Harvey and Rich Schepis ***1/2
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe ****
Star Trek: The USS Enterprise NCC-1701 and 1701-A Illustrated Handbook edited by Ben Robinson ****
Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power by Aaron Wherry ***
Nuking the Moon by Vince Houghton ***
1922 by Stephen King ***

TV I Watched in 2019

The Conversation ****
At The Circus ***
Flight of the Conchords: Live in London ****
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) ***1/2
First Man *****
Grace and Frankie Season 5 ****
Dog Day Afternoon ****
Godzilla (2014) **1/2
A Day at the Races ****
Midnight Express ****
La La Land *****
Big Eyes ***
The Terminal Man *
Star Trek: Discovery -- Season Two ***
The Orville -- Season Two ***1/2
The Highwaymen ***
The Happytime Murders ***
The Death of Stalin ****
Apollo 11 *****
White Comanche *
The Invention of Lying ****
What We Do in the Shadows -- Season One ****
Fosse/Verdon -- Season One ****
Elysium ***
After Life -- Season One ****
Myra Breckinridge *
The Battle of Algiers ****
The Gumball Rally ***
Sharkwater: Extinction *****
NOS4A2: Season One ***1/2
The Terror ****
Steve Martin and Martin Short -- An Evening You Will Forget Your Whole Life ***1/2
Trog *
Horse Feathers ****
Dr. No ***
From Russia With Love ****
Goldfinger ****
Thunderball ***
You Only Live Twice ***
Diamonds Are Forever **1/2
Live and Let Die **1/2
The Man With the Golden Gun ***
The Spy Who Loved Me ****
Moonraker **
For Your Eyes Only ***1/2
Toy Story 4 ****
Get Out ****
Chinatown ****
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls *
Eating Raoul ***
The Toys That Made Us Season 3 ****
Echo in the Canyon ***
The Crown: Season 3 ***1/2
The Movies That Made Us Season 1 ***1/2
Game of Thrones Season 8 ****
The Irishman *****

Movies I Watched in 2019

Captain Marvel ***1/2
Avengers: Endgame ****
Rocketman ***1/2
Yesterday ***
Joker *****
Star Wars: Episode Nine: The Rise of Skywalker ***1/2

Books I Read in 2018

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari *****
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari *****
The Edge of Reason by Melinda Snodgrass ***
The Edge of Ruin by Melinda Snodgrass ***
The Edge of Dawn by Melinda Snodgrass **
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by Daivd Frum ***
Star Trek: New Visions Volume 6 by John Byrne ***
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff ***1/2
Artemis by Andy Weir ****
The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi **
DC Universe Secret Origins by A Whole Bunch of Legends *****
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe ***1/2
Dunkirk by Joshua Levine **
Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten ***
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline *****
Sleeping Giant by Sylvain Neuvel ***
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel ***
Willful Child by Steven Erickson ***
Welcome Home: Travels in Small-Town Canada by Stuart McLean ***
Vinyl Cafe Diaries by Stuart McLean ****
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson *****
Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger ***
The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip by Michael Barclay ****
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean ***
The Outsider by Stephen King ***1/2
Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work) by Gwynne Dyer ****
The People's Police by Norman Spinrad ***
The Race Underground by Doug Most **
Fantasyland by Kurt Anderson **
The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milán ***1/2
The Dinosaur Knights by Victor Milán ***1/2
The Dinosaur Princess by Victor Milán ***
Advancing Your Photography by Marc Silber ***
The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt ***
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison by Nat Segaloff *****
The Crash Detectives by Christine Negroni ***
Star Trek: New Visions Volume 7 by John Byrne ***
Star Trek: Lost Scenes by David Tilotta and Curt McAloney *****
The Berlin Project by Gregory Benford ***
Unhinged by Omarosa Manigault Newman ***
So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross ****
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman ***
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward ***
Irontown Blues by John Varley *****
Batman: The Dark Knight: The Master Race by Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, Klaus Janson, Brad Anderson and Alex Sinclair ****
Let the Good Times Roll by Kenney Jones ***
Hockey Fight in Canada by David Shoalts ***
A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC by Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman ***1/2
Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story by Roger Daltrey ****
Elevation by Stephen King ***1/2
The Great Quake by Henry Fountain ***
Star Trek Cats by Jenny Parks ***
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein ***
Fury from the Tomb by S.A. Sidor **

TV I Watched in 2018

The Crown: Season Two ***1/2
Robocop (2014) **1/2
Hugo *****
Stranger Things ***1/2
Titanic (1953) **1/2
Go West ***
The Big Store ***
At the Circus ***
Room Service ***
A Night at the Opera ***
A Day at the Races ****
Four Days in November **1/2
Victor Frankenstein ***
My Favorite Year *****
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo *
Star Trek: Discovery -- Season One ****
After Trek -- Season One ***
Thor: Ragnarok ***1/2
Imagine: John Lennon ****
Concert For George *****
Idiocracy **
The X-Files: Season 11 ***
Queen Rock the World ***
The Magnetic Monster *
Die, Monster, Die! *
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues! *
The H Man! *
Schitt's Creek: Season Four ****
Hans Zimmer Live in Prague ***
Trouble Man ***
The Gumball Rally ***
Shadow of the Vampire ***
San Andreas *
Deadpool ***
Grace and Frankie Season 4 ***
The Toys That Made Us Season 1 *****
The Toys That Made Us Season 2 *****
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman ***
The Wild, Wild Planet *
Facing Ali *****
Coco *****
Lady Bird ***
The Walk ***1/2
Prehistoric Women *
Loving Vincent ****
Spotlight *****
Zero Hour! ***
Vanishing Point (1971) ***
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) ***1/2
Paths of Glory *****
Sleuth ****
The Shape of Water *****
Black Panther ****
Avengers: Infinity Wars ****
Sully ***
Winchester ** 1/2
A Night at the Opera ****
The Danish Girl ****
Independence Day: Resurgence **
Superman: Extended Edition ****
Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson *****
Zoolander 2 ***
Operation Eichmann ***
A Day at the Races *****
The Mummy's Hand **
The Mummy's Ghost **1/2
The Mummy's Curse **
A Brief History of Time ****
For All Mankind *****
Nosferatu ***
The Devil's Bride **1/2
Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy ***
The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy *
The Black Hole **
Horror of Dracula ***
Dracula, Prince of Darkness ***
Horror Hotel ***
Die, Monster, Die! **
The Mummy (1959) ***
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb **
The Old Dark House **
Dracula A.D. 1972 ***
Rasputin The Mad Monk **1/2
Pharaoh's Curse *1/2
Son of Frankenstein ***
The Curse of Frankenstein ***
Frankenstein Created Woman ***
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed ***
White Zombie ***
Mark of the Vampire **
Night Monster **
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave ***
The Mummy's Shroud *1/2
The Fly (1958) ***1/2
The Frozen Dead *1/2
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth *
House of Haunted Hill **1/2
2001: A Space Odyssey *****
The Last Man on Earth ***
The Tigers of Scotland ****
Mercury 13 ****
Theatre of Blood **
Fantastic Mr. Fox *****
The Pit and The Pendulum **
The Man From UNCLE (2015) ****
The Ice Pirates *
Christmas Chronicles ***
Dumplin' ***
78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene ***
Frenzy ***
High Anxiety **
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ****
Cannibal Girls **
Airport ****
Canada's Worst Driver: Season 14 *****
Springsteen on Broadway ***
The Fog of War *****

Movies I Watched in 2018

Solo ***
Juliet, Naked ***
Bohemian Rhapsody ****
Mary Poppins Returns ***

Books I Read 2017

The 37th Parallel by Ben Mezrich **
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah ****
Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics -- The Complete Series Volume Two 1970-1972 edited by Dean Mullaney ***1/2
Testimony by Robbie Robertson *****
Cutter's Wars: The Ramal Extraction by Steve Perry ***
Cutter's Wars: The Vastalimi Gambit by Steve Perry **1/2
Cutter's Wars: The Tejano Conflict by Steve Perry **
So, Anyway by John Cleese *****
The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milán ***1/2
Company Town by Madeline Ashby ****
I Am Brian Wilson by Brian Wilson with Ben Greenman ****
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer ***
The West End Horror by Nicholas Meyer ***
Stories from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean ***
Home from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean ****
Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean ****
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly **
Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole **
Beatles vs. Stones by John McMillian ****
Wonder Woman: Earth One: Volume One by Grant Morrison, Yanick Paquette and Nathan Fairbairn ***
Drake by Peter McLean ***1/2
Dominion by Peter McLean ***1/2
Damnation by Peter McLean ***1/2
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward **1/2
Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen ***1/2
Starslayer by Mike Grell ****
Einstein by Walter Isaacson ****
Staking Claims to a Continent by James Laxer ***
Teen Titans: Earth One: Volume Two by Jeff Lemire, Andy Macdonald, Brad Anderson and Allen Passalaqua ***
Fighting God by David Silverman ***
The Death of Caesar by Barr Strauss ***
Star Trek: New Visions Volume 5 by John Byrne ****
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma ***
Crossing the Line by Derek Sanderson with Kevin Shea ***
Bolt and Keel: The Wild Adventures of Two Rescued Cats by Kayleen VanderRee and Danielle Gumbley ****
Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics -- The Complete Series Volume Three 1972-1979 edited by Dean Mullaney ***1/2
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King ***1/2
Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar ***1/2
Impulse by Dave Bara ***
Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film by Alexandra Zapruder ***1/2
Christmas at the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean *****

TV I Wached 2017

The Trouble With Harry ***1/2
Shadow of a Doubt ***
Marnie ***
Rollerball (1975) ****
The Man Who Knew Too Much ***
Comic Book Confidential ***
Torn Curtain ***
Rope ***
Vertigo ****
Strangers on a Train ****
Hail, Caesar! ***1/2
Suicide Squad **1/2
Sherlock: Season 4 ****
David Brent: Life on the Road ***
Hector's Search For Happiness ***
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution ***
Shaft ***
Shaft's Big Score! **
Shaft in Africa **
her ****
Bobby Fischer Against the World ***
Edge of Tomorrow ***1/2
Finding Dory *****
Westworld (1973) **1/2
The Gorgon **1/2
The X From Outer Space *
20 Million Miles to Earth **
The Theory of Everything ****
Grace and Frankie Season 3 ****
Julius Caesar (1953) ***
Panic in Year Zero! **
Night of the Lepus * (or *****)
The Sugarland Express ***1/2
The Giant Claw *
Empire of the Ants *
The Deadly Mantis **
The Killer Shrews *
Corvette Summer ***
It's Alive *
Our Man in Marrakesh **
What We Do In The Shadows ***
Jackie ***1/2
The Wrong Man ***
In the Heat of the Night ****
Woman in Gold ***
12 Years a Slave ****
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo ****
Hidden Figures ****
Fantastic Four (2015) ***
Destination Moon **1/2
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze *
Long Time Running ****
Alias Grace ***
Dracula AD 1972 **
The Peanuts Movie ****
Eight Days a Week: The Beatles - The Touring Years ****
The Rutles: All You Need is Cash ***
The Orville: Season One ***
Game of Thrones: Season Seven ****

Movies I Watched 2017

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 ****
Wonder Woman ****
Dunkirk ****
Blade Runner 2049 ***1/2
Justice League ***
Star Wars: The Last Jedi ***1/2

Books I Read in 2016

Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins ***1/2
Truth and Fear by Peter Higgins ***1/2
Radiant State by Peter Higgins ***1/2
The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons ****
The President's Shadow by Brad Meltzer ***
Tambora by Gillen D'Arcy Wood **
Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey ****
Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders by Greg Malone ***1/2
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu ***1/2
Star Trek: New Visions: Volume 3 by John Byrne ***
Sidekick Volume 2 by J. Michael Straczynski, Tom Mandrake and HiFi ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Fearless by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Courageous by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Valiant by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Relentless by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Victorious by Jack Campbell ***1/2
Island on Fire by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe ***
To Boldly Go: Rare Photos From the TOS Soundstage by Gerald Gurian ***
Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley ***
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson ***1/2
Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics -- The Complete Series Volume One 1969-1970 edited by Dean Mullaney ***1/2
Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff ***1/2
Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson *1/2
Meet Me in Atlantis by Mark Adams ***1/2
Ghost Country by Patrick Lee ***1/2
Deep Sky by Patrick Lee ***
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty ***
Windswept by Adam Rakunas ****
Like a Boss by Adam Rakunas ***
Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship With a Remarkable Man by William Shatner ***1/2
The End of All Things by John Scalzi ***1/2
Defenders by Wil McIntosh *1/2
Batman: Earth One: Volume Two by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jon Sibal and Brad Anderson ****
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie ***1/2
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie ***1/2
The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman ****
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman ****
Into the Black by Rowland White ***1/2
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk by David A. Goodman ****
Joyland by Stephen King **1/2
A Universe From Nothing by Lawrence Kraus ***
Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey ***1/2
Hunter's Run by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham **
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King ***1/2
Finders Keepers by Stephen King ***1/2
End of Watch by Stephen King ***1/2
Highest Duty by Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III with Jeffrey Zaslow ***
Unaccountable: Truth and Lies on Parliament Hill by Kevin Page **1/2
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson ***1/2
Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins ***1/2
Dread Empire's Fall: The Praxis by Walter John Williams ***
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin ****
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall ***
Star Trek: New Visions: Volume 4 by John Byrne ***
Revival by Stephen King ****