Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Blogkeeping -- Summer/Fall 2016

Blogkeeping again!  This one isn't as way past due as other previous editions.

100 movies from March 2016 (bottom) to December 2016 (top) - some lame remakes and lots of shows?

Pollyanna (2003) ** 1/2 • Anne of Green Gables (2016) ** • Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen-X (Season 33) **** 1/2 • Galaxy Quest [r] ***** • Poldark (Season 2) ** 1/2 • Bartok the Magnificent [r] *** 1/2 • Anastasia [r] ***** • Doctor Strange **** • Finding Dory ** 1/2 • Moana ***** • Mortal Kombat [r?] *** • Independence Day: Resurgence ** 1/2 • Star Trek Beyond *** • The Shallows **** • Ghostbusters: Answer the Call *** • Insidious: Chapter 3 ** 1/2 • Serenity [r] ***** • Mascots *** 1/2 • Haters Back Off (Season 1) *** • Insidious: Chapter 2 *** 1/2 • Alice Through the Looking Glass ** • Jurassic World [r] **** 1/2 • Billy Elliot The Musical Live *** • X-Men: Apocalypse ** 1/2 • Now You See Me 2 ** 1/2 • Me Before You ** • Love & Friendship ** 1/2 • The Legend of Tarzan **** • Goosebumps [r] **** • The Darkness ** • My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 ** 1/2 • Jem and the Holograms * 1/2 • Dracula Untold ** 1/2 • Les Miserables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010) **** • The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business (Season 18) [r] **** • Les Miserables (2012) [r] ** 1/2 • The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall [r] *** 1/2 • The Phantom of the Opera (2004) [r] *** • The Huntsman: Winter's War * 1/2 • Wolf Hall (mostly) *** • The Amazing Race: All Stars (Season 24) [r] **** • The Jungle Book (2016) ** • Alien *** • Stranger Things (Season 1) **** • The 5th Wave ** • 101 Dalmatians [r] ***** • Suffragette **** • War and Peace (2016) **** 1/2 • Endeavour (Season 3) *** 1/2 • A Very Brady Sequel [r] **** • 10 Cloverfield Lane **** • The Intern *** 1/2 • Star Wars: The Force Awakens [r] *** • The Peanuts Movie [r] ***** • Scre4m ** • Pride and Prejudice (2005) [r] *** 1/2 • Pride & Prejudice & Zombies ** • The Amazing Race (Season 23) [r] **** 1/2 • Zootopia *** • The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Season 2) ** 1/2 • Gotham (Season 2) *** 1/2 • Grimm (Season 4) ** 1/2 • The Big Year [r] **** 1/2 • Survivor: Khao Rong - Brains vs Brawn vs Beauty (Season 32) *** 1/2 • Bates Motel (Season 4) *** 1/2 • The Brady Bunch Movie [r] **** • Creed ** 1/2 • The Amazing Race (Season 28) *** • The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Season 1) *** • Captain America: Civil War *** • Concussion **** • The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [r] *** 1/2 • Project Runway All Stars (Season 5) *** 1/2 • Carrie (2013) *** 1/2 • Documentary Now! (Season 1) *** 1/2 • The Spoils Before Dying *** 1/2 • The Black Cauldron [r] *** 1/2 • Daredevil (Season 2) ** 1/2 • Victor Frankenstein ** • In the Heart of the Sea *** • Everest *** 1/2 • Up [r] *** • Brave [r] *** 1/2 • Inside Out [r] **** 1/2 • The Good Dinosaur ** 1/2 • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 [r] **** • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 [r] *** 1/2 • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [r] ***** • The Hunger Games [r] **** • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh [r] ***** • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ** • Secret In Their Eyes **** • Seventh Son * • Amazing Grace [r] *** 1/2 • The Martian *** 1/2 • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell [r] **** • Spectre ** • Leap Year [r] *** 1/2 • Agent Carter (Season 2) **** • The Muppets (Season 1) *** 1/2

100 books from July 2016 (bottom) to January 2017 (top) - again with the sooooo many children's books (lots of Charlie and Lola and the discovery of Molly Idle) and a HP misstep.

Trashy Town (Andrea Zimmerman) ** 1/2 • C&L: Slightly Invisible (Lauren Child) ***** • A Small Thing... but Big (Tony Johnston) **** • The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings (Carolyn Sherwin Bailey) **** • Little Blue Truck (Alice Schertle) **** • Who Is Driving? (Leo Timmers) *** • The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Jon Scieszka) *** • Tumble Bumble (Felicia Bond) ***** • Little Green Peas: A Big Book of Colors (Keith Baker) **** • Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Mo Willems) **** • Edgar and the Tattle-Tale Heart (Jennifer Adams) **** • Lion Lessons (Jon Agee) *** • Owl Moon (Jane Yolen) ***** • Waiting (Kevin Henkes) **** • Honey... Honey... Lion! (Jan Brett) **** • The Mitten (Jan Brett) ***** • Outside Over There (Maurice Sendak) *** • Your Personal Penguin (Sandra Boynton) ***** • Spot, the Cat (Henry Cole) **** • C&L: My Best, Best Friend (Lauren Child) **** • C&L: I Am Going To Save a Panda! (Lauren Child) ** • C&L: My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Fall Out (Lauren Child) **** • The Z Was Zapped (Chris Van Allsburg) **** • Toot & Puddle (Holly Hobbie) **** • The Very Quiet Cricket (Eric Carle) ***** • One (Kathryn Otoshi) *** • Tell Me a Picture (Quentin Blake) ***** • Truck: Whizz! Zoom! Rumble! (Patricia Hubbell) **** 1/2 • Up and Down (Oliver Jeffers) ***** • Stuck (Oliver Jeffers) ***** • Flora and the Flamingo (Molly Idle) ***** • Flora and the Penguin (Molly Idle) **** • C&L: I Want To Be Much More Bigger Like You (Lauren Child) **** • C&L: I Slightly Want To Go Home (Lauren Child) **** • The Maze Runner (James Dashner) *** • Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Silvia Borando) ***** • Go, Dog. Go! (P.D. Eastman) ***** • Apples and Robins (Lucie Felix) **** • Busy Builders, Busy Week! (Jean Reidy) *** 1/2 • Chu's Day (Neil Gaiman) *** • Green Lizards vs. Red Rectangles (Steve Antony) *** • Goodnight, My Duckling (Nancy Tufari) **** • Come Along, Daisy! (Jane Simmons) **** • The Saddest Toilet In the World (Sam Apple) ** • Bruno Munari's ABC (Bruno Munari) *** • A to Z (Sandra Boynton) **** • C&L: You Can Be My Friend (Lauren Child) **** • The Cat In the Hat (Dr. Seuss) **** • A Child of Books (Oliver Jeffers) ***** • Some Pets (Angela Diterlizzi) **** • The Very Busy Spider (Eric Carle) **** • Is Mommy? (Victoria Chang/Marla Frazee) *** • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle) *** • Lost and Found (Oliver Jeffers) **** • How To Catch a Star (Oliver Jeffers) ***** • Camp Rex (Molly Idle) *** 1/2 • Tea Rex (Molly Idle) ***** • My Truck Is Stuck! (Kevin Lewis and Daniel Kirk) *** • The Very Lonely Firefly (Eric Carle) ***** • This Plus That: Life's Little Equations (Amy Krouse Rosenthal) *** • I Scream! Ice Cream! A Book of Wordles (Amy Krouse Rosenthal) *** • Is It Big or Is It Little? (Claudia Rueda) *** • Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) *** • Are You My Mother? (PD. Eastman) **** • Peep and Ducky (David Martin) **** • Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up? (Bill Martin Jr.) **** • Meet Me At the Moon (Gianna Marino) *** • The Cow Loves Cookies (Karma Wilson) **** • Bedtime For Chickies (Janee Trasler) **** • Can You See Little Bear? (James Mayhew) **** • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II (John Tiffany and Jack Thorne) ** • How To Eat an Airplane (Peter Pearson) *** • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Mo Willems) *** 1/2 • Flora and the Peacocks (Molly Idle) ***** • Farm Animals (Rod Campbell) *** • Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book (Rod Campbell) ***** • Miss Suzy (Miriam Young) ***** • The Island of the Skog (Steven Kellogg) *** • The 5th Wave (Rick Yancey) *** • Horns To Toes and In Between (Sandra Boynton) ***** • Hello, Airplane! (Bill Cotter) **** • C&L: I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go To Bed (Lauren Child) **** • How To Be a Cat (Nikki McClure) **** • Lady In the Water: A Bedtime Story (M. Night Shyamalan) ** • C&L: I Really Absolutely Must Have Glasses (Lauren Child) **** • The Black Book of Colors (Menena Cottin) *** • Zero (Kathryn Otoshi) **** • C&L: Whoops! But It Wasn't Me (Lauren Child) ***** • Bedtime for Mommy (Amy Krouse Rosenthal) ***** • If You Give a Moose a Muffin (Laura Joffe Numeroff) **** • While You Were Sleeping (John Butler) ***** • Shake It Up, Baby! (Karen Katz) *** • I See Kitty (Yasmine Surovec) **** • How To Lose a Lemur (Frann Preston-Gannon) *** • How To Wash A Woolly Mammoth (Michelle Robinson) *** 1/2 • Construction (Sally Sutton) **** • Demolition (Sally Sutton) **** • Duck! Rabbit! (Amy Krouse Rosenthal) *** • Owlet's First Flight (Mitra Modarressi) **** • Posy (Linda Newbery) ***