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New Fiction 2017

Previously: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

Short Stories 

  • “Most Die Young” by Camille Bordas (2017)
  • “That Baby” by Lindsay Hunter (2010)
  • “On the Street Where You Live” by Yiyun Li (2017)
  • “The Mule Rustlers” by Joe R. Lansdale (2001)
  • “Underground” by David Gilbert (2017)
  • “Constructed Worlds” by Elif Batuman (2017)
  • “Chairman Spaceman” by Thomas Pierce (2017)
  • “Quarantine” by Alix Ohlin (2017)  
  • “Maniac Loose” by Michael Malone (2001)
  • “Counting” by Fred Melton (2001)
  • “You Don’t Know Me” by Annette Meyers (2001)
  • “The High School Sweetheart” by Joyce Carol Oates (2001)
  • “Harlem Nocture” by Robert P. Parker (2001)
  • “Midnight Emissions” by F. X. Toole (2001)
  • “A Lepidopderist’s Tale” by Daniel Waterman (2001)
  • “The Copper Kings” by Scott Wolven (2001)
  • “Everywhere” by Geoff Ryman (1999)
  • “Willing”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People” by Lorrie Moore (1998)
  • “Dance in America”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Community Life”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Agnes of Iowa”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Charades”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Beautiful Grade”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “What You Want to Do Fine”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Real Estate”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “People Like That Are The Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Terrific Mother”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Veterans” by Laurie Alberts (1982)
  • “The Vanity of Small Differences” by Eileen Pollack (1987)
  • “The Big Sway” by Dennis Johnson (1986)
  • “Things to Draw” by Katharine Andres (1984)
  • “I Ate Her Heart” by Bob Shacochis (1986)

Novels

  • Night of the Living Dummy III by R. L. Stine (1996)
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

Plays

  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1953)

Graphic Novels/Trades

  • Sex Criminals Volume 1 by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (2014)

  • Sex Criminals Volume 2 by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (2015)

  • Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson (2016)
  • Blobby Boys by Alex Schubert (2013)
  • Very Casual by Michael DeForge (2013)
  • My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris (2017)
  • The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner (2002)
  • Batman: Earth One Volume 1 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jonathan Sibal, Rob Leigh, Brad Anderson (2012)

  • Batman: Earth One Volume 2

    by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jonathan Sibal, Rob Leigh, Brad Anderson (2015)

  • Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Batman by Brian Azzarello, J. T. Krul, Peter Milligan, Jimmy Palmiotti (2012)

Video Games

  • The Walking Dead: Michonne dev. TellTale Games (2016)
  • The Walking Dead: A New Frontier dev. TellTale Games (2016-2017)
  • The Last Guardian dev. SIE Japan Studio (2016)
  • Octodad: Dadliest Catch dev. Young Horses (2014)
  • Among the Sleep dev. Krillbite Studio (2014)
  • Grow Home dev. Ubisoft Reflections (2015)

  • Grow Up dev. Ubisoft Reflections (2016)

  • DuckTales dev. Capcom (1989)
  • Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers dev. Capcom (1990)
  • TaleSpin dev. Capcom (1991)
  • Darkwing Duck dev. Capcom (1992)
  • DuckTales 2 dev. Capcom (1993)
  • Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers 2

    dev. Capcom (1994)

  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor by Monolith Productions (2014)
  • Mad Max by Avalanche Studios (2015)
  • INSIDE by Playdead (2016)
  • The Beginner’s Guide dev. Everything Unlimited Ltd. (2015)
  • The Adventures of Batman & Robin for Sega CD (1995)
  • Frog Fractions by Twinbeard Studios (2012)
  • Grand Theft Auto IV by Rockstar North (2008)
  • Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City by Rockstar North (2010)
  • Cuphead by StudioMDHR (2017)
  • Hidden Agenda by Supermassive Games (2017)

Short Films

  • “Conventional” dir. Karen Gillan (2015)

  • “Mindenki” dir. Kristóf Deák (2016)

  • “Silent Nights” dir. Aske Bang (2016)

  • “Ennemis Intérieurs” dir. Sélim Azzazi (2016)

  • “Timecode” dir. Juanjo Giménez Peña (2016)

  • “La Femme et le TGV” dir. Timo von Gunten (2016)

  • “Borrowed Time” dir. Andrew Coats, Lou Hamou-Lhadj (2016)

  • “Pearl” dir. Patrick Osborne (2016)

  • “Blind Vaysha” dir. Theodore Ushev (2016)

  • “Piper” dir. Alan Barillaro (2016)

  • “Asteria” dir. Alexandre Arpentinier, Mathieu Blanchys, Lola Grand, Tristan Lamarca, Thomas Lemaille, Jean-Charles Lusseau (2017)
  • “The Head Vanishes” dir. Franck Dion (2016)
  • “Once Upon a Line” dir. Alicja Jasina (2016)
  • “Pear Cider and Cigarettes” dir. Robert Valley (2016)
  • “Things Wong Kar-Wai Taught Me About Love” dir. Alice Dallow (2004)
  • “Nut Guilty” dir. Lloyd French (1936)
  • “June” dir. John Kahrs (2016)
  • “5 Films About Technology” dir. Peter Huang (2017)
  • “A Short Vision” dir. Peter and Joan Foldes (1956)
  • “Lou” dir. Dave Mullins (2017)
  • “Grickle Television (vol.2)” dir. Graham Annable (2017)
  • “Killing Time”
    dir. Graham Annable (2017)
  • “Sunday afternoon”

    dir. Graham Annable (2017)

  • “Blower”

    dir. Graham Annable (2017)

  • “Story of R32” dir. Vladimir Vlasenko (2015)
  • “Flight 851”

    dir. Graham Annable (2017)

  • “Hi Stranger” dir. Kirsten Lepore (2016)
  • “El Chapulín Brujo” dir. Gabriela Badillo (2013)

Films

  • Why Him? dir. John Hamburg (2016)
  • Passengers dir. Morten Tyldum (2016)
  • Snowpiercer dir. Joon-ho Bong (2013)
  • The Men Who Stare at Goats dir. Grant Heslov (2009)
  • Hidden Figures dir. Theodore Melfi (2016)
  • Elle dir. Paul Verhoeven (2016)
  • Silence dir. Martin Scorsese (2016)
  • The Founder dir. John Lee Hancock (2017)
  • Split dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2017)
  • 20th Century Women dir. Mike Mills (2016)
  • Growing Up Smith dir. Frank Lotito (2017)
  • Un Padre No Tan Padre dir. Raúl Martínez (2016)
  • Night of the Comet dir. Thom Eberhardt (1984)
  • Puppet Master dir. David Schmoeller (1989)
  • Magic dir. Richard Attenborough (1978)
  • John Wick dir. Chad Stahelski, David Leitch (2014)
  • John Wick: Chapter 2 dir. Chad Stahelski (2017)
  • Get Out dir. Jordan Peele (2017)
  • Poltergeist dir. Tobe Hooper (1982)
  • Dolls dir. Stuart Gordon (1987)

  • Dead of Night dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden (1945)

  • Logan dir. James Mangold (2017)
  • A United Kingdom dir. Amma Asante (2016)
  • Trilogy of Terror dir. Dan Curtis (1975)
  • Dead Silence dir. James Wan (2007)
  • The Conjuring dir. James Wan (2013)
  • Goosebumps dir.  Rob Letterman (2015)

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1984)

  • Annabelle dir. John R. Leonetti (2014)
  • The Conjuring 2 dir. James Wan (2016)
  • The Great Gabbo dir. James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim (1929)
  • Devil Doll dir. Lindsay Shonteff (1964)
  • Tourist Trap dir. David Schmoeller (1979)
  • Pinocchio’s Revenge dir. Kevin S. Tenney (1996)
  • Black Devil Doll from Hell dir. Chester Novell Turner (1984)
  • Tales from the Hood dir. Rusty Cundieff (1995)
  • Blood Dolls dir. Charles Band (1999)
  • Demonic Toys dir. Peter Manoogian (1992)
  • Doll Graveyard dir. Charles Band (2005)

  • House of Evil dir. Jack Hill, Juan Ibáñez (1968)

  • Kong: Skull Island dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (2017)

  • The Doll Master dir. Jeong Yong-ki (2004)

  • Death Doll dir. William Mims (1989)

  • The Devil’s Gift dir. Kenneth J. Berton (1984)

  • Dolly Dearest dir. Maria Lease (1991)
  • Kiki’s Delivery Service dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1989)
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox dir. Wes Anderson (2009)
  • Sleeping Beauty dir. Clyde Geronimi (1959)
  • Life dir. Daniel Espinosa (2017)
  • Ghost in the Shell dir. Rupert Sanders (2017)
  • Beauty and the Beast dir. Bill Condon (2017)
  • Gifted dir. Marc Webb (2017)
  • Frantz dir. François Ozon (2016)
  • The Fate of the Furious dir. F. Gary Gray (2017)
  • Your Name dir. Makoto Shinkai (2016)
  • Colossal dir. Nacho Vigalondo (2016)
  • The Lost City of Z dir. James Gray (2016)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 dir. James Gunn (2017)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales dir. Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg (2017)
  • Going in Style dir. Zach Braff (2017)
  • The Lovely Bones dir. Peter Jackson (2009)
  • 2 Fast 2 Furious dir. John Singleton (2003)
  • Fast Five dir. Justin Lin (2011)
  • Fast and Furious 6

    dir. Justin Lin (2013)

  • Furious 7

    dir. Justin Lin (2015)

  • The Zookeeper’s Wife dir. Niki Caro (2017)

  • Wonder Woman dir. Patty Jenkins (2017)

  • Alien: Covenant dir. Ridley Scott (2017)
  • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem dir. The Brothers Strause (2007)
  • Arrietty dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2010)
  • It Comes at Night dir. Trey Edward Shults (2017)
  • Cars 3 dir. Brian Fee (2017)
  • Baywatch dir. Seth Gordon (2017)
  • Transformers: The Last Knight dir. Michael Bay (2017)
  • Face/Off dir. John Woo (1997)
  • Ghostbusters dir. Paul Feig (2016)
  • Black Mask dir. Daniel Lee (1996)
  • The Fog dir. Rupert Wainwright (2005)

  • R.I.P.D. dir. Robert Schwentke (2013)

  • Spider-Man: Homecoming dir. Jon Watts (2017)
  • The Mummy dir. Alex Kurtzman (2017)
  • My Cousin Rachel dir. Roger Michell (2017)
  • Baby Driver dir. Edgar Wright (2017)
  • War for the Planet of the Apes dir. Matt Reeves (2017)
  • The Beguiled dir. Sofia Coppola (2017)
  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets dir. Luc Besson (2017)
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me dir. David Lynch (1992)
  • Dunkirk dir. Christopher Nolan (2017)
  • The Diary of a Teenage Girl dir. Marielle Heller (2015)
  • Atomic Blonde dir. David Leitch (2017)
  • The Dark Tower dir. Nikolaj Arcel (2017)
  • The Little Hours dir. Jeff Baena (2017)
  • Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman dir. Curt Geda (2003)
  • Ingrid Goes West dir. Matt Spicer (2017)
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service dir. Matthew Vaughn (2014)
  • Kingsman: The Golden Circle

    dir. Matthew Vaughn (2017)

  • The Dino King dir. Han Sang-Ho (2012)
  • The Crucible dir. Nicholas Hytner (1996)
  • Blade Runner 2049 dir. Denis Villeneuve (2017)
  • Happy Death Day dir. Christopher B. Landon (2017)
  • The Foreigner dir. Martin Campbell (2017)
  • Black Christmas dir. Bob Clark (1974)
  • Thor: Ragnarok dir. Taika Waititi (2017)
  • Zodiac dir. David Fincher (2007)
  • Murder on the Orient Express dir. Kenneth Branagh (2017)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy dir. Tomas Alfredson (2011)
  • The Imitation Game dir. Morten Tyldum (2014)
  • Train to Busan dir. Yeon Sang-ho (2016)
  • Okja dir. Bong Joon-ho (2017)
  • Nightcrawler dir. Dan Gilroy (2014)
  • Death Note dir. Adam Wingard (2017)
  • Inside Man dir. Spike Lee (2006)
  • Coco dir. Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina (2017)
  • First They Killed My Father dir. Angelina Jolie (2017)
  • The Shape of Water dir. Guillermo del Toro (2017)
  • Justice League dir. Zack Snyder (2017)
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi dir. Rian Johnson (2017)
  • Krampus dir. Michael Dougherty (2015)
  • The Croods dir. Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders (2013)
  • Home dir. Tim Johnson (2015)
  • Minions dir. Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda (2015)
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2 dir. Dean DeBlois (2014)

TV Episodes

  • Goosebumps – “Night of the Living Dummy III” (1997)
  • Goosebumps – “Bride of the Living Dummy” (1998)
  • The Twilight Zone – “Miniature” (1963)
  • The Twilight Zone – “The Living Doll” (1963)
  • The Twilight Zone – “Mr. Motivation” (2002)
  • The Twilight Zone – “The Collection” (2003)
  • Tales from the Cryptkeeper – “Sharon Sharalike” (1999)
  • The Twilight Zone – “The Dummy” (1962)
  • The Twilight Zone – “Caesar and Me” (1964)
  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – “Where the Woodbine Twineth” (1965)
  • Tales from the Crypt – “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy” (1990)
  • Tales from the Crypt – “Strung Along” (1992)
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents – “The Glass Eye” (1957)
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents – “And So Died Riabouchinska” (1956)
  • Night Gallery – “Pamela’s Voice”, “Lone Survivor,” and “The Doll” (1971)
  • Night Gallery – “The Doll of Death” (1973)
  • Rick and Morty – “Pilot” (2013)

  • Rick and Morty – “Lawnmower Dog” (2013)

  • Rick and Morty – “Anatomy Park” (2013)

  • The Simpsons – “Simpsorama” (2014)
  • One Punch Man – “The Strongest Man” (2015)
  • The New Batman Adventures – “Cold Comfort” (1997)

  • The New Batman Adventures – “Love is a Croc” (1998)

  • The New Batman Adventures – “Torch Song” (1998)

  • The New Batman Adventures – “Judgment Day” (1999)

  • The Simpsons – “Treehouse of Horror XXVII” (2016)

  • The Simpsons – “Treehouse of Horror XXVIII” (2017)

  • Bob’s Burgers – “The Wolf of Wharf Street” (2017)
  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – “An Endless Wasteland” (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – “God Tongue” (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "That Chef Never Smiles" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Madonna of the Polar Star" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Ice Queen and the Spring Storm" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Meat Invader" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "A Quiet Don, An Eloquent Don" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Concerto of Inspiration and Imagination" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Breading to Adorn the Mountains" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Heavenly Recette" (2015)

TV Series

  • Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009)
  • Sherlock – Series 4 (2017)
  • The Walking Dead – Season 7 (2016-2017)
  • Darkwing Duck (1991-1992)
  • American Gods (2017)
  • Twin Peaks – Season 2 (1990-1991)
  • Iron Fist (2017)
  • The Defenders (2017)
  • Fargo – Season 2 (2015)
  • Narcos – Season 3 (2017)
  • BoJack Horseman – Season 4 (2017)
  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Season 11 (2016)
  • Mindhunter (2017)
  • The Punisher (2017)
  • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Season 4 (2016-2017)

  • American Horror Story – Seasons 1-7 (2011-2017)

New Fiction 2017

Previously: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

Short Stories 

  • “Most Die Young” by Camille Bordas (2017)
  • “That Baby” by Lindsay Hunter (2010)
  • “On the Street Where You Live” by Yiyun Li (2017)
  • “The Mule Rustlers” by Joe R. Lansdale (2001)
  • “Underground” by David Gilbert (2017)
  • “Constructed Worlds” by Elif Batuman (2017)
  • “Chairman Spaceman” by Thomas Pierce (2017)
  • “Quarantine” by Alix Ohlin (2017)  
  • “Maniac Loose” by Michael Malone (2001)
  • “Counting” by Fred Melton (2001)
  • “You Don’t Know Me” by Annette Meyers (2001)
  • “The High School Sweetheart” by Joyce Carol Oates (2001)
  • “Harlem Nocture” by Robert P. Parker (2001)
  • “Midnight Emissions” by F. X. Toole (2001)
  • “A Lepidopderist’s Tale” by Daniel Waterman (2001)
  • “The Copper Kings” by Scott Wolven (2001)
  • “Everywhere” by Geoff Ryman (1999)
  • “Willing”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People” by Lorrie Moore (1998)
  • “Dance in America”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Community Life”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Agnes of Iowa”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Charades”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Beautiful Grade”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “What You Want to Do Fine”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Real Estate”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “People Like That Are The Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Terrific Mother”

    by Lorrie Moore (1998)

  • “Veterans” by Laurie Alberts (1982)
  • “The Vanity of Small Differences” by Eileen Pollack (1987)
  • “The Big Sway” by Dennis Johnson (1986)
  • “Things to Draw” by Katharine Andres (1984)
  • “I Ate Her Heart” by Bob Shacochis (1986)

Novels

  • Night of the Living Dummy III by R. L. Stine (1996)
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

Plays

  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1953)

Graphic Novels/Trades

  • Sex Criminals Volume 1 by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (2014)

  • Sex Criminals Volume 2 by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (2015)

  • Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson (2016)
  • Blobby Boys by Alex Schubert (2013)
  • Very Casual by Michael DeForge (2013)
  • My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris (2017)
  • The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner (2002)
  • Batman: Earth One Volume 1 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jonathan Sibal, Rob Leigh, Brad Anderson (2012)

  • Batman: Earth One Volume 2

    by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jonathan Sibal, Rob Leigh, Brad Anderson (2015)

  • Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Batman by Brian Azzarello, J. T. Krul, Peter Milligan, Jimmy Palmiotti (2012)

Video Games

  • The Walking Dead: Michonne dev. TellTale Games (2016)
  • The Walking Dead: A New Frontier dev. TellTale Games (2016-2017)
  • The Last Guardian dev. SIE Japan Studio (2016)
  • Octodad: Dadliest Catch dev. Young Horses (2014)
  • Among the Sleep dev. Krillbite Studio (2014)
  • Grow Home dev. Ubisoft Reflections (2015)

  • Grow Up dev. Ubisoft Reflections (2016)

  • DuckTales dev. Capcom (1989)
  • Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers dev. Capcom (1990)
  • TaleSpin dev. Capcom (1991)
  • Darkwing Duck dev. Capcom (1992)
  • DuckTales 2 dev. Capcom (1993)
  • Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers 2

    dev. Capcom (1994)

  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor by Monolith Productions (2014)
  • Mad Max by Avalanche Studios (2015)
  • INSIDE by Playdead (2016)
  • The Beginner’s Guide dev. Everything Unlimited Ltd. (2015)
  • The Adventures of Batman & Robin for Sega CD (1995)
  • Frog Fractions by Twinbeard Studios (2012)
  • Grand Theft Auto IV by Rockstar North (2008)
  • Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City by Rockstar North (2010)
  • Cuphead by StudioMDHR (2017)
  • Hidden Agenda by Supermassive Games (2017)

Short Films

  • “Conventional” dir. Karen Gillan (2015)

  • “Mindenki” dir. Kristóf Deák (2016)

  • “Silent Nights” dir. Aske Bang (2016)

  • “Ennemis Intérieurs” dir. Sélim Azzazi (2016)

  • “Timecode” dir. Juanjo Giménez Peña (2016)

  • “La Femme et le TGV” dir. Timo von Gunten (2016)

  • “Borrowed Time” dir. Andrew Coats, Lou Hamou-Lhadj (2016)

  • “Pearl” dir. Patrick Osborne (2016)

  • “Blind Vaysha” dir. Theodore Ushev (2016)

  • “Piper” dir. Alan Barillaro (2016)

  • “Asteria” dir. Alexandre Arpentinier, Mathieu Blanchys, Lola Grand, Tristan Lamarca, Thomas Lemaille, Jean-Charles Lusseau (2017)
  • “The Head Vanishes” dir. Franck Dion (2016)
  • “Once Upon a Line” dir. Alicja Jasina (2016)
  • “Pear Cider and Cigarettes” dir. Robert Valley (2016)
  • “Things Wong Kar-Wai Taught Me About Love” dir. Alice Dallow (2004)
  • “Nut Guilty” dir. Lloyd French (1936)
  • “June” dir. John Kahrs (2016)
  • “5 Films About Technology” dir. Peter Huang (2017)
  • “A Short Vision” dir. Peter and Joan Foldes (1956)
  • “Lou” dir. Dave Mullins (2017)
  • “Grickle Television (vol.2)” dir. Graham Annable (2017)
  • “Killing Time”
    dir. Graham Annable (2017)
  • “Sunday afternoon”

    dir. Graham Annable (2017)

  • “Blower”

    dir. Graham Annable (2017)

  • “Story of R32” dir. Vladimir Vlasenko (2015)
  • “Flight 851”

    dir. Graham Annable (2017)

  • “Hi Stranger” dir. Kirsten Lepore (2016)
  • “El Chapulín Brujo” dir. Gabriela Badillo (2013)

Films

  • Why Him? dir. John Hamburg (2016)
  • Passengers dir. Morten Tyldum (2016)
  • Snowpiercer dir. Joon-ho Bong (2013)
  • The Men Who Stare at Goats dir. Grant Heslov (2009)
  • Hidden Figures dir. Theodore Melfi (2016)
  • Elle dir. Paul Verhoeven (2016)
  • Silence dir. Martin Scorsese (2016)
  • The Founder dir. John Lee Hancock (2017)
  • Split dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2017)
  • 20th Century Women dir. Mike Mills (2016)
  • Growing Up Smith dir. Frank Lotito (2017)
  • Un Padre No Tan Padre dir. Raúl Martínez (2016)
  • Night of the Comet dir. Thom Eberhardt (1984)
  • Puppet Master dir. David Schmoeller (1989)
  • Magic dir. Richard Attenborough (1978)
  • John Wick dir. Chad Stahelski, David Leitch (2014)
  • John Wick: Chapter 2 dir. Chad Stahelski (2017)
  • Get Out dir. Jordan Peele (2017)
  • Poltergeist dir. Tobe Hooper (1982)
  • Dolls dir. Stuart Gordon (1987)

  • Dead of Night dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden (1945)

  • Logan dir. James Mangold (2017)
  • A United Kingdom dir. Amma Asante (2016)
  • Trilogy of Terror dir. Dan Curtis (1975)
  • Dead Silence dir. James Wan (2007)
  • The Conjuring dir. James Wan (2013)
  • Goosebumps dir.  Rob Letterman (2015)

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1984)

  • Annabelle dir. John R. Leonetti (2014)
  • The Conjuring 2 dir. James Wan (2016)
  • The Great Gabbo dir. James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim (1929)
  • Devil Doll dir. Lindsay Shonteff (1964)
  • Tourist Trap dir. David Schmoeller (1979)
  • Pinocchio’s Revenge dir. Kevin S. Tenney (1996)
  • Black Devil Doll from Hell dir. Chester Novell Turner (1984)
  • Tales from the Hood dir. Rusty Cundieff (1995)
  • Blood Dolls dir. Charles Band (1999)
  • Demonic Toys dir. Peter Manoogian (1992)
  • Doll Graveyard dir. Charles Band (2005)

  • House of Evil dir. Jack Hill, Juan Ibáñez (1968)

  • Kong: Skull Island dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (2017)

  • The Doll Master dir. Jeong Yong-ki (2004)

  • Death Doll dir. William Mims (1989)

  • The Devil’s Gift dir. Kenneth J. Berton (1984)

  • Dolly Dearest dir. Maria Lease (1991)
  • Kiki’s Delivery Service dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1989)
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox dir. Wes Anderson (2009)
  • Sleeping Beauty dir. Clyde Geronimi (1959)
  • Life dir. Daniel Espinosa (2017)
  • Ghost in the Shell dir. Rupert Sanders (2017)
  • Beauty and the Beast dir. Bill Condon (2017)
  • Gifted dir. Marc Webb (2017)
  • Frantz dir. François Ozon (2016)
  • The Fate of the Furious dir. F. Gary Gray (2017)
  • Your Name dir. Makoto Shinkai (2016)
  • Colossal dir. Nacho Vigalondo (2016)
  • The Lost City of Z dir. James Gray (2016)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 dir. James Gunn (2017)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales dir. Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg (2017)
  • Going in Style dir. Zach Braff (2017)
  • The Lovely Bones dir. Peter Jackson (2009)
  • 2 Fast 2 Furious dir. John Singleton (2003)
  • Fast Five dir. Justin Lin (2011)
  • Fast and Furious 6

    dir. Justin Lin (2013)

  • Furious 7

    dir. Justin Lin (2015)

  • The Zookeeper’s Wife dir. Niki Caro (2017)

  • Wonder Woman dir. Patty Jenkins (2017)

  • Alien: Covenant dir. Ridley Scott (2017)
  • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem dir. The Brothers Strause (2007)
  • Arrietty dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2010)
  • It Comes at Night dir. Trey Edward Shults (2017)
  • Cars 3 dir. Brian Fee (2017)
  • Baywatch dir. Seth Gordon (2017)
  • Transformers: The Last Knight dir. Michael Bay (2017)
  • Face/Off dir. John Woo (1997)
  • Ghostbusters dir. Paul Feig (2016)
  • Black Mask dir. Daniel Lee (1996)
  • The Fog dir. Rupert Wainwright (2005)

  • R.I.P.D. dir. Robert Schwentke (2013)

  • Spider-Man: Homecoming dir. Jon Watts (2017)
  • The Mummy dir. Alex Kurtzman (2017)
  • My Cousin Rachel dir. Roger Michell (2017)
  • Baby Driver dir. Edgar Wright (2017)
  • War for the Planet of the Apes dir. Matt Reeves (2017)
  • The Beguiled dir. Sofia Coppola (2017)
  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets dir. Luc Besson (2017)
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me dir. David Lynch (1992)
  • Dunkirk dir. Christopher Nolan (2017)
  • The Diary of a Teenage Girl dir. Marielle Heller (2015)
  • Atomic Blonde dir. David Leitch (2017)
  • The Dark Tower dir. Nikolaj Arcel (2017)
  • The Little Hours dir. Jeff Baena (2017)
  • Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman dir. Curt Geda (2003)
  • Ingrid Goes West dir. Matt Spicer (2017)
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service dir. Matthew Vaughn (2014)
  • Kingsman: The Golden Circle

    dir. Matthew Vaughn (2017)

  • The Dino King dir. Han Sang-Ho (2012)
  • The Crucible dir. Nicholas Hytner (1996)
  • Blade Runner 2049 dir. Denis Villeneuve (2017)
  • Happy Death Day dir. Christopher B. Landon (2017)
  • The Foreigner dir. Martin Campbell (2017)
  • Black Christmas dir. Bob Clark (1974)
  • Thor: Ragnarok dir. Taika Waititi (2017)
  • Zodiac dir. David Fincher (2007)
  • Murder on the Orient Express dir. Kenneth Branagh (2017)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy dir. Tomas Alfredson (2011)
  • The Imitation Game dir. Morten Tyldum (2014)
  • Train to Busan dir. Yeon Sang-ho (2016)
  • Okja dir. Bong Joon-ho (2017)
  • Nightcrawler dir. Dan Gilroy (2014)
  • Death Note dir. Adam Wingard (2017)
  • Inside Man dir. Spike Lee (2006)
  • Coco dir. Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina (2017)
  • First They Killed My Father dir. Angelina Jolie (2017)
  • The Shape of Water dir. Guillermo del Toro (2017)
  • Justice League dir. Zack Snyder (2017)
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi dir. Rian Johnson (2017)
  • Krampus dir. Michael Dougherty (2015)
  • The Croods dir. Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders (2013)
  • Home dir. Tim Johnson (2015)
  • Minions dir. Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda (2015)
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2 dir. Dean DeBlois (2014)

TV Episodes

  • Goosebumps – “Night of the Living Dummy III” (1997)
  • Goosebumps – “Bride of the Living Dummy” (1998)
  • The Twilight Zone – “Miniature” (1963)
  • The Twilight Zone – “The Living Doll” (1963)
  • The Twilight Zone – “Mr. Motivation” (2002)
  • The Twilight Zone – “The Collection” (2003)
  • Tales from the Cryptkeeper – “Sharon Sharalike” (1999)
  • The Twilight Zone – “The Dummy” (1962)
  • The Twilight Zone – “Caesar and Me” (1964)
  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – “Where the Woodbine Twineth” (1965)
  • Tales from the Crypt – “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy” (1990)
  • Tales from the Crypt – “Strung Along” (1992)
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents – “The Glass Eye” (1957)
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents – “And So Died Riabouchinska” (1956)
  • Night Gallery – “Pamela’s Voice”, “Lone Survivor,” and “The Doll” (1971)
  • Night Gallery – “The Doll of Death” (1973)
  • Rick and Morty – “Pilot” (2013)

  • Rick and Morty – “Lawnmower Dog” (2013)

  • Rick and Morty – “Anatomy Park” (2013)

  • The Simpsons – “Simpsorama” (2014)
  • One Punch Man – “The Strongest Man” (2015)
  • The New Batman Adventures – “Cold Comfort” (1997)

  • The New Batman Adventures – “Love is a Croc” (1998)

  • The New Batman Adventures – “Torch Song” (1998)

  • The New Batman Adventures – “Judgment Day” (1999)

  • The Simpsons – “Treehouse of Horror XXVII” (2016)

  • The Simpsons – “Treehouse of Horror XXVIII” (2017)

  • Bob’s Burgers – “The Wolf of Wharf Street” (2017)
  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – “An Endless Wasteland” (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – “God Tongue” (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "That Chef Never Smiles" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Madonna of the Polar Star" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Ice Queen and the Spring Storm" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Meat Invader" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "A Quiet Don, An Eloquent Don" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Concerto of Inspiration and Imagination" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Breading to Adorn the Mountains" (2015)

  • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma  – "The Heavenly Recette" (2015)

TV Series

  • Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009)
  • Sherlock – Series 4 (2017)
  • The Walking Dead – Season 7 (2016-2017)
  • Darkwing Duck (1991-1992)
  • American Gods (2017)
  • Twin Peaks – Season 2 (1990-1991)
  • Iron Fist (2017)
  • The Defenders (2017)
  • Fargo – Season 2 (2015)
  • Narcos – Season 3 (2017)
  • BoJack Horseman – Season 4 (2017)
  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Season 11 (2016)
  • Mindhunter (2017)
  • The Punisher (2017)
  • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Season 4 (2016-2017)

  • American Horror Story – Seasons 1-7 (2011-2017)

It was a good year for living dummies

Okay! I’m gonna write about this past year right quick.

My family grew by one with the birth of my nephew, Henry. He’s still kind of a shriveled little guy but his cheeks are huge. Extremely pinchable, the poor kid. My niece Abby is in the terrible twos? She’s several handfuls. And the other girls, now eleven and fifteen, both need more personal space. I hope my brother moves to a new, larger place so the kids have more room to run around. I’m glad my parents and his girlfriend’s mom are around to help, but they’re older and tired and I think deserve to chill a bit at this stage of their lives. I’m not sure what the best solution is but I hope it goes well for my brother and his suddenly big family. My other brothers are doing well. I said I’d never move back to L.A. but the secret is I would, yes, for my family. I still have the strong sense that I’ll get real lonely when I hit 40 and want to spend more time with them in L.A.

Oh man, did you pay attention to politics and the world in general? I did for the first time in my life and it made for a real pissed off year for me. Not just at the shitty policies that conservatives shoved through, because I lived through the Bush era with full memory of it, but at the gross audacity and ineptitude of the president and his shithead brigade. Like, I hate that I fell into it, but I wish the absolute worst upon him and his family. I want them to suffer so they know what it’s like. I made calls upon calls and donated to liberal candidates who had the right idea. I hope 2018 is a reckoning.

I had some grand plan to keep up with writing fiction, but I just noticed that this past September’s short was the first I’d written in two years. And I don’t know what to do. I still have these memories of people digging the work and saying I should do more with it, so it’s like letting down people who believed in me. I’m still very much into comics and would love to get confident enough in my drawing to create some short comics. Maybe I’ll sign up for more classes this coming year. Something to force some work outta me.

Kate Beaton, my comics inspiration for years, is helping her sister fight cancer. Check it out if you’re a fan.

Social media, Tumblr included I reckon, allowed me to keep up with lots of people. It gets weirder for me every year to be a passive audience to someone’s life and thoughts, but I’m still glad to know how people are doing in some small way.

It was a good year in ways that relate to money which is a bummer because money dictates so much of what we do. I pushed to get a job as release manager because I’d been a QA lead for years and years, and because I’d been a producer already and “producer” was kind of a loaded job title for me. So I made up a release manager job and we made it official! And I didn’t get a raise immediately, but eventually, and my sigh of relief filled the room. I mean, Jesus, all I’m gonna do with the extra money is give it to credit card companies, but it’s enough that I can see a future in which I’m not in debt. And all of this is because I work with supportive people who fight to get as much as they can for everyone who works at my company. I hope 2018 continues to be as great as this last year for everyone I work with. They deserve it.

Also work-related: I got to pitch a video game prototype, and it was something totally outside of my realm of comfort. I mean, a physics-based puzzle game in which the player is a living ventriloquist dummy? It’s like the stories I remember the most. It feels like, “what the hell was I on when I came up with that?” But it was great to develop the idea, do the research, write the documentation, collect the reference material, talk to people about it, and then get runner-up during the selection process. The fact that it got that close was kind of terrifying because I got that close to actually having to do the thing. And it was cool, man, real cool. I’ll gladly pitch again if I get the chance. I’ve already bubbled some ideas to the top.

My personal life was… stagnant. I didn’t lose any weight this year, which is something I want every year of my life. My brother Cris gave me a paleo cookbook for slowcookers, since I don’t have a kitchen, and it’s perfect timing. No dairy, no processed grains or sugar, limited red meat. It feels right and I think 2018 will see me get back in shape. The question is will I maintain? And I gotta say, being 35 and fat is not fun at all. I need to keep it off for good or I’m facing a rough middle age. I took a literature class and it was great as always, so I’ll do it again starting in January. I’m satisfied, though not happy, with my level of socialization. (That sounds clinical.) I like being alone but I still get the occasional pang of loneliness. I can only shrug my shoulders because what’re ya gonna do? What am I gonna do.

I’m excited to post my year of new fiction in a few days. My brief assessment is not enough short stories, better variety of movies, and not enough video games. I’m also excited to see what 2018 brings. Fiction is just great and I often learn more about being human from experiencing fiction than non-fiction.

I, too, wish Fresh Pizza met Raven Goth.

I hope 2018 brings you something good.

It was a good year for living dummies

Okay! I’m gonna write about this past year right quick.

My family grew by one with the birth of my nephew, Henry. He’s still kind of a shriveled little guy but his cheeks are huge. Extremely pinchable, the poor kid. My niece Abby is in the terrible twos? She’s several handfuls. And the other girls, now eleven and fifteen, both need more personal space. I hope my brother moves to a new, larger place so the kids have more room to run around. I’m glad my parents and his girlfriend’s mom are around to help, but they’re older and tired and I think deserve to chill a bit at this stage of their lives. I’m not sure what the best solution is but I hope it goes well for my brother and his suddenly big family. My other brothers are doing well. I said I’d never move back to L.A. but the secret is I would, yes, for my family. I still have the strong sense that I’ll get real lonely when I hit 40 and want to spend more time with them in L.A.

Oh man, did you pay attention to politics and the world in general? I did for the first time in my life and it made for a real pissed off year for me. Not just at the shitty policies that conservatives shoved through, because I lived through the Bush era with full memory of it, but at the gross audacity and ineptitude of the president and his shithead brigade. Like, I hate that I fell into it, but I wish the absolute worst upon him and his family. I want them to suffer so they know what it’s like. I made calls upon calls and donated to liberal candidates who had the right idea. I hope 2018 is a reckoning.

I had some grand plan to keep up with writing fiction, but I just noticed that this past September’s short was the first I’d written in two years. And I don’t know what to do. I still have these memories of people digging the work and saying I should do more with it, so it’s like letting down people who believed in me. I’m still very much into comics and would love to get confident enough in my drawing to create some short comics. Maybe I’ll sign up for more classes this coming year. Something to force some work outta me.

Kate Beaton, my comics inspiration for years, is helping her sister fight cancer. Check it out if you’re a fan.

Social media, Tumblr included I reckon, allowed me to keep up with lots of people. It gets weirder for me every year to be a passive audience to someone’s life and thoughts, but I’m still glad to know how people are doing in some small way.

It was a good year in ways that relate to money which is a bummer because money dictates so much of what we do. I pushed to get a job as release manager because I’d been a QA lead for years and years, and because I’d been a producer already and “producer” was kind of a loaded job title for me. So I made up a release manager job and we made it official! And I didn’t get a raise immediately, but eventually, and my sigh of relief filled the room. I mean, Jesus, all I’m gonna do with the extra money is give it to credit card companies, but it’s enough that I can see a future in which I’m not in debt. And all of this is because I work with supportive people who fight to get as much as they can for everyone who works at my company. I hope 2018 continues to be as great as this last year for everyone I work with. They deserve it.

Also work-related: I got to pitch a video game prototype, and it was something totally outside of my realm of comfort. I mean, a physics-based puzzle game in which the player is a living ventriloquist dummy? It’s like the stories I remember the most. It feels like, “what the hell was I on when I came up with that?” But it was great to develop the idea, do the research, write the documentation, collect the reference material, talk to people about it, and then get runner-up during the selection process. The fact that it got that close was kind of terrifying because I got that close to actually having to do the thing. And it was cool, man, real cool. I’ll gladly pitch again if I get the chance. I’ve already bubbled some ideas to the top.

My personal life was… stagnant. I didn’t lose any weight this year, which is something I want every year of my life. My brother Cris gave me a paleo cookbook for slowcookers, since I don’t have a kitchen, and it’s perfect timing. No dairy, no processed grains or sugar, limited red meat. It feels right and I think 2018 will see me get back in shape. The question is will I maintain? And I gotta say, being 35 and fat is not fun at all. I need to keep it off for good or I’m facing a rough middle age. I took a literature class and it was great as always, so I’ll do it again starting in January. I’m satisfied, though not happy, with my level of socialization. (That sounds clinical.) I like being alone but I still get the occasional pang of loneliness. I can only shrug my shoulders because what’re ya gonna do? What am I gonna do.

I’m excited to post my year of new fiction in a few days. My brief assessment is not enough short stories, better variety of movies, and not enough video games. I’m also excited to see what 2018 brings. Fiction is just great and I often learn more about being human from experiencing fiction than non-fiction.

I, too, wish Fresh Pizza met Raven Goth.

I hope 2018 brings you something good.