Media Log /2019
Key: (B) = book | (F) = film | (SF) = short film | (T) = television series | (P) = podcast series | (S) = screenplay | (C) = comic book/graphic novel | (TH) = theater performance | (M) = musical performance | [R] = reread/rewatch/relisten
- January
- 1
- Prohibition (T) [R]
- 2
- Shoplifters (F)
- 3
- Support the Girls (F)
- 6
- Veronica Mars, Season 3 (T)
- The General (F)
- Superstore, Season 1 (T)
- 7
- Veronica Mars (F)
- 8
- Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, Haruki Murakami (B)
- 10
- Superstore, Season 2 (T)
- 12
- Brave (F)
- 13
- Superstore, Season 3 (T)
- Roma (F)
- 14
- Outrage (F)
- 15
- Fyre Fraud (F)
- 16
- All the President's Men (F)
- 17
- California Typewriter (F)
- Jane Eyre (2011) (F)
- 18
- Versailles, Season 2 (T)
- FYRE: The Greatest Festival that Never Happened (F)
- 19
- Slow Burn, Season 1 (P)
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (F)
- Ed Wood (F) [R]
- 20
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (F)
- Glen or Glenda (F)
- The Bigamist (F)
- 21
- Cold War (F)
- Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood, Karina Longworth (B)
- 22
- David Lynch: The Art Life (F)
- 23
- Slow Burn, Season 2 (P)
- 24
- The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers (B)
- The Twilight Zone, Season 3 (T)
- The 39 Steps (F)
- 25
- The Good Place, Season 3 (T)
- 26
- Shirkers (F)
- We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (B)
- 27
- Design for Living (F)
- Intolerance (F)
- A Simple Favor (F)
- 29
- Jaws, Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley (S)
- 30
- You Must Remember This: Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon (P)
- February
- 2
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (F)
- 3
- Russian Doll, Season 1 (T)
- Incredibles 2 (F) [R]
- 4
- Miss Hokusai (F)
- The Princess and the Frog (F) [R]
- 8
- The Limey (F)
- All That Jazz (F)
- Mulholland Falls (F)
- 9
- The Naked Kiss (F)
- 10
- Contempt (F)
- Velvet Buzzsaw (F)
- 13
- Ed Wood, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (S)
- 16
- Lorena, Season 1 (T)
- 17
- Hail, Caesar!, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (S)
- The Breaker Uppers (F)
- Underworld U.S.A. (F)
- 18
- Ant-Man and the Wasp (F)
- 19
- American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee, Karen Abbott (B)
- Woman on the Run (F)
- 20
- Homicidal (F)
- 21
- Abducted in Plain Sight (F)
- The City of the Dead (F)
- 22
- Carnival of Souls (F)
- 23
- A Bucket of Blood (F)
- House of Usher (F) [R]
- Miller's Crossing (F) [R]
- 26
- Ruben Brandt, Collector (F)
- 27
- Marlena, Julie Buntin (B)
- 28
- House in Marsh Road (F)
- March
- 2
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (B)
- Please Murder Me (F)
- The Oblong Box (F)
- 3
- The Wife, Alafair Burke (B)
- 4
- The Hitch-Hiker (F)
- 8
- Captain Marvel (F)
- 9
- Brick, Rian Johnson (S)
- Logan's Run (F)
- The Silence of the Lambs (F) [R]
- We Need to Talk About Kevin (F)
- 10
- Phoenix (F)
- 11
- Looper, Rian Johnson (S)
- Leaving Neverland (F)
- 13
- Transit (F)
- 15
- Blood and Black Lace (F)
- Documentary Now!, Season 1 (T)
- 16
- Tea with the Dames (F)
- 20
- Documentary Now!, Season 2 (T)
- The Twilight Zone, Season 5 (T)
- 21
- Black Mirror, Season 4 (T)
- 25
- Barton Fink, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (S)
- Black Mirror, Season 1 (T)
- 30
- The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson (S)
- The Matrix (F) [R]
- 30
- Roxie Hart (F)
- April
- 2
- Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama, David Mamet (B)
- All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago, Ethan Mordden (B)
- The Ghoul (F)
- 6
- Legally Blonde (F)
- 7
- The Fifth Element (F)
- 8
- How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, Roger Corman (B)
- The Little Shop of Horrors (F)
- 9
- Nightfall (F)
- My Name Is Julia Ross (F)
- 12
- Down a Dark Hall (F)
- House of Ghosts (F)
- Lady J (F)
- So Dark the Night (F)
- 13
- The Hudsucker Proxy, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen and Sam Raimi (S)
- 14
- Grayson, Vol. 1: Agents of Spyral (C)
- Art and Craft (F)
- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (F)
- Forty Guns (F)
- 15
- The Dropout, Season 1 (P)
- 16
- The Magnificent Seven (F)
- 18
- Ghost Talkers, Mary Robinette Kowal (B)
- 19
- The Big Heat (F) [R]
- Human Desire (F)
- 23
- Bloody Mama (F)
- Mulan (F) [R]
- The Jungle Book (1967) (F) [R]
- 25
- Strangers on a Train (F) [R]
- Drive a Crooked Road (F)
- 28
- Black Mirror, Season 2 (T)
- Black Mirror, Season 3 (T)
- ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (F)
- Pushover (F)
- May
- 1
- Barry, Season 1 (T)
- 2
- Her Smell (F)
- The Burglar (F)
- 4
- The Lineup (F)
- Murder by Contract (F)
- 5
- Experiment in Terror (F)
- Detour (F) [R]
- Grey Gardens (F)
- 6
- The Act, Season 1 (T)
- I Am the Night, Season 1 (T)
- 7
- What Price Hollywood? (F)
- Dinner at Eight (F)
- 9
- Gaslight (F)
- 10
- Hamlet (TH)
- 11
- Kingdom, Season 1 (T)
- Train to Busan (F)
- 12
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu (F)
- 14
- The Wailing (F)
- 16
- Alien, Walter Hill and David Giler (S)
- The Deuce, Season 1 (T)
- The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (B)
- 17
- Clue (F) [R]
- 18
- Alien (F) [R]
- 19
- Fleabag, Season 2 (T)
- 20
- Barry, Season 2 (T)
- Braid (F)
- 22
- Zeroville, Steve Erickson (B)
- Blinded by the Light (F)
- 23
- Shutter (2004) (F)
- 24
- Dressed to Kill (F)
- Bathtubs Over Broadway (F)
- 25
- Ocean's 8 (F) [R]
- Bend It Like Beckham (F) [R]
- 26
- The Perfection (F)
- Blood Simple (F) [R]
- 27
- Mickey One (F)
- 28
- Killing Eve, Season 1 (T)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (F)
- June
- 6
- Good Omens, Season 1 (T)
- Six Feet Under, Season 1 (T)
- 7
- Something Wild (F)
- Wine Country (F)
- This is Spinal Tap (F) [R]
- Documentary Now!, Season 3 (T)
- 8
- A Fistful of Dollars (F)
- 9
- Under the Silver Lake (F)
- 10
- Black Mirror, Season 5 (T)
- Crashing, Season 1 (T)
- 11
- Deliverance (F)
- 14
- Flatliners (1990) (F)
- 15
- Raising Arizona (F)
- Six Feet Under, Season 2 (T)
- 16
- Maps to the Stars (F)
- 20
- Jessica Jones, Season 3 (T)
- I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (F)
- Hairspray (F)
- 24
- Bad Times at the El Royale (F)
- 25
- Dead Ringers (F)
- 26
- Snowpiercer (F)
- 27
- Booksmart (F)
- 28
- Poltergeist (F)
- Carrie (F)
- 29
- Gremlins (F)
- Friday the 13th (F)
- Friday the 13th Part II (F)
- 30
- Gentleman Jack, Season 1 (T)
- In the Aisles (F)
- July
- 1
- Pushing Daisies, Season 1 (T)
- Road House (1989) (F)
- 3
- Cecil B. Demented (F)
- Wake in Fright (F)
- The Proposition (F)
- 4
- Jaws (F) [R]
- 5
- Stranger Things, Season 3 (T)
- 6
- The Long Goodbye (F)
- 7
- Affinity, Sarah Waters (B)
- Paris Is Burning (F)
- The Last Resort (F)
- 8
- Prescription: Murder (F)
- Ransom for a Dead Man (F)
- 9
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (F)
- 10
- Midsommar (F)
- 12
- Chopping Mall (F)
- 13
- The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Mallory O'Meara (B)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (F)
- 14
- Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher (B) [R]
- The Earrings of Madame de… (F)
- The Gay Divorcee (F)
- 16
- Star Wars (F) [R]
- 17
- Jerichow (F)
- 20
- Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, Daniel Okrent (B)
- 21
- Veronica Mars, Season 4 (T)
- Cat People (1982) (F)
- 22
- Get Out (F)
- 23
- Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (B)
- Rosemary's Baby (F)
- 24
- Mars Attacks! (F)
- The Great Gatsby (2013) (F)
- 25
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (F)
- 26
- The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher (B)
- Crawl (F)
- 28
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (F)
- Rachel Getting Married (F)
- 29
- The Killer Is Loose (F)
- High School Hellcats (F)
- 31
- Eyes of Laura Mars (F)
- Cover Girl Killer (F)
- The Thing (F)
- August
- 1
- The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters (B)
- 3
- The Sisters Brothers (F)
- The Little Stranger (F)
- Laura, Vera Caspary (B)
- 4
- The Square (F)
- Gemini (F)
- 5
- Top Hat (F)
- 6
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (F)
- 7
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (F)
- 8
- Nightcrawler (F)
- 9
- Ghost Quartet (TH)
- 10
- Swing Time (F)
- 11
- GLOW, Season 3 (T)
- Last Year at Marienbad (F)
- 12
- Countess Dracula (F)
- Vampire Circus (F)
- 14
- Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted, Andrew Wilson (B)
- Widows (F)
- 17
- Claws, Season 1 (T)
- 18
- Mindhunter, Season 2 (T)
- 22
- What We Do in the Shadows, Season 1 (T)
- Twilight Zone, Season 4 (T)
- 23
- The Fugitive (F)
- 31
- The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin (B)
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (F)
- September
- 1
- Harlots, Season 3 (T)
- 2
- Claws, Season 2 (T)
- Robocop (1987) (F)
- Zodiac (F) [R]
- 3
- Tam Lin, Jane Yolen (B)
- Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids: A History of One of Florida's Oldest Roadside Attractions, Lu Vickers (B)
- 5
- The Stories You Tell, Kristen Lepionka (B)
- 6
- Body Heat (F)
- The Big Easy (F)
- Still of the Night (F)
- 7
- Chicago Loop, Paul Theroux (B)
- Trapped (F)
- Appointment with Danger (F)
- Sudden Fear (F)
- 8
- The Good Place, Season 3 (T) [R]
- 9
- The Vanishing Stair, Maureen Johnson (B)
- Fosse/Verdon (T)
- 10
- Weeki Wachee Mermaids: Thirty Years of Underwater Photography, Lu Vickers (B)
- 11
- The Deuce, Season 2 (T)
- 12
- Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran (B)
- The Last Days of August (P)
- 13
- Big Trouble in Little China (F)
- The Terminator (F)
- Late Night (F)
- 15
- Hustlers (F)
- 16
- Taxi Driver (F)
- Thief (F) [R]
- Sweet Smell of Success, Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman (S)
- 18
- John Wick (F)
- 19
- Hell or High Water (F)
- 20
- Criminal: United Kingdom, Season 1 (T)
- 21
- Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, Sara Gran (B)
- 22
- On Dangerous Ground (F)
- The Decline of Western Civilization (F)
- 26
- Between Two Ferns: The Movie (F)
- The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury (B)
- 28
- Crazyhead, Season 1 (T)
- 29
- Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett (S)
- Marianne, Season 1 (T)
- The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Mark Frost (B)
- 30
- Basic Instinct (F)
- October
- 1
- Midwest Independent Film Festival shorts program: Castle on Berwyn, Scary Ham, Eat Your Heart Out, Hey Man, Oh Baby!, On the Bit, Mes, One Foot in Front, The Follower (SF)
- 2
- Violet & Daisy (F)
- 3
- Black Christmas (1974) (F)
- Messiah of Evil (F)
- Never Fear (F)
- 5
- Rebel Without a Cause (F) [R]
- 6
- I Walked with a Zombie (F)
- The Seventh Victim (F)
- The Leopard Man (F)
- 8
- The Ghost Ship (F)
- The Isle of the Dead (F)
- 9
- The Body Snatcher (F)
- Bedlam (F)
- 10
- Memory: The Origins of Alien (F)
- Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (F)
- The Curse of the Cat People (F)
- 11
- Candyman (F)
- Too Late (F)
- Torso (1973) (F)
- Ginger Snaps (F)
- El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (F)
- 12
- It, Stephen King (B)
- The Conjuring (F)
- Jackie Brown (F)
- 13
- Ladies of Leisure (F)
- Illicit (F)
- Yella (F)
- Lake Mungo (F)
- 14
- Heat (F)
- 15
- The Infinite Blacktop, Sara Gran (B)
- The Amityville Horror (1979) (F)
- 16
- The Witch Who Came from the Sea (F)
- Ladies They Talk About (F)
- 17
- Daughters of Darkness (F)
- Hellraiser (F)
- 18
- Madhouse (F)
- Parasite (F)
- 19
- Year of the Monkey, Patti Smith (B)
- Destroyer (F)
- 20
- Countess Dracula (TH)
- Memories of Murder (F)
- 21
- Spider Baby (F)
- Jail Bait (F)
- 22
- The Ghoul (1975) (F)
- The Lodgers (F)
- 23
- Gothic (F)
- The Evil Dead (F)
- Evil Dead II (F)
- 24
- Blade Runner, Hampton Fancher and David Peoples (S)
- The Blood Spattered Bride (F)
- 25
- Escape from New York (F)
- 26
- Geek Love, Katherine Dunn (B)
- The Lighthouse (F)
- 27
- Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael (S)
- Black Narcissus (F)
- The Old Dark House (F)
- 28
- The Wicker Man (1973) (F)
- 30
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (F) [R]
- 31
- Beetlejuice (F) [R]
- Halloween (1978) (F)
- November
- 1
- Opera (F)
- The Band Wagon (F)
- Coraline (F) [R]
- Blade Runner (F) [R]
- 2
- House (F)
- Spirited Away (F) [R]
- 3
- The Maltese Falcon, John Huston (S)
- Repulsion (F)
- The Innocents (1961) (F)
- 4
- Quiet Please, Murder (F)
- 7
- Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero, Douglas Perry (B)
- 8
- The Irishman (F)
- 9
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (F)
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (F)
- 10
- The Villainess (F)
- The Housemaid (1960) (F)
- 11
- Cage of Evil (F)
- Confidence Girl (F)
- My Best Friend's Exorcism, Grady Hendrix (B)
- 12
- Hail Satan? (F)
- Steamboat Willie (SF)
- 13
- Tangled (F) [R]
- 14
- Alice Sweet Alice (F)
- The Slumber Party Massacre (F)
- Elmer Gantry (F)
- 15
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (F) [R]
- 16
- My Bloody Valentine (1981) (F)
- Blade Runner 2049 (F)
- 17
- After Dark, Haruki Murakami (B) [R]
- Inherent Vice (F)
- Season of the Witch (F)
- 18
- Re-Animator (F)
- 19
- Fatal Attraction (F)
- Thief (F) [R]
- 20
- The Return of the Living Dead (F)
- The Lair of the White Worm (F)
- The Wall Will Tell You: The Forensics of Screenwriting, Hampton Fancher (B)
- The Emperor's New Groove (F) [R]
- 21
- The Game (F)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (F)
- Devil's Bride (F)
- Drive (F)
- 22
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (F)
- Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator (F)
- 23
- The Muppet Movie (F)
- Knives Out (F)
- 24
- Atlantic City (F)
- Us (F)
- They Live by Night (F)
- Near Dark (F)
- 25
- Suspiria (1977) (F)
- The Baby (F)
- 26
- Venus in Furs (F)
- Total Recall (F)
- Climax (F)
- 27
- The Director's Six Senses: An Innovative Approach to Developing Your Filmmaking Skills, Simone Bartesaghi (B)
- Don't Look Now (F)
- The Crown, Season 3 (T)
- 28
- Alien (F) [R]
- Aliens (F)
- Ghostbusters (1984) (F) [R]
- Ghostbusters (2016) (F) [R]
- Clue (F) [R]
- 29
- The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (F)
- Knives Out (F) [R]
- The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (F)
- 30
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (B) [R]
- Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (F)
- Audition (F)
- Hereditary (F)
- December
- 1
- Hagazussa (F)
- 2
- The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, Karen Abbott (B)
- The People Under the Stairs (F)
- 3
- Greta (F)
- 4
- Lizzie (F)
- Dark Waters (1993) (F)
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer (F)
- 5
- The Changeling (F)
- Event Horizon (F)
- Lady Frankenstein (F)
- Suspiria (2018) (F)
- 6
- All the Colors of the Dark (F)
- Out of Blue (F)
- Pure (F)
- 8
- Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick (S)
- Kusama: Infinity (F)
- 9
- The Terror, Season 1 (T)
- The Housemaid (2016) (F)
- Jennifer's Body (F)
- 10
- The Set-Up (F)
- Diabolique (F)
- The Brood (F)
- I Shot Jesse James (F)
- 11
- The Baron of Arizona (F)
- 12
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (F)
- 13
- Dark, Season 1 (T)
- Knives and Skin (F)
- 14
- The Imagineering Story, Season 1 (T)
- The Wizard of Oz (F) [R]
- 15
- Star Wars (F) [R]
- The Empire Strikes Back (F) [R]
- Return of the Jedi (F) [R]
- 16
- Black Christmas (2019) (F)
- One Cut of the Dead (F)
- Circus of Horrors (F)
- 18
- Dark, Season 2 (T)
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (B)
- 19
- Summer of 84 (F)
- Knife+Heart (F)
- The Lost Boys (F)
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (F)
- 20
- Knives Out, Rian Johnson (S)
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (F)
- Die Hard (F) [R]
- 21
- Mandy (F)
- Maniac (F)
- Next of Kin (F)
- The Incubus (F)
- Dangerous Liaisons (F)
- 22
- The Babadook (F)
- Eraserhead (F)
- 23
- Life After Beth (F)
- The Letter (F)
- Enemy (F)
- 24
- Death at Brighton Pavilion, Ashley Gardner (B)
- 25
- Lost Highway, David Lynch and Barry Gifford (S)
- Ash Is Purest White (F)
- 26
- Lady in the Lake, Laura Lippman (B)
- Uncut Gems (F)
- 27
- The Killing (F) [R]
- The Italian Job (F)
- Of Human Bondage (F)
- The Mandalorian, Season 1 (T)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (F)
- 28
- Raw Deal (F)
- The Witcher, Season 1 (T)
- 29
- American Horror Story, Season 1 (T)
- Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, Nina MacLaughlin (B)
- 30
- The Petrified Forest (F)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (F)
- The Last Black Man in San Fransisco (F)
- Good Time (F)
- 31
- Killing Eve, Season 2 (T)
- Little Women (2019) (F)