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New Fiction 2023 – August

“Lamentations of Jeremias” ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

A little tag to the end of Jeremias about how dealing with God sucks, and there’s another one after this.

“The Miracle of the Lily” by Clare Winger Harris (1928)

Water yourself.

“The Conquest of Gola” by Leslie F. Stone (1931)

Why dudes gotta be like that.

“The Black God’s Kiss” by C.L. Moore (1934)

Fuck. Yes.

“Space Episode” by Leslie Perri (1941)

Fellas, just step aside.

“That Only a Mother” by Judith Merril (1948)

You see it coming but still hits.

“In Hiding” by Wilmar H. Shiras (1948)

Okay things get weird and eugenicsy with this atomic supermen bullshit.

“Contagion” by Katherine MacLean (1950)

Again with the genetic supermen business. Maybe that’s the intended effect?

“The Inhabited Men” by Margaret St. Clair (1951)

That’s some good slow-burn space horror.

“Ararat” by Zenna Henderson (1952)

Oh no the superior beings are among us and better than us and will replace us, aka yikes.

“All Cats Are Gray” by Andrew North (1953)

See or not, they’re there.

“Created He Them” by Alice Eleanor Jones (1955)

Rather be dead tbh.

“Mr. Sakrison’s Halt” by Mildred Clingerman (1956)

Get me outta here too.

“All the Colors of the Rainbow” by Leigh Brackett (1957)

God, this was a tough and necessary read.

“Pelt” by Carol Emshwiller (1958)

We’re all a skin to someone.

“Car Pool” by Rosel George Brown (1959)

This style, holy shit. Getting into the stuff I came up with, the style of the gazed navel.

“For Sale, Reasonable” by Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1959)

Don’t hire me.

“Birth of a Gardener” by Doris Pitkin Buck (1961)

You don’t listen.

“The Tunnel Ahead” by Alice Glaser (1961)

I mean, what else to do?

“The New You” by Kit Reed (1962)

They’ll bottle you up soon enough.

“Another Rib” by John Jay Wells & Marion Zimmer Bradley (1963)

Not so shocking now.

“When I Was Miss Dow” by Sonya Dorman (1966)

Be me be you be me.

“Baby, You Were Great” by Kate Wilhelm (1967)

If you can’t connect then you learn to live with it.

“The Barbarian” by Joanna Russ (1968)

Fear of my tower getting breached.

“The Last Flight Of Dr. Ain” by James Tiptree, Jr. (1969)

Twelve monkeys origin story.

“Nine Lives” by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

Too many minds for a collective.

Twilight by David R. George III (2002)

Hefty story but it’s good to go back to the old style of dealing with incomprehensible beings from other dimensions.

Are You Terrified Yet? by R.L. Stine (1998)

Not with this story. If Goosebumps 2000 is about aging out of monsters and supernatural stuff then I don’t care for it.

Tick Tock, You’re Dead! by R.L. Stine (1995)

Time travel shenanigans, my beloved.

“Mighty Max Trapped by Arachnoid” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Spiders don’t scare me.

“Mighty Max Liquidates the Ice Alien” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Refractive weapons.

“Mighty Max Lashes Lizard” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Squirt.

“Mighty Max Traps Rattus” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Traps you.

“Mighty Max Outwits Cyclops” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Poke ‘em.

“Mighty Max Tangles With the Ape King” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Just take over.

“Mighty Max Slays the Doom Dragon” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Does he though?

“Mighty Max Grapples with Battle Cat” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Bring them back.

“Mighty Max Squishes Fly” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Narshty.

“Mighty Max Blows Up Dino Lab” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Science outfits are slipping.

“Mighty Max Stings Scorpion” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Big means not poisonous.

“Mighty Max Crushes the Hand” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Win the duel!

“Mighty Max Escapes from Skull Dungeon” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Smasher, really?

“Mighty Max Conquers the Palace of Poison” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Flees from it, eh.

“Mighty Max Sinks Nautilus” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Time has ravaged your once youthful looks.

“Mighty Max Caught by the Man-Eater” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

The final frontier.

“Mighty Max Bytes Cyberskull” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Stay off the computer.

“Mighty Max Terminates Wolfship 7” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Go away aliens.

“Mighty Max Survives Corpus” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Get aHEAD in DEADvertising.

“Mighty Max Against Robot Invader” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

He invade.

“Mighty Max Zaps Beetlebrow” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Quick work.

“Mighty Max Crushes Talon” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

See into the bone soul.

“Mighty Max Out-Freaks Freako” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Wergh, some kinda phobia.

“Mighty Max Rams Hydron” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

I said let ’em take over.

“Mighty Max Versus Kronosaur” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

They just do what they do.

“Mighty Max Challenges Lava Beast” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

I doubt the veracity of flesh to fire.

“Mighty Max Tangles With Lockjaw” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Well, some last words at least.

“Mighty Max Defeats Vamp Biter” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

In the sun.

“Mighty Max Fights Nuke Ranger” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Not a place of honor.

“Mighty Max Pulverizes Sea Squirm” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Die native fauna.

“Mighty Max Battles Skull Warrior” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Go home, you’re drunk.

“Mighty Max Hammers Ax Man” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

It’s a tool!

“Mighty Max Hounds Werewolf” by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Awoo.

“Mighty Max Neutralises Zomboid” by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Flesh of my flesh.

“Mighty Max Defeats Battle Conqueror” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

I kick you.

“Mighty Max Head to Head With Hydra” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Two in one.

“Mighty Max Melts Lava Beast” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Delicious java.

“Mighty Max Strikes Fang” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Grab the tail.

“Mighty Max Shuts Down Cybot” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Always an off switch.

“Mighty Max Shatters Gargoyle” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Tap tap tap.

“Mighty Max Assaults Skull Master” by Bluebird Toys (1994)

You’d lose but you do it anyway.

“La-Mulana” by KC Green (2023)

Hyuck.

“Mental Health Marge 2 Da Rescue” by ossian (2019)

Listen 2 da TV mom.

Theater Camp dir. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman (2023)

I took a theater class one semester of high school, along with a final play at the end, and that is an intense type of person to hang around with. But I liked that there’s a subset of member who just does, like, building sets and stuff, because it me.

Never Say Never dir. Baoqiang Wang (2023)

So… signing shady contractual obligations with children is okay if you’re giving them something to do?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem dir. Jeff Rowe (2023)

This feels the most like playing with action figures out of any TMNT thing which makes it the most appropriate interpretation.

Meg 2: The Trench dir. Ben Wheatley (2023)

Not enough sea creecher.

Ransomed dir. Kim Seong-hun (2023)

I enjoy the sociopathic killer who could be in a boy band genre from South Korean cinema, and this is right in there.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter dir. André Øvredal (2023)

A fine Saturday afternoon on broacast TV sorta movie.

Jules dir. Marc Turtletaub (2023)

Got some aliens this month, and this one is a charming little story about how aliens can’t save us from our bodies’ inevitable betrayal.

Strays dir. Josh Greenbaum (2023)

A good road trip to set the soul afire.

Blue Beetle dir. Angel Manuel Soto (2023)

Lots of good details, but it still shakes out as a generic superhero movie of our age.

Gran Turismo dir. Neill Blomkamp (2023)

I saw this 1.5 times after the first showing failed halfway through. You know where it’s going and, you know, sports movie gonna sports.

birth/rebirth dir. Laura Moss (2023)

Hey! That’s it, the jam, the good stuff. A high-end version of my beloved anthology horror.

Landscape With Invisible Hand dir. Cory Finley (2023)

The other aliens movie of the month is more in the po-mo style of commentary on our societal ills. I look forward to this feeling quaint in 20 years.

Porco Rosso dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1992)

Damn, TaleSpin really do be like this. But I’ll just take it as more fun anthropomorphized adventures of the air and sea.

The Wind Rises dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2013)

Ghibli’s contemplative looks at Japanese culture and history are some monumental works.

Retribution dir. Nimród Antal (2023)

That’s your final guy? Shoulda been someone else.

To Live and Die in L.A. dir. William Friedkin (1985)

That’s some good 80s vibe I tell you what.

Tales from the Crypt – Seasons 5-6 (1993-1995)

Okay, alright, things are starting to sag a bit after the peak of seasons 3 and 4. Not a show to binge watch. But I still want a super cut of Cryptkeeper intros and outros.

New Fiction 2019 – January

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (1989)

This novel was the sort of dissonant, well-performed journey that seems possible only in a dream, and yet, I think, here we are. We’re in this time of strange, unbelievable events, and sometimes it’s nice to imagine something could magically sweep through and end the madness.

Mary Poppins Returns dir. Rob Marshall (2018)

It’s more of the same, a safe bet by Disney, and I smiled more times than I could count. Blunt is a cheekier Poppins than fans of the original might be used to. I mean, she’s great, she’s your cool aunt, she’s all our cool aunt, so yes I’m glad she returned to shake things up and remind us to sing.

The Bone Collector dir. Phillip Noyce (1999)

At first you think, wow, Denzel, this is some boldass docility, but then you remember that Washington is the sort of actor with a movie star smile, and you realize ah, yes, of course this is perfect, it’s all smile and attitude. The murders are gnarly, the puzzles are weak, but it’s good to add another piece of Washington oeuvre to the lexicon.

American Gangster dir. Ridley Scott (2007)

So hey, why not another? It’s not the strongest turn by either lead actor, but an interesting story and the kind of thing you can’t believe was happening in this, our United States of America. But it did, and it does, and the notion of good cops and bad guys being complicated figures doesn’t quite matter when you see the bodies left in their wake.

Glass dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2019)

It was a bit of extra information, Shyamalan’s epilogue that ran too long. The premise is cool but it’d be better if it was a series of interviews until the end. An HBO series, maybe?

Escape Room dir. Adam Robitel (2019)

I thought, “damn, this is like watching a video game,” and I don’t like simply watching video games. Level one, level two, and so on. And now horror movies anticipate sequels? Ya don’t gotta do that.

Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)

I love The Simpsons, at least those episodes of my generation, and this was a nice take on the sitcom that builds up a town instead of just its core cast. Some jokes, especially those repeated comments about Jones’s beauty, fall flat, and will be among the takes people bring up about the show in the coming decades. Plaza is probably the one I like most for her character’s begrudging acceptance of kindness and sympathy.

The Punisher – Season 2 (2019)

Should I like this guy? I don’t want to, and so I don’t think he’s doing anything noble or worthy of a hero. But then, you don’t have to like someone to appreciate well-executed revenge. This is Revenge City and I’d hang out here again.

New Fiction 2019 – January

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (1989)

This novel was the sort of dissonant, well-performed journey that seems possible only in a dream, and yet, I think, here we are. We’re in this time of strange, unbelievable events, and sometimes it’s nice to imagine something could magically sweep through and end the madness.

Mary Poppins Returns dir. Rob Marshall (2018)

It’s more of the same, a safe bet by Disney, and I smiled more times than I could count. Blunt is a cheekier Poppins than fans of the original might be used to. I mean, she’s great, she’s your cool aunt, she’s all our cool aunt, so yes I’m glad she returned to shake things up and remind us to sing.

The Bone Collector dir. Phillip Noyce (1999)

At first you think, wow, Denzel, this is some boldass docility, but then you remember that Washington is the sort of actor with a movie star smile, and you realize ah, yes, of course this is perfect, it’s all smile and attitude. The murders are gnarly, the puzzles are weak, but it’s good to add another piece of Washington oeuvre to the lexicon.

American Gangster dir. Ridley Scott (2007)

So hey, why not another? It’s not the strongest turn by either lead actor, but an interesting story and the kind of thing you can’t believe was happening in this, our United States of America. But it did, and it does, and the notion of good cops and bad guys being complicated figures doesn’t quite matter when you see the bodies left in their wake.

Glass dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2019)

It was a bit of extra information, Shyamalan’s epilogue that ran too long. The premise is cool but it’d be better if it was a series of interviews until the end. An HBO series, maybe?

Escape Room dir. Adam Robitel (2019)

I thought, “damn, this is like watching a video game,” and I don’t like simply watching video games. Level one, level two, and so on. And now horror movies anticipate sequels? Ya don’t gotta do that.

Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)

I love The Simpsons, at least those episodes of my generation, and this was a nice take on the sitcom that builds up a town instead of just its core cast. Some jokes, especially those repeated comments about Jones’s beauty, fall flat, and will be among the takes people bring up about the show in the coming decades. Plaza is probably the one I like most for her character’s begrudging acceptance of kindness and sympathy.

The Punisher – Season 2 (2019)

Should I like this guy? I don’t want to, and so I don’t think he’s doing anything noble or worthy of a hero. But then, you don’t have to like someone to appreciate well-executed revenge. This is Revenge City and I’d hang out here again.

New Fiction 2018

The year started with Friends after watching too much of it during my December 2017 holiday. It ended with The King’s Speech on New Year’s Eve. I began the year with MoviePass and ended it with AMC Stubs A-List, ensuring I had my fill of the latest movies in theaters. I sold my car some months ago and the journey to the movie theater took on greater meaning in the last couple of months.

A lot of the reading on here came from my American Literature II class in which we studied twentieth century literature. Most, but not all. Some was just random nibbles on the train when I wasn’t consumed with my new-found fascination with podcasts. I include the Selected Shorts podcast to reduce the guilt of engaging in so much non-fiction.

Kwaidan was the most interesting, I think, if I have to pick one. It just feels like a daring creation of its time and place, with each horror story more compelling than the last. My interest in horror from 2017 appears to have legs and I hope to continue seeking out good, interesting horror stories.

I think I’ll do this monthly in 2019. It’ll give me a chance to reflect in short bursts instead of attempting to comprehend a year’s worth of fiction.

Short Stories

  • “In the American Society” by Gish Jen (1987) 
  • “Claire’s
    Lover’s Church by Teri Ruch (1984)
  • "Where
    We Are Now” by Ethan Canin (1986)
  • “The
    Incorrect Hour” by Debra Spark (1986)
  • “Conviction”
    by Tama Janowitz (1986)
  • “Sparks”
    by Susan Minot (1987)
  • “Last
    Night” by Dennis McFarland (1984)
  • “In
    Christ There Is No East or West” by Kent Nussey (1986)
  • “The
    Things That Would Never Be Mine” by Michelle Carter (1987)
  • “Jillie”
    by Ehud Havazelet (1985)
  • “Hands”
    by Gregory Blake Smith (1983)
  • “Cuisinart”
    by Fred Leebron (1986)
  • “The
    River” by Tori Cárdenas (2018)
  • “View
    from Kwaj” by Patricia MacInnes (1985)
  • “Ten
    Cents a Dance” by Joseph Ferrandino (1987)
  • “Three
    Maids’ Children” by Mona Simpson (1987)
  • “Massé”
    by Leigh Allison Wilson (1986)
  • “Flight”
    by Linda Svendsen (1985)
  • “Daisy
    Miller” by Henry James (1894)
  • “The
    Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain (1865)
  • “The
    Soft-hearted Sioux” by Zitkala-Sa (1921)
  • “The
    Sculptor’s Funeral” by Will Cather (1905)
  • “Petrified
    Man” by Eudora Welty (1939)
  • “Sexy”
    by Jhumpa Lahiri (1998)
  • “Lullaby”
    by Leslie Marmon Silko (1981)
  • “The
    Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor (1955)
  • “Medley”
    by Toni Cade Bambara (1974)
  • “Gallatin Canyon” by Thomas McGuane (2003)
  • “Weekend”
    by Ann Beattie (1976)
  • “The
    Balloon” by Donald Barthelme (1966)
  • “The
    Most Girl Part of You” by Amy Hempel (1990)
  • “Sportsman”
    by Amy Hempel (1997)
  • “The
    Dog of the Marriage” by Amy Hempel (2005)

Audio Shorts

  • “Benefactor”
    by Greg Ames (2017)
  • “Dog”
    by Richard Russo (1996)
  • “Tobermory”
    by Saki (1911)
  • “Take
    It from Cats” by Helen Ellis (2014)
  • “Roslyn’s
    Dog” by Arthur Bradford (2002)
  • “The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" by Henry Slesar (1961)
  • "Head Over
    Knees” by Eric Schlich (2016)
  • “Dornicka and the St. Martin’s Day Goose”
    by Helen Oyeyemi (2016)
  • “Watkyn,
    Comma” by Joan Aiken (1990)
  • “The Suitcase”
    by Meron Hadero (2015)
  • “The Bridge” by Daniel O’Malley (2017)
  • “The Great
    Silence” by Ted Chiang (2016)
  • “Breadman” by J. Robert Lennon (2015)
  • “Yancey” by Ann
    Beattie (2015)
  • "The Mappist” by
    Barry Lopez (2000)
  • "The Orange” by Benjamin Rosenbaum (2001)
  • “The Man, The Restaurant, and the Eiffel Tower” by Ben Loory (2017)
  • “I, Gentile” by David Gordon (2014)

Novels

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006)

Plays

  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
    (1956)

Comic Single Issues

  • “Futurama
    Comics #57” by Jesse McCann, John Delaney, Andrew Pepoy, Robert
    Stanley, Karen Bates, Bill Morrison (2011)
  • “Strangers
    in Paradise XXV” by Terry Moore (2018)
  • “Gary: Book One” by Tyrell Cannon (2010)

Graphic Novels/Trades

  • Megahex by Simon
    Hanselmann (2014)
  • Blacksad by Juan
    Díaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido (2010)
  • Bottomless Belly Button
    by Dash Shaw (2008)

Video Games

  • Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
    by Naughty Dog (2017)
  • Star Wars Battlefront II
    by EA DICE (2017)
  • Catherine by Atlus
    (2011)
  • SPACEPLAN by Jake
    Hollands (2017)
  • Mega Man by Capcom
    (1987)
  • Mega Man 3 by
    Capcom (1990)
  • Mega Man 4 by
    Capcom (1991)
  • Super Mario Bros.
    by Nintendo Creative Department (1985)
  • Super Mario Bros. 2
    by Nintendo R&D4 (1988)
  • Spider-Man
    by Insomniac Games (2018)
  • Little Nightmares
    by Tarsier Studios (2017)
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 by
    Rockstar Studios (2018)
  • Minit by JW, Kitty,
    Jukio, and Dom (2018)

Shorts

  • “About
    face” dir. Graham Annable (2017)
  • “Dekalb
    Elementary” dir. Reed Van Dyk (2017)
  • “My
    Nephew Emmett” dir. Kevin Wilson Jr. (2017)
  • “The
    Eleven
    O’Clock”
    dir. Derin Seale (2016)
  • “The
    Silent Child” dir. Chris Overton (2017)
  • “Watu
    Wote” dir. Katja Benrath (2017)
  • “Garden
    Party” dir. Théophile Dufresne, Florian Babikian, Gabriel Grapperon,
    Lucas Navarro, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Claire (2016)
  • “Negative
    Space” dir. Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata (2017)
  • “Revolting
    Rhymes” dir. Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer (2017)
  • “Achoo”
    dir. Elise Carret, Camille Lacroix, Charlotte Perroux, Lucas Boutrot,
    Maoris Creantor, Pierre Hubert (2017)
  • “Lost
    Property Office” dir. Daniel Agdag (2017)
  • “Weeds”
    dir. Kevin Hudson (2017)
  • “Maybellene" dir. Graham
    Annable (2018)
  • "Out
    of Water” dir. Simon Duong-Van-Hyuen, Joël Durand, Thibault Leclercq,
    Valentin Lucas, Andrei Sitari (2018)
  • “Chapped
    Lips” dir. Kelsi Phụng, Fabien Corre (2018)
  • “Breathless”
    dir. Pierre-Marie Adnet, Jean-Luc Dessertaine, Guillaume Pochez, Tristan
    Poulain, Vincent Rouzière, Alessandro Vergonnier (2018)
  • “The
    Tree” dir. Han Yang, Basil Malek (2018)
  • “I’m
    waiting for the night” dir. Arthur Chaumay (2018)
  • “Ostrich
    Politic” dir.  Houhou (2018)
  • “Lorenzo”
    dir. Mike Gabriel (2004)
  • “The Little Matchgirl” dir. Roger Allers (2006)
  • “How to Hook Up Your Home Theater” dir. Kevin
    Deters, Stevie Wermers (2007)

Movies

  • The
    Iceman     dir. Ariel
    Vromen (2013)
  • Bright dir. David
    Ayer (2017)
  • The Whole Nine Yards
    dir. Jonathan Lynn (2000)
  • Trading Places
    dir. John Landis (1983)
  • Hostiles dir. Scott
    Cooper (2017)
  • Black Panther dir. Ryan
    Coogler (2018)
  • Phantom Thread dir. Paul
    Thomas Anderson (2017)
  • Lady Bird dir. Greta
    Gerwig (2017)
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri dir. Martin McDonagh (2017)
  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night dir. Sidney Lumet (1962)
  • Darkest Hour dir. Joe
    Wright (2017)
  • Call Me By Your Name
    dir. Luca Guadagnino (2017)
  • The Post dir. Steven
    Spielberg (2017)
  • Annihilation
    dir. Alex Garland (2018)
  • A Wrinkle in Time
    dir. Ava DuVernay (2018)
  • Beloved dir. Jonathan
    Demme (1998)
  • Pacific Rim: Uprising
    dir. Steven S. DeKnight (2018)
  • A Quiet Place dir. John Krasinski (2018)
  • Game Night
    dir. John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein (2018)
  • Beirut dir. Brad Anderson (2018)
  • The Brothers Grimm
    dir. Terry Gilliam (2005)
  • Isle of Dogs dir. Wes
    Anderson (2018)
  • Rampage dir. Brad
    Peyton (2018)
  • Avengers: Infinity War
    dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2018)
  • Ready Player One dir.
    Steven Spielberg (2018)
  • Kung Fu Yoga dir. Stanley Tong (2017)
  • Blockers dir. Kay
    Cannon (2018)
  • I Feel Pretty dir. Abby
    Kohn, Marc Silverstein (2018)
  • Overboard dir. Rob
    Greenberg (2018)
  • Deadpool 2
    dir. David Leitch (2018)
  • Life of the Party
    dir. Ben Falcone (2018)
  • Solo: A Star Wars Story
    dir. Ron Howard (2018)
  • Upgrade dir. Leigh
    Whannell (2018)
  • Adrift
    dir. Baltasar Kormákur (2018)
  • Hotel Artemis
    dir. Drew Pearce (2018)
  • Hereditary dir. Ari
    Aster (2018)
  • Ocean’s 8 dir. Gary
    Ross (2018)
  • Wanted dir. Timur
    Bekmambetov (2008)
  • Lethal Weapon
    dir. Richard Donner (1987)
  • Lethal Weapon 2
    dir. Richard Donner (1989)
  • Lethal Weapon 3 dir. Richard
    Donner (1992)
  • Lethal Weapon 4 dir. Richard
    Donner (1998)
  • Mamma Mia!
    dir. Phyllida Lloyd (2008)
  • Cargo dir. Ben
    Howling, Yolanda Ramke (2017)
  • Righteous Kill
    dir. Jon Avnet (2008)
  • Tag dir. Jeff
    Tomsic (2018)
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom dir. J. A. Bayona (2018)
  • Incredibles 2
    dir. Brad Bird (2018)
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp
    dir. Peyton Reed (2018)
  • Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    dir. Stefano Sollima (2018)
  • Sorry to Bother You
    dir. Boots Riley (2018)
  • The Equalizer 2
    dir. Antoine Fuqua (2018)
  • Mission: Impossible 2 dir. John Woo (2000)
  • Mission: Impossible III dir. J. J. Abrams (2006)
  • Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol dir. Brad Bird (2011)
  • Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation dir. Christopher McQuarrie (2015)
  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout dir. Christopher McQuarrie (2018)
  • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation dir. Genndy Tartakovsky (2018)
  • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    dir. Ol Parker (2018)
  • The Darkest Minds
    dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelson (2018)
  • The Spy Who Dumped Me
    dir. Susanna Fogel (2018)
  • BlacKkKlansman
    dir. Spike Lee (2018)
  • Alpha dir. Albert
    Hughes (2018)
  • The
    Meg     dir. Jon Turteltaub (2018)
  • Crazy Rich Asians
    dir. Jon M. Chu (2018)
  • Constantine dir. Francis Lawrence (2005)
  • The Predator
    dir. Shane Black (2018)
  • The Nun dir. Corin
    Hardy (2018)
  • The House With a Clock in Its Walls dir. Eli Roth (2018)
  • A Simple Favor
    dir. Paul Feig (2018)
  • White Boy Rick
    dir. Yann Demange (2018)
  • Searching
    dir. Aneesh Chaganty (2018)
  • Hell Fest
    dir. Gregory Plotkin (2018)
  • Bad Times at the El Royale
    dir. Drew Goddard (2018)
  • The Sisters Brothers
    dir. Jacques Audiard (2018)
  • Kwaidan dir. Masaki
    Kobayashi (1965)
  • Halloween
    dir. David Gordon Green (2018)
  • First Man
    dir. Damien Chazelle (2018)
  • House dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (2017)
  • Rumble in the Bronx
    dir. Stanley Tong (1995)
  • Eraser dir. Chuck
    Russell (1996)
  • The Bad Batch
    dir. Ana Lily Amirpour (2016)
  • Wind River dir. Taylor Sheridan (2017)
  • Hold the Dark
    dir. Jeremy Saulnier (2018)
  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald dir. David Yates (2018)
  • The Negotiator dir. F.
    Gary Gray (1998)
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet
    dir. Rich Moore, Phil Johnston (2018)
  • Young Guns
    dir. Christopher Cain (1988)
  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (2018)
  • Gerald’s Game
    dir. Mike Flanagan (2017)
  • Widows dir. Steve
    McQueen (2018)
  • Green Book
    dir. Peter Farrelly (2018)
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter
    Ramsey, Rodney Rothman (2018)
  • Mortal Engines
    dir. Christian Rivers (2018)
  • The Fault In Our Stars
    dir. Josh Boone (2014)
  • Night at the Museum
    dir. Shawn Levy (2006)
  • Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle dir. Andy Serkis (2018)
  • Click dir. Frank
    Coraci (2006)
  • Killer Elite
    dir. Gary McKendry (2011)
  • Bumblebee
    dir. Travis Knight (2018)
  • Aquaman dir. James
    Wan (2018)
  • Maleficent
    dir. Robert Stromberg (2014)
  • The King’s Speech
    dir. Tom Hooper (2010)

TV Episodes

  • The Simpsons
    – “Treehouse of Horror XXIX” (2018)
  • Bob’s Burgers
    – “Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street” (2018)
  • The Simpsons
    – “Little Orphan Millie” (2007)
  • The Simpsons
    – “Homer the Father” (2011)
  • The Simpsons
    – “Bart’s New Friend” (2015)
  • The Good Place – “Everything Is Bonzer!”
    (Part 1) (2018)
  • The Good Place – “Everything Is Bonzer!”
    (Part 2) (2018)

TV Series

  • Friends – Seasons 6-10
    (1999-2004)
  • Stranger Things – Season
    2 (2017)
  • Frasier (1993-2004)
  • Jessica Jones – Season 2
    (2018)
  • The Twilight Zone –
    Seasons 1-3 (1959-1962)
  • Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma – Season 1 (2015)
  • Disenchantment (2018)
  • Luke Cage – Season 2
    (2018)
  • Iron Fist – Season 2
    (2018)
  • The Walking Dead –
    Season 8 (2017-2018)
  • One-Punch Man (2016)
  • Castlevania (2017-2018)
  • Better Call Saul –
    Seasons 2-4 (2016-2018)
  • Daredevil – Season 3
    (2018)
  • The Good Place – Seasons 1-2 (2016-2018)

New Fiction 2018

Previously: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

The year started with Friends after watching too much of it during my December 2017 holiday. It ended with The King’s Speech on New Year’s Eve. I began the year with MoviePass and ended it with AMC Stubs A-List, ensuring I had my fill of the latest movies in theaters. I sold my car some months ago and the journey to the movie theater took on greater meaning in the last couple of months.

A lot of the reading on here came from my American Literature II class in which we studied twentieth century literature. Most, but not all. Some was just random nibbles on the train when I wasn’t consumed with my new-found fascination with podcasts. I include the Selected Shorts podcast to reduce the guilt of engaging in so much non-fiction.

Kwaidan was the most interesting, I think, if I have to pick one. It just feels like a daring creation of its time and place, with each horror story more compelling than the last. My interest in horror from 2017 appears to have legs and I hope to continue seeking out good, interesting horror stories.

I think I’ll do this monthly in 2019. It’ll give me a chance to reflect in short bursts instead of attempting to comprehend a year’s worth of fiction.

Short Stories

  • “In the American Society” by Gish Jen (1987) 
  • “Claire’s
    Lover’s Church by Teri Ruch (1984)
  • "Where
    We Are Now” by Ethan Canin (1986)
  • “The
    Incorrect Hour” by Debra Spark (1986)
  • “Conviction”
    by Tama Janowitz (1986)
  • “Sparks”
    by Susan Minot (1987)
  • “Last
    Night” by Dennis McFarland (1984)
  • “In
    Christ There Is No East or West” by Kent Nussey (1986)
  • “The
    Things That Would Never Be Mine” by Michelle Carter (1987)
  • “Jillie”
    by Ehud Havazelet (1985)
  • “Hands”
    by Gregory Blake Smith (1983)
  • “Cuisinart”
    by Fred Leebron (1986)
  • “The
    River” by Tori Cárdenas (2018)
  • “View
    from Kwaj” by Patricia MacInnes (1985)
  • “Ten
    Cents a Dance” by Joseph Ferrandino (1987)
  • “Three
    Maids’ Children” by Mona Simpson (1987)
  • “Massé”
    by Leigh Allison Wilson (1986)
  • “Flight”
    by Linda Svendsen (1985)
  • “Daisy
    Miller” by Henry James (1894)
  • “The
    Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain (1865)
  • “The
    Soft-hearted Sioux” by Zitkala-Sa (1921)
  • “The
    Sculptor’s Funeral” by Will Cather (1905)
  • “Petrified
    Man” by Eudora Welty (1939)
  • “Sexy”
    by Jhumpa Lahiri (1998)
  • “Lullaby”
    by Leslie Marmon Silko (1981)
  • “The
    Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor (1955)
  • “Medley”
    by Toni Cade Bambara (1974)
  • “Gallatin Canyon” by Thomas McGuane (2003)
  • “Weekend”
    by Ann Beattie (1976)
  • “The
    Balloon” by Donald Barthelme (1966)
  • “The
    Most Girl Part of You” by Amy Hempel (1990)
  • “Sportsman”
    by Amy Hempel (1997)
  • “The
    Dog of the Marriage” by Amy Hempel (2005)

Audio Shorts

  • “Benefactor”
    by Greg Ames (2017)
  • “Dog”
    by Richard Russo (1996)
  • “Tobermory”
    by Saki (1911)
  • “Take
    It from Cats” by Helen Ellis (2014)
  • “Roslyn’s
    Dog” by Arthur Bradford (2002)
  • “The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" by Henry Slesar (1961)
  • "Head Over
    Knees” by Eric Schlich (2016)
  • “Dornicka and the St. Martin’s Day Goose”
    by Helen Oyeyemi (2016)
  • “Watkyn,
    Comma” by Joan Aiken (1990)
  • “The Suitcase”
    by Meron Hadero (2015)
  • “The Bridge” by Daniel O’Malley (2017)
  • “The Great
    Silence” by Ted Chiang (2016)
  • “Breadman” by J. Robert Lennon (2015)
  • “Yancey” by Ann
    Beattie (2015)
  • "The Mappist” by
    Barry Lopez (2000)
  • "The Orange” by Benjamin Rosenbaum (2001)
  • “The Man, The Restaurant, and the Eiffel Tower” by Ben Loory (2017)
  • “I, Gentile” by David Gordon (2014)

Novels

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006)

Plays

  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
    (1956)

Comic Single Issues

  • “Futurama
    Comics #57” by Jesse McCann, John Delaney, Andrew Pepoy, Robert
    Stanley, Karen Bates, Bill Morrison (2011)
  • “Strangers
    in Paradise XXV” by Terry Moore (2018)
  • “Gary: Book One” by Tyrell Cannon (2010)

Graphic Novels/Trades

  • Megahex by Simon
    Hanselmann (2014)
  • Blacksad by Juan
    Díaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido (2010)
  • Bottomless Belly Button
    by Dash Shaw (2008)

Video Games

  • Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
    by Naughty Dog (2017)
  • Star Wars Battlefront II
    by EA DICE (2017)
  • Catherine by Atlus
    (2011)
  • SPACEPLAN by Jake
    Hollands (2017)
  • Monument Valley by Ustwo Games (2014)
  • Mega Man by Capcom
    (1987)
  • Plug & Play by Playables (2015)
  • Mega Man 3 by
    Capcom (1990)
  • Mega Man 4 by
    Capcom (1991)
  • Super Mario Bros.
    by Nintendo Creative Department (1985)
  • Super Mario Bros. 2
    by Nintendo R&D4 (1988)
  • Spider-Man
    by Insomniac Games (2018)
  • Little Nightmares
    by Tarsier Studios (2017)
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 by
    Rockstar Studios (2018)
  • Minit by JW, Kitty,
    Jukio, and Dom (2018)

Shorts

  • “About
    face” dir. Graham Annable (2017)
  • “Dekalb
    Elementary” dir. Reed Van Dyk (2017)
  • “My
    Nephew Emmett” dir. Kevin Wilson Jr. (2017)
  • “The
    Eleven
    O’Clock”
    dir. Derin Seale (2016)
  • “The
    Silent Child” dir. Chris Overton (2017)
  • “Watu
    Wote” dir. Katja Benrath (2017)
  • “Garden
    Party” dir. Théophile Dufresne, Florian Babikian, Gabriel Grapperon,
    Lucas Navarro, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Claire (2016)
  • “Negative
    Space” dir. Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata (2017)
  • “Revolting
    Rhymes” dir. Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer (2017)
  • “Achoo”
    dir. Elise Carret, Camille Lacroix, Charlotte Perroux, Lucas Boutrot,
    Maoris Creantor, Pierre Hubert (2017)
  • “Lost
    Property Office” dir. Daniel Agdag (2017)
  • “Weeds”
    dir. Kevin Hudson (2017)
  • “Maybellene" dir. Graham
    Annable (2018)
  • "Out
    of Water” dir. Simon Duong-Van-Hyuen, Joël Durand, Thibault Leclercq,
    Valentin Lucas, Andrei Sitari (2018)
  • “Chapped
    Lips” dir. Kelsi Phụng, Fabien Corre (2018)
  • “Breathless”
    dir. Pierre-Marie Adnet, Jean-Luc Dessertaine, Guillaume Pochez, Tristan
    Poulain, Vincent Rouzière, Alessandro Vergonnier (2018)
  • “The
    Tree” dir. Han Yang, Basil Malek (2018)
  • “I’m
    waiting for the night” dir. Arthur Chaumay (2018)
  • “Ostrich
    Politic” dir.  Houhou (2018)
  • “Lorenzo”
    dir. Mike Gabriel (2004)
  • “The Little Matchgirl” dir. Roger Allers (2006)
  • “How to Hook Up Your Home Theater” dir. Kevin
    Deters, Stevie Wermers (2007)

Movies

  • The
    Iceman     dir. Ariel
    Vromen (2013)
  • Bright dir. David
    Ayer (2017)
  • The Whole Nine Yards
    dir. Jonathan Lynn (2000)
  • Trading Places
    dir. John Landis (1983)
  • Hostiles dir. Scott
    Cooper (2017)
  • Black Panther dir. Ryan
    Coogler (2018)
  • Phantom Thread dir. Paul
    Thomas Anderson (2017)
  • Lady Bird dir. Greta
    Gerwig (2017)
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri dir. Martin McDonagh (2017)
  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night dir. Sidney Lumet (1962)
  • Darkest Hour dir. Joe
    Wright (2017)
  • Call Me By Your Name
    dir. Luca Guadagnino (2017)
  • The Post dir. Steven
    Spielberg (2017)
  • Annihilation
    dir. Alex Garland (2018)
  • A Wrinkle in Time
    dir. Ava DuVernay (2018)
  • Beloved dir. Jonathan
    Demme (1998)
  • Pacific Rim: Uprising
    dir. Steven S. DeKnight (2018)
  • A Quiet Place dir. John Krasinski (2018)
  • Game Night
    dir. John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein (2018)
  • Beirut dir. Brad Anderson (2018)
  • The Brothers Grimm
    dir. Terry Gilliam (2005)
  • Isle of Dogs dir. Wes
    Anderson (2018)
  • Rampage dir. Brad
    Peyton (2018)
  • Avengers: Infinity War
    dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2018)
  • Ready Player One dir.
    Steven Spielberg (2018)
  • Kung Fu Yoga dir. Stanley Tong (2017)
  • Blockers dir. Kay
    Cannon (2018)
  • I Feel Pretty dir. Abby
    Kohn, Marc Silverstein (2018)
  • Overboard dir. Rob
    Greenberg (2018)
  • Deadpool 2
    dir. David Leitch (2018)
  • Life of the Party
    dir. Ben Falcone (2018)
  • Solo: A Star Wars Story
    dir. Ron Howard (2018)
  • Upgrade dir. Leigh
    Whannell (2018)
  • Adrift
    dir. Baltasar Kormákur (2018)
  • Hotel Artemis
    dir. Drew Pearce (2018)
  • Hereditary dir. Ari
    Aster (2018)
  • Ocean’s 8 dir. Gary
    Ross (2018)
  • Wanted dir. Timur
    Bekmambetov (2008)
  • Lethal Weapon
    dir. Richard Donner (1987)
  • Lethal Weapon 2
    dir. Richard Donner (1989)
  • Lethal Weapon 3 dir. Richard
    Donner (1992)
  • Lethal Weapon 4 dir. Richard
    Donner (1998)
  • Mamma Mia!
    dir. Phyllida Lloyd (2008)
  • Cargo dir. Ben
    Howling, Yolanda Ramke (2017)
  • Righteous Kill
    dir. Jon Avnet (2008)
  • Tag dir. Jeff
    Tomsic (2018)
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom dir. J. A. Bayona (2018)
  • Incredibles 2
    dir. Brad Bird (2018)
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp
    dir. Peyton Reed (2018)
  • Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    dir. Stefano Sollima (2018)
  • Sorry to Bother You
    dir. Boots Riley (2018)
  • The Equalizer 2
    dir. Antoine Fuqua (2018)
  • Mission: Impossible 2 dir. John Woo (2000)
  • Mission: Impossible III dir. J. J. Abrams (2006)
  • Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol dir. Brad Bird (2011)
  • Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation dir. Christopher McQuarrie (2015)
  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout dir. Christopher McQuarrie (2018)
  • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation dir. Genndy Tartakovsky (2018)
  • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    dir. Ol Parker (2018)
  • The Darkest Minds
    dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelson (2018)
  • The Spy Who Dumped Me
    dir. Susanna Fogel (2018)
  • BlacKkKlansman
    dir. Spike Lee (2018)
  • Alpha dir. Albert
    Hughes (2018)
  • The
    Meg     dir. Jon Turteltaub (2018)
  • Crazy Rich Asians
    dir. Jon M. Chu (2018)
  • Constantine dir. Francis Lawrence (2005)
  • The Predator
    dir. Shane Black (2018)
  • The Nun dir. Corin
    Hardy (2018)
  • The House With a Clock in Its Walls dir. Eli Roth (2018)
  • A Simple Favor
    dir. Paul Feig (2018)
  • White Boy Rick
    dir. Yann Demange (2018)
  • Searching
    dir. Aneesh Chaganty (2018)
  • Hell Fest
    dir. Gregory Plotkin (2018)
  • Bad Times at the El Royale
    dir. Drew Goddard (2018)
  • The Sisters Brothers
    dir. Jacques Audiard (2018)
  • Kwaidan dir. Masaki
    Kobayashi (1965)
  • Halloween
    dir. David Gordon Green (2018)
  • First Man
    dir. Damien Chazelle (2018)
  • House dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (2017)
  • Rumble in the Bronx
    dir. Stanley Tong (1995)
  • Eraser dir. Chuck
    Russell (1996)
  • The Bad Batch
    dir. Ana Lily Amirpour (2016)
  • Wind River dir. Taylor Sheridan (2017)
  • Hold the Dark
    dir. Jeremy Saulnier (2018)
  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald dir. David Yates (2018)
  • The Negotiator dir. F.
    Gary Gray (1998)
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet
    dir. Rich Moore, Phil Johnston (2018)
  • Young Guns
    dir. Christopher Cain (1988)
  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (2018)
  • Gerald’s Game
    dir. Mike Flanagan (2017)
  • Widows dir. Steve
    McQueen (2018)
  • Green Book
    dir. Peter Farrelly (2018)
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter
    Ramsey, Rodney Rothman (2018)
  • Mortal Engines
    dir. Christian Rivers (2018)
  • The Fault In Our Stars
    dir. Josh Boone (2014)
  • Night at the Museum
    dir. Shawn Levy (2006)
  • Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle dir. Andy Serkis (2018)
  • Click dir. Frank
    Coraci (2006)
  • Killer Elite
    dir. Gary McKendry (2011)
  • Bumblebee
    dir. Travis Knight (2018)
  • Aquaman dir. James
    Wan (2018)
  • Maleficent
    dir. Robert Stromberg (2014)
  • The King’s Speech
    dir. Tom Hooper (2010)

TV Episodes

  • The Simpsons
    – “Treehouse of Horror XXIX” (2018)
  • Bob’s Burgers
    – “Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street” (2018)
  • The Simpsons
    – “Little Orphan Millie” (2007)
  • The Simpsons
    – “Homer the Father” (2011)
  • The Simpsons
    – “Bart’s New Friend” (2015)
  • The Good Place – “Everything Is Bonzer!”
    (Part 1) (2018)
  • The Good Place – “Everything Is Bonzer!”
    (Part 2) (2018)

TV Series

  • Friends – Seasons 6-10
    (1999-2004)
  • Stranger Things – Season
    2 (2017)
  • Frasier (1993-2004)
  • Jessica Jones – Season 2
    (2018)
  • The Twilight Zone –
    Seasons 1-3 (1959-1962)
  • Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma – Season 1 (2015)
  • Disenchantment (2018)
  • Luke Cage – Season 2
    (2018)
  • Iron Fist – Season 2
    (2018)
  • The Walking Dead –
    Season 8 (2017-2018)
  • One-Punch Man (2016)
  • Castlevania (2017-2018)
  • Better Call Saul –
    Seasons 2-4 (2016-2018)
  • Daredevil – Season 3
    (2018)
  • The Good Place – Seasons 1-2 (2016-2018)

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)

New Fiction 2016

It was another sad year for novels, but short stories and movies boomed.

Previously: 2015, 2014, 2013

Short Stories

  • “The Philosophers” by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (2016)
  • “A Life of Adventure and Delight” by Akhil Sharma (2016)
  • “Choking Victim” by Alexandra Kleeman (2016) 
  • “These Short, Dark Days” by Alice McDermott (2015)
  • “Breaking News: Guatemalan Kitchen Work Cures Ego” by Ally Yancey (2014)
  • “My Curls Have Blown All the Way to China” by Amos Oz (2015)
  • “Save a Horse Ride a Cowgirl” by Ann Beattie (2015)
  • “For the Best” by Ann Beattie (2016)
  • “1=1” by Anne Carson (2016)
  • “Back the Way You Went” by Anne Carson (2016)
  • “A Resolute Man” by Annie Proulx (2016)
  • “The Gospel According to García” by Ariel Dorfman (2015)
  • “Moon Man” by B. A. Brock (2015)
  • “Cold Little Bird” by Ben Marcus (2015)
  • “The Day I Met Buddha” by Benjamin F. Schafer (2014)
  • “Lose the Battle” by Beth Brock (2014)
  • “A Family Game” by Brendan Dubois (2001)
  • “Fable” by Charles Yu (2016)
  • “The Cobalt Blues” by Clark Howard (2001)
  • “Lost Souls” by Clive Barker British (1985)
  • “Anhedonia, Here I Come” by Colin Barrett (2016)
  • “Gender Studies” by Curtis Sittenfeld (2016)
  • “The Edge of the Shoal” by Cynan Jones (2016) 
  • “Jelly and Jack” by Dana Spiotta (2015)
  • “In the Act of Falling” by Danielle McLaughlin (2015)
  • “The Blue Mirror” by David Edgerley Gates (2001)
  • “To the Moon and Back” by Etgar Keret (2016)
  • “Buttony” by Fiona McFarlane (2016)
  • “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor (1955)
  • “The Cookooburrahs and the Goolahgool” by Folktale Australia (1896)
  • “Why Dogs Wag their Tails” by Folktale Filipino (1916)
  • “I Know” by Galadriel Mozee (2014)
  • “Mother’s Day” by George Saunders (2016)
  • “The Striding Place” by Gertrude Atherton (1896)
  • “The goblin and the huckster” by Hans Christian Andersen (1915)
  • “My Purple Scented Novel” by Ian McEwan (2016)
  • “Little Snow-white” by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1884)
  • “The Almond Tree” by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1886)
  • “The Championship of Nowhere” by James Grady (2001)
  • “The Apartment” by Jensen Beach (2015)
  • “Inscrutable” by Joe Gores (2001)
  • “It Is Raining in Bejucal” by John Biguenet (2001)
  • “Three Short Moments in a Long Life” by John L’Heureux (2016)
  • “The Republic of Bad Taste” by Jonathan Franzen (2015)
  • “A Gentleman’s Game” by Jonathan Lethem (2016)
  • “The Abandonment” by Joshua Ferris (2016)
  • “Chicken Hill” by Joy Williams (2015)
  • “Stuff” by Joy Williams (2016)
  • “Honey Bunny” by Julianne Pachico (2015)
  • “The Bog Girl” by Karen Russell (2016)
  • “The Prospectors” by Karen Russell (2015)
  • “The Specialist’s Hat” by Kelly Link (1998)
  • “Deer Season” by Kevin Barry (2016)
  • “God’s Work” by Kevin Canty (2016)
  • “The Midnight Zone” by Lauren Groff (2016)
  • “Who Will Greet You At Home” by Lesley Nneka Arimah (2015)
  • “The Story of a Painter” by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (2016)
  • “Total Solar” by Luke Mogelson (2016)
  • “The Weir” by Mark Haddon (2015)
  • “Two-Bagger” by Michael Connelly (2001)
  • “Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs” by Michael Downs (2001)
  • “Zaabalawi” by Naguib Mahfouz (1963)
  • “A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman (2003)
  • “The Beach Boy” by Otessa Moshfegh (2016)
  • “An Honest Woman” by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016)
  • “The Things” by Peter Watts (2010)
  • “A Short History of Zaka the Zulu” by Petina Gappah (2016)
  • “Fifty-Seven” by Rachel Kushner (2015)
  • “The Three Little Birds” by Rindy Gradford (2015)
  • “How Can I Help?” by Rivka Galchen (2016)
  • “Usl at the Stadium” by Rivka Galchen (2015)
  • “Invasion of the Martians” by Robert Coover (2016)
  • “In the Court of the Dragon” by Robert W. Chambers (1895)
  • “Tiny Man” by Sam Shepard (2016)
  • “The Burglar” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (2016) 
  • “Summa Mathematica” by Sean Dolittle (2001)
  • “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benét (1937)
  • “Sometimes Something Goes Wrong” by Stuart M. Kaminsky (2001)
  • “Are We Not Men?” by T. Coraghessan Boyle (2016)
  • “Patient Zero” by Tananrive Due (2010)
  • “Aspic” by Tatyana Tolstaya (2016)
  • “Dido’s Lament” by Tessa Hadley (2016)
  • “The Fix” by Thomas H. Cook (2001)
  • “The Driver” by Thomas McGuane (2015)
  • “Papaya” by Thomas McGuane (2016)
  • “Bedtimes” by Tim Parks (2015)
  • “Vespa” by Tim Parks (2015)
  • “The Chair Carrier” by Yusuf Idris (1974)
  • “Upside-Down Cake” by Paul Theroux

    (2016

  • “Spiderweb” by Mariana Enriquez

    (2016)

  • “Pardon Edward Snowden” by Joseph O’Neill

    (2016)

  • “Flower Hunters” by Lauren Groff

    (2016)

  • “The King’s Teacup at Rest” by Michael Andreasen

    (2016)

  • “The Hanging of the Schoolmarm” by Robert Coover

    (2016)

  • “Two Men Arrive in a Village” by Zadie Smith (2016)
  • “The Polish Rider” by Ben Lerner (2016)
  • “Seven People Dancing” by Langston Hughes (1961)
  • “Maybe It Was the Distance” by Jonathan Safran Foer (2016)

Novels

  • Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)

Plays

  • Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (429 BC)

Comics

  • “Commercial Success” by Graham Annable (2010)
  • “walk-in" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "articulate conception" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "dead weight" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "misery and his company" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "futile space" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "decency" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "Old Man River" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "fishin’ trip" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "the bomb" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "love monster" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "photo opportunity" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "Sea Life" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "slight aberration" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "by necessity" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "the sound of paste" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "wee man" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as "Hortisculpture” by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • “Amber Sweet” by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • “Go Owls” by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • “Translated, from the Japanese," by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • "Killing and Dying" by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • "Intruders" by Adrian Tomine (2015)

Graphic Novels

  • Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Chaos by Yukito Kishiro (1997)
  • Battle Angel Alita: Fallen Angel by Yukito Kishiro (1998)
  • Battle Angel Alita: Angel’s Ascension by Yukito Kishiro (1998)
  • Hopeless Savages: Break by Jan Van Meter, Meredith McClaren, Christine Norrie (2015)
  • Steve Lichman: Volume I by David Rapoza and Daniel Warren (2016)

Video Games

  • Predator 2 for Sega Master System dev. Teeny Weeny Games (1992)
  • Fallout 4

    dev.

    Bethesda Softworks (2015)

  • Undertale dev. tobyfox (2015)
  • Cibele dev. Star Maid Games (2015)
  • Firewatch dev. Campo Santo (2016)
  • T2: The Arcade Game

    for Sega Master System dev. Probe Development (1993)

  • Castle of Illusion dev. Sega Studios Australia (2013)
  • Alien: Isolation dev. Creative Assembly (2014)
  • Autonomous dev. Double Fine Productions (2012)
  • Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End dev. Naughty Dog (2016)
  • Back to the Future: The Game dev. TellTale Games (2011)
  • SPACEPLAN dev. Jake Hollands (2016)
  • Ben There, Dan That! dev. Size Five Games (2008)
  • Bientot l’ete dev. Tale of Tales (2013)
  • Bioshock Infinite dev. Irrational Games (2013)
  • Bone: Out from Boneville dev. TellTale Games (2005)

  • Bone: The Great Cow Race dev. TellTale Games (2006)

  • Cart Life dev. Richard Hofmeier (2011)
  • The Halloween Google Doodle dev. Google (2016)
  • The Simpsons Tapped Out: Halloween 2016 dev. Electronic Arts (2015)
  • Headlander dev. Double Fine Productions (2016)

Short Films

  • "Vincent” dir. Tim Burton (1982)
  • “Madame Tutli-Putli” dir. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (2007)
  • “World of Tomorrow” dir. Don Hertzfeldt (2015)
  • “Felix in Exile” dir. William Kentridge (1994)
  • “Ku’u Lei Melody: A Mickey Mouse Cartoon” dir. Alonso Ramirez Ramos, Paul Rudish (2016)
  • “Many Moons” dir. Alan Ferguson, The Wondaland Arts Society (2008)
  • “Death in the Dust” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Frozen Hell” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “The Bad Back Bus” dir. Graham Annable (2010)
  • “Transmission at outpost 79” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Old Reliable” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “The Lonely Hunter” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Death Defying” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Morning Glory” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Dreams of Sloshy- number 1” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Dummy” dir. Graham Annable (2016)
  • “No Quarter” dir. Mike Trent (2007)
  • “Defective” dir. Rani Naamani (2004)
  • “One More Beer” dir. Pedro Conti, Alan Camilo (2012)
  • “Lunch” dir. Graham Annable (2016)
  • “Premonitions Following an Evil Deed” dir. David Lynch (1995)

  • “Alien Song” dir. Victor Navone (1999)

  • “Flys!” dir. Eder Cardoso (2009)
  • “Halloween MADNESS” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Closet” dir. Graham Annable (2007)
  • “Intermission” dir. Graham Annable (2016)
  • “Joy to the Weird” dir. Graham Annable (2008)
  • “Reach” dir. Luke Randall (2008)
  • “Help Me” dir. Isaak Fernandez Rodriguez (2005)
  • “Inner Workings” dir. Leo Matsuda (2016)
  • “Piper” dir. Alan Barillaro (2016)

Films

  • Escape from L.A. dir. John Carpenter (1996)
  • ParaNorman dir. Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
  • Galaxy Quest dir. Dean Parisot (1999)
  • It’s Such a Beautiful Day dir. Don Hertzfeldt (2012)
  • The Revenant dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
  • Hail, Caesar! dir. Ethan Cohen, Joel Cohen (2016)
  • Regression dir. Alejandro Amenábar (2015)
  • Room dir. Lenny Abrahamson (2015)
  • The Boy dir. William Brent Bell (2016)
  • Jane Got a Gun dir. Gavin O’Connor (2015)
  • Bridge of Spies dir. Steven Spielberg (2015)
  • The Big Short dir. Adam McKay (2015)
  • Spotlight dir. Tom McCarthy (2015)
  • Brooklyn dir. John Crowley (2015)
  • The Martian dir. Ridley Scott (2015)
  • The Witch dir. Robert Eggers (2015)
  • The Wicker Man dir. Robin Hardy (1973)
  • Terminator Genisys dir. Alan Taylor (2015)
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa (2016)
  • Anomalisa dir. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman (2015)
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane dir. Dan Trachtenburg (2016)
  • Deadpool dir. Tim Miller (2016)
  • Zootopia dir. Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush (2016)
  • Knight of Cups dir. Terrence Malick (2016)
  • Only Yesterday dir. Isao Takahata (1991)
  • Dinotasia dir. David Krentz, Erik Nelson (2012)
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dir. Zack Snyder (2016)
  • Man of Steel dir. Zack Snyder (2013)
  • Eraser dir. Chuck Russell (1996)
  • Collateral Damage dir. Andrew Davis (2002)
  • Dope dir. Rick Famuyiwa (2015)
  • The Babadook dir. Jennifer Kent (2014)
  • Vampire Hunter D dir. Toyo Ashida (1985)
  • Captain America: The First Avenger dir. Joe Johnston (2011)
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2014)
  • Jungle Book dir. Jon Favreau (2016)
  • Thor dir. Kenneth Branagh (2011)
  • Iron Man 3 dir. Shane Black (2013)
  • Thor: The Dark World dir. Alan Taylor (2013)
  • Ant-Man dir. Peyton Reed (2015)
  • Green Room dir. Jeremy Saulnier (2015)
  • Captain America: Civil War dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2016)
  • X-Men: Apocalypse dir. Bryan Singer (2016)
  • The Nice Guys dir. Shane Black (2016)
  • The Neon Demon dir. Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)
  • Twisted dir. Philip Kaufman (2004)
  • Basic Instinct dir. Paul Verhoeven (1992)
  • The Saint dir. Phillip Noyce (1997)
  • Twilight dir. Robert Benton (1998)
  • Star Trek Beyond dir. Justin Lin (2016)
  • Kubo and the Two Strings dir. Travis Knight (2016)
  • Don’t Breathe dir. Fede Alvarez (2016)
  • Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier (2013)
  • The Lobster dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (2015)
  • Captain Fantastic dir. Matt Ross (2016)
  • Hell or High Water dir. David Mackenzie (2016)
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople dir. Taika Waititi (2016)
  • Finding Dory dir. Andrew Stanton (2016)
  • Suicide Squad dir. David Ayer (2016)
  • Magnificent Seven dir. Antoine Fuqua (2016)
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children dir. Tim Burton (2016)
  • What We Do in the Shadows dir. Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi (2014)
  • Sleepaway Camp dir. Robert Hiltzik (1983)
  • The Girl on the Train dir. Tate Taylor (2016)
  • Deepwater Horizon dir. Peter Berg (2016)
  • Desierto dir. Jonás Cuarón (2016)
  • Inferno dir. Ron Howard (2016)
  • Moonlight dir. Barry Jenkins (2016)
  • The Handmaiden dir. Park Chan-wook (2016)
  • Doctor Strange dir. Scott Derrickson (2016)
  • Arrival dir. Denis Villeneuve (2016)
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them dir. David Yates (2016)
  • Nocturnal Animals dir. Tom Ford (2016)
  • The Take dir. James Watkins (2016)
  • Loving dir. Jeff Nichols (2016)
  • Allied dir. Robert Zemeckis (2016)
  • Moana dir. Ron Clements, John Musker (2016)
  • The Edge of Seventeen dir. Kelly Fremon Craig (2016)
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine dir. Gavin Hood (2009)
  • Lion dir. Garth Davis (2016)
  • The Hunger Games dir. Gary Ross (2012)
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire dir.  Francis Lawrence (2013)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 dir.  Francis Lawrence (2014)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 dir.  Francis Lawrence (2015)
  • Trolls dir. Mike Mitchell
    , Walt Dohrn (2016)
  • Sixteen Candles dir. John Hughes (1984)
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story dir. Gareth Edwards (2016)
  • La La Land dir. Damien Chazelle (2016)
  • The Wolverine dir. James Mangold (2013)
  • Manchester by the Sea dir. Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
  • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows dir. Guy Ritchie (2011)
  • Jackie dir. Pablo Larraín (2016)
  • How to Train Your Dragon dir. Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois (2010)

  • Wayne’s World dir. Penelope Spheeris (1992)

  • Fences dir. Denzel Washington (2016)
  • Midnight Special dir. Jeff Nichols (2016)
  • Straight Outta Compton dir. F. Gary Gray (2015)

TV Episodes

  • The Big Bang Theory – "The Bozeman Reaction" (2010)
  • The Big Bang Theory – "The Einstein Approximation" (2010)
  • The Big Bang Theory – "The Wheaton Recurrence" (2010)
  • Sherlock – “The Abominable Bride” (2016)
  • The Simpsons – "Every Man’s Dream" (2015)
  • Bob’s Burgers – “The Hauntening” (2015)
  • Bob’s Burgers – “Teen-a Witch” (2016)

  • The Walking Dead
    – “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “The Well”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “The Cell”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “Service”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead – “Go Getters”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “Swear”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “Sing Me a Song”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “Hearts Still Beating”

    (2016)

TV Series

  • Californication – Season 7 (2014)
  • House of Cards – Seasons 2-4 (2014-2016)
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2014)
  • Better Call Saul – Season 1 (2015)
  • Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975)
  • Daredevil (2015-2016)
  • The Fall (2013-2014)
  • Agents of SHIELD (2013-2016)
  • Agent Carter (2015-2016)
  • Stranger Things (2016)
  • BoJack Horseman – Season 3 (2016)
  • Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)
  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Seasons 3-10 (2007-2015)
  • Archer – Season 6 (2015)
  • Luther (2010-2015)
  • Bones – Seasons 10-11 (2014-2016)
  • Luke Cage (2016)
  • Narcos – Season 2 (2016)
  • Futurama – Seasons 6-7 (2010-2013)

  • Black Mirror (2011-2016)

  • The Walking Dead – Seasons 4-6 (2013-2015)

New Fiction 2016

It was another sad year for novels, but short stories and movies boomed.

Previously: 2015, 2014, 2013

Short Stories

  • “The Philosophers” by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (2016)
  • “A Life of Adventure and Delight” by Akhil Sharma (2016)
  • “Choking Victim” by Alexandra Kleeman (2016) 
  • “These Short, Dark Days” by Alice McDermott (2015)
  • “Breaking News: Guatemalan Kitchen Work Cures Ego” by Ally Yancey (2014)
  • “My Curls Have Blown All the Way to China” by Amos Oz (2015)
  • “Save a Horse Ride a Cowgirl” by Ann Beattie (2015)
  • “For the Best” by Ann Beattie (2016)
  • “1=1” by Anne Carson (2016)
  • “Back the Way You Went” by Anne Carson (2016)
  • “A Resolute Man” by Annie Proulx (2016)
  • “The Gospel According to García” by Ariel Dorfman (2015)
  • “Moon Man” by B. A. Brock (2015)
  • “Cold Little Bird” by Ben Marcus (2015)
  • “The Day I Met Buddha” by Benjamin F. Schafer (2014)
  • “Lose the Battle” by Beth Brock (2014)
  • “A Family Game” by Brendan Dubois (2001)
  • “Fable” by Charles Yu (2016)
  • “The Cobalt Blues” by Clark Howard (2001)
  • “Lost Souls” by Clive Barker British (1985)
  • “Anhedonia, Here I Come” by Colin Barrett (2016)
  • “Gender Studies” by Curtis Sittenfeld (2016)
  • “The Edge of the Shoal” by Cynan Jones (2016) 
  • “Jelly and Jack” by Dana Spiotta (2015)
  • “In the Act of Falling” by Danielle McLaughlin (2015)
  • “The Blue Mirror” by David Edgerley Gates (2001)
  • “To the Moon and Back” by Etgar Keret (2016)
  • “Buttony” by Fiona McFarlane (2016)
  • “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor (1955)
  • “The Cookooburrahs and the Goolahgool” by Folktale Australia (1896)
  • “Why Dogs Wag their Tails” by Folktale Filipino (1916)
  • “I Know” by Galadriel Mozee (2014)
  • “Mother’s Day” by George Saunders (2016)
  • “The Striding Place” by Gertrude Atherton (1896)
  • “The goblin and the huckster” by Hans Christian Andersen (1915)
  • “My Purple Scented Novel” by Ian McEwan (2016)
  • “Little Snow-white” by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1884)
  • “The Almond Tree” by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1886)
  • “The Championship of Nowhere” by James Grady (2001)
  • “The Apartment” by Jensen Beach (2015)
  • “Inscrutable” by Joe Gores (2001)
  • “It Is Raining in Bejucal” by John Biguenet (2001)
  • “Three Short Moments in a Long Life” by John L’Heureux (2016)
  • “The Republic of Bad Taste” by Jonathan Franzen (2015)
  • “A Gentleman’s Game” by Jonathan Lethem (2016)
  • “The Abandonment” by Joshua Ferris (2016)
  • “Chicken Hill” by Joy Williams (2015)
  • “Stuff” by Joy Williams (2016)
  • “Honey Bunny” by Julianne Pachico (2015)
  • “The Bog Girl” by Karen Russell (2016)
  • “The Prospectors” by Karen Russell (2015)
  • “The Specialist’s Hat” by Kelly Link (1998)
  • “Deer Season” by Kevin Barry (2016)
  • “God’s Work” by Kevin Canty (2016)
  • “The Midnight Zone” by Lauren Groff (2016)
  • “Who Will Greet You At Home” by Lesley Nneka Arimah (2015)
  • “The Story of a Painter” by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (2016)
  • “Total Solar” by Luke Mogelson (2016)
  • “The Weir” by Mark Haddon (2015)
  • “Two-Bagger” by Michael Connelly (2001)
  • “Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs” by Michael Downs (2001)
  • “Zaabalawi” by Naguib Mahfouz (1963)
  • “A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman (2003)
  • “The Beach Boy” by Otessa Moshfegh (2016)
  • “An Honest Woman” by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016)
  • “The Things” by Peter Watts (2010)
  • “A Short History of Zaka the Zulu” by Petina Gappah (2016)
  • “Fifty-Seven” by Rachel Kushner (2015)
  • “The Three Little Birds” by Rindy Gradford (2015)
  • “How Can I Help?” by Rivka Galchen (2016)
  • “Usl at the Stadium” by Rivka Galchen (2015)
  • “Invasion of the Martians” by Robert Coover (2016)
  • “In the Court of the Dragon” by Robert W. Chambers (1895)
  • “Tiny Man” by Sam Shepard (2016)
  • “The Burglar” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (2016) 
  • “Summa Mathematica” by Sean Dolittle (2001)
  • “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benét (1937)
  • “Sometimes Something Goes Wrong” by Stuart M. Kaminsky (2001)
  • “Are We Not Men?” by T. Coraghessan Boyle (2016)
  • “Patient Zero” by Tananrive Due (2010)
  • “Aspic” by Tatyana Tolstaya (2016)
  • “Dido’s Lament” by Tessa Hadley (2016)
  • “The Fix” by Thomas H. Cook (2001)
  • “The Driver” by Thomas McGuane (2015)
  • “Papaya” by Thomas McGuane (2016)
  • “Bedtimes” by Tim Parks (2015)
  • “Vespa” by Tim Parks (2015)
  • “The Chair Carrier” by Yusuf Idris (1974)
  • “Upside-Down Cake” by Paul Theroux

    (2016

  • “Spiderweb” by Mariana Enriquez

    (2016)

  • “Pardon Edward Snowden” by Joseph O’Neill

    (2016)

  • “Flower Hunters” by Lauren Groff

    (2016)

  • “The King’s Teacup at Rest” by Michael Andreasen

    (2016)

  • “The Hanging of the Schoolmarm” by Robert Coover

    (2016)

  • “Two Men Arrive in a Village” by Zadie Smith (2016)
  • “The Polish Rider” by Ben Lerner (2016)
  • “Seven People Dancing” by Langston Hughes (1961)
  • “Maybe It Was the Distance” by Jonathan Safran Foer (2016)

Novels

  • Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)

Plays

  • Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (429 BC)

Comics

  • “Commercial Success” by Graham Annable (2010)
  • “walk-in" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "articulate conception" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "dead weight" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "misery and his company" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "futile space" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "decency" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "Old Man River" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "fishin’ trip" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "the bomb" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "love monster" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "photo opportunity" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "Sea Life" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "slight aberration" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "by necessity" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "the sound of paste" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "wee man" by Graham Annable (2010)
  • "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as "Hortisculpture” by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • “Amber Sweet” by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • “Go Owls” by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • “Translated, from the Japanese," by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • "Killing and Dying" by Adrian Tomine (2015)
  • "Intruders" by Adrian Tomine (2015)

Graphic Novels

  • Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Chaos by Yukito Kishiro (1997)
  • Battle Angel Alita: Fallen Angel by Yukito Kishiro (1998)
  • Battle Angel Alita: Angel’s Ascension by Yukito Kishiro (1998)
  • Hopeless Savages: Break by Jan Van Meter, Meredith McClaren, Christine Norrie (2015)
  • Steve Lichman: Volume I by David Rapoza and Daniel Warren (2016)

Video Games

  • Predator 2 for Sega Master System dev. Teeny Weeny Games (1992)
  • Fallout 4

    dev.

    Bethesda Softworks (2015)

  • Undertale dev. tobyfox (2015)
  • Cibele dev. Star Maid Games (2015)
  • Firewatch dev. Campo Santo (2016)
  • T2: The Arcade Game

    for Sega Master System dev. Probe Development (1993)

  • Castle of Illusion dev. Sega Studios Australia (2013)
  • Alien: Isolation dev. Creative Assembly (2014)
  • Autonomous dev. Double Fine Productions (2012)
  • Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End dev. Naughty Dog (2016)
  • Back to the Future: The Game dev. TellTale Games (2011)
  • SPACEPLAN dev. Jake Hollands (2016)
  • Ben There, Dan That! dev. Size Five Games (2008)
  • Bientot l’ete dev. Tale of Tales (2013)
  • Bioshock Infinite dev. Irrational Games (2013)
  • Bone: Out from Boneville dev. TellTale Games (2005)

  • Bone: The Great Cow Race dev. TellTale Games (2006)

  • Cart Life dev. Richard Hofmeier (2011)
  • The Halloween Google Doodle dev. Google (2016)
  • The Simpsons Tapped Out: Halloween 2016 dev. Electronic Arts (2015)
  • Headlander dev. Double Fine Productions (2016)

Short Films

  • "Vincent” dir. Tim Burton (1982)
  • “Madame Tutli-Putli” dir. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (2007)
  • “World of Tomorrow” dir. Don Hertzfeldt (2015)
  • “Felix in Exile” dir. William Kentridge (1994)
  • “Ku’u Lei Melody: A Mickey Mouse Cartoon” dir. Alonso Ramirez Ramos, Paul Rudish (2016)
  • “Many Moons” dir. Alan Ferguson, The Wondaland Arts Society (2008)
  • “Death in the Dust” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Frozen Hell” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “The Bad Back Bus” dir. Graham Annable (2010)
  • “Transmission at outpost 79” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Old Reliable” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “The Lonely Hunter” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Death Defying” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Morning Glory” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Dreams of Sloshy- number 1” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Dummy” dir. Graham Annable (2016)
  • “No Quarter” dir. Mike Trent (2007)
  • “Defective” dir. Rani Naamani (2004)
  • “One More Beer” dir. Pedro Conti, Alan Camilo (2012)
  • “Lunch” dir. Graham Annable (2016)
  • “Premonitions Following an Evil Deed” dir. David Lynch (1995)

  • “Alien Song” dir. Victor Navone (1999)

  • “Flys!” dir. Eder Cardoso (2009)
  • “Halloween MADNESS” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
  • “Closet” dir. Graham Annable (2007)
  • “Intermission” dir. Graham Annable (2016)
  • “Joy to the Weird” dir. Graham Annable (2008)
  • “Reach” dir. Luke Randall (2008)
  • “Help Me” dir. Isaak Fernandez Rodriguez (2005)
  • “Inner Workings” dir. Leo Matsuda (2016)
  • “Piper” dir. Alan Barillaro (2016)

Films

  • Escape from L.A. dir. John Carpenter (1996)
  • ParaNorman dir. Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
  • Galaxy Quest dir. Dean Parisot (1999)
  • It’s Such a Beautiful Day dir. Don Hertzfeldt (2012)
  • The Revenant dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
  • Hail, Caesar! dir. Ethan Cohen, Joel Cohen (2016)
  • Regression dir. Alejandro Amenábar (2015)
  • Room dir. Lenny Abrahamson (2015)
  • The Boy dir. William Brent Bell (2016)
  • Jane Got a Gun dir. Gavin O’Connor (2015)
  • Bridge of Spies dir. Steven Spielberg (2015)
  • The Big Short dir. Adam McKay (2015)
  • Spotlight dir. Tom McCarthy (2015)
  • Brooklyn dir. John Crowley (2015)
  • The Martian dir. Ridley Scott (2015)
  • The Witch dir. Robert Eggers (2015)
  • The Wicker Man dir. Robin Hardy (1973)
  • Terminator Genisys dir. Alan Taylor (2015)
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa (2016)
  • Anomalisa dir. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman (2015)
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane dir. Dan Trachtenburg (2016)
  • Deadpool dir. Tim Miller (2016)
  • Zootopia dir. Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush (2016)
  • Knight of Cups dir. Terrence Malick (2016)
  • Only Yesterday dir. Isao Takahata (1991)
  • Dinotasia dir. David Krentz, Erik Nelson (2012)
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dir. Zack Snyder (2016)
  • Man of Steel dir. Zack Snyder (2013)
  • Eraser dir. Chuck Russell (1996)
  • Collateral Damage dir. Andrew Davis (2002)
  • Dope dir. Rick Famuyiwa (2015)
  • The Babadook dir. Jennifer Kent (2014)
  • Vampire Hunter D dir. Toyo Ashida (1985)
  • Captain America: The First Avenger dir. Joe Johnston (2011)
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2014)
  • Jungle Book dir. Jon Favreau (2016)
  • Thor dir. Kenneth Branagh (2011)
  • Iron Man 3 dir. Shane Black (2013)
  • Thor: The Dark World dir. Alan Taylor (2013)
  • Ant-Man dir. Peyton Reed (2015)
  • Green Room dir. Jeremy Saulnier (2015)
  • Captain America: Civil War dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2016)
  • X-Men: Apocalypse dir. Bryan Singer (2016)
  • The Nice Guys dir. Shane Black (2016)
  • The Neon Demon dir. Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)
  • Twisted dir. Philip Kaufman (2004)
  • Basic Instinct dir. Paul Verhoeven (1992)
  • The Saint dir. Phillip Noyce (1997)
  • Twilight dir. Robert Benton (1998)
  • Star Trek Beyond dir. Justin Lin (2016)
  • Kubo and the Two Strings dir. Travis Knight (2016)
  • Don’t Breathe dir. Fede Alvarez (2016)
  • Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier (2013)
  • The Lobster dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (2015)
  • Captain Fantastic dir. Matt Ross (2016)
  • Hell or High Water dir. David Mackenzie (2016)
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople dir. Taika Waititi (2016)
  • Finding Dory dir. Andrew Stanton (2016)
  • Suicide Squad dir. David Ayer (2016)
  • Magnificent Seven dir. Antoine Fuqua (2016)
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children dir. Tim Burton (2016)
  • The Girl on the Train dir. Tate Taylor (2016)
  • Deepwater Horizon dir. Peter Berg (2016)
  • Desierto dir. Jonás Cuarón (2016)
  • Inferno dir. Ron Howard (2016)
  • Moonlight dir. Barry Jenkins (2016)
  • The Handmaiden dir. Park Chan-wook (2016)
  • Doctor Strange dir. Scott Derrickson (2016)
  • Arrival dir. Denis Villeneuve (2016)
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them dir. David Yates (2016)
  • Nocturnal Animals dir. Tom Ford (2016)
  • The Take dir. James Watkins (2016)
  • Loving dir. Jeff Nichols (2016)
  • Allied dir. Robert Zemeckis (2016)
  • Moana dir. Ron Clements, John Musker (2016)
  • The Edge of Seventeen dir. Kelly Fremon Craig (2016)
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine dir. Gavin Hood (2009)
  • Lion dir. Garth Davis (2016)
  • The Hunger Games dir. Gary Ross (2012)
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire dir.  Francis Lawrence (2013)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 dir.  Francis Lawrence (2014)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 dir.  Francis Lawrence (2015)
  • Trolls dir. Mike Mitchell
    , Walt Dohrn (2016)
  • Sixteen Candles dir. John Hughes (1984)
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story dir. Gareth Edwards (2016)
  • La La Land dir. Damien Chazelle (2016)
  • The Wolverine dir. James Mangold (2013)
  • Manchester by the Sea dir. Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
  • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows dir. Guy Ritchie (2011)
  • Jackie dir. Pablo Larraín (2016)
  • How to Train Your Dragon dir. Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois (2010)

  • Wayne’s World dir. Penelope Spheeris (1992)

  • Fences dir. Denzel Washington (2016)
  • Midnight Special dir. Jeff Nichols (2016)
  • Straight Outta Compton dir. F. Gary Gray (2015)

TV Episodes

  • The Big Bang Theory – "The Bozeman Reaction" (2010)
  • The Big Bang Theory – "The Einstein Approximation" (2010)
  • The Big Bang Theory – "The Wheaton Recurrence" (2010)
  • Sherlock – “The Abominable Bride” (2016)
  • The Simpsons – "Every Man’s Dream" (2015)

  • The Simpsons – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" (2016)

  • Bob’s Burgers – “The Hauntening” (2015)
  • Bob’s Burgers – “Teen-a Witch” (2016)

  • The Walking Dead
    – “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “The Well”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “The Cell”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “Service”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead – “Go Getters”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “Swear”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “Sing Me a Song”

    (2016)

  • The Walking Dead

    – “Hearts Still Beating”

    (2016)

TV Series

  • Californication – Season 7 (2014)
  • House of Cards – Seasons 2-4 (2014-2016)
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2014)
  • Better Call Saul – Season 1 (2015)
  • Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975)
  • Daredevil (2015-2016)
  • The Fall (2013-2014)
  • Agents of SHIELD (2013-2016)
  • Agent Carter (2015-2016)
  • Stranger Things (2016)
  • BoJack Horseman – Season 3 (2016)
  • Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)
  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Seasons 3-10 (2007-2015)
  • Archer – Season 6 (2015)
  • Luther (2010-2015)
  • Bones – Seasons 10-11 (2014-2016)
  • Luke Cage (2016)
  • Narcos – Season 2 (2016)
  • Futurama – Seasons 6-7 (2010-2013)

  • Black Mirror (2011-2016)

  • The Walking Dead – Seasons 4-6 (2013-2015)