Tuesday, January 1, 2019

My Favorite 18 Movies/Shows of 2018


These are my 18 favorite movies/shows of the year. Not the best or most popular, that's for critics and box office receipts, these are just the ones I liked of those that I saw. 

A couple 2017 movies (and one from 1968) are here because their 2018 home video releases were worthy of inclusion. The lines between box office/streaming/home video are beginning to blur, this list will be all yearly releases, no matter the format, from now on. Listed alphabetically.



  • 2001 A Space Odyssey - 4k
  • Annihilation - Theatrical/4k
  • Avengers Infinity War - Theatrical/4k
  • Black Panther - Theatrical/4k
  • Blade Runner 2049 - 4k
  • Bohemian Rhapsody - Theatrical
  • Deadpool 2 - Theatrical/4k
  • The Endless - Blu-Ray
  • Hereditary - Theatrical/Blu-Ray
  • It - 4k
  • Legion Season One - TV/Blu-Ray
  • Mission Impossible Fallout - Theatrical/4k
  • The Shape Of Water - 4k
  • Star Trek Discovery Season One - TV/Blu-Ray
  • Star Wars The Last Jedi - 4k
  • Thor Ragnarok - 4k
  • Upgrade - Theatrical/Blu-Ray 
  • Won't You Be My Neighbor? - Theatrical/Blu-Ray



Sequels, reboots and adaptations that did not suck. While these didn’t make the year end list, I found all to be more entertaining than reviews would have you believe.


  • Ant-Man and The Wasp - Theatrical/4k
  • Incredibles 2 - Theatrical/4K
  • Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle - 4k
  • Sicario 2 Day of The Soldado - Theatrical/4k
  • The Equalizer 2 - Theatrical/4k
  • The Predator - Theatrical/4k
  • The Strangers: Prey At Night -  Blu-Ray
  • Tomb Raider - Theatrical/4k
  • Venom - Theatrical/4K




Things I still haven’t gotten around to but will soon:


  • Ralph Breaks The Internet - Theatrical/4K
  • Crazy Rich Asians - Theatrical/4K
  • Isle Of Dogs - Theatrical/Blu-Ray






My Favorite 18 Albums of 2018



These are my 18 favorite releases of the year. Not the best or most popular, that's for critics and sales receipts, these are just the ones I liked of those that I heard. Listed alphabetically.


  • Coheed And Cambria - Vaxis - Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures 
  • Conception - My Dark Symphony EP 
  • Dead Letter Circus - Dead Letter Circus 
  • Disconnected - White Colossus 
  • Ghost - Prequelle 
  • Haken - Vector 
  • The Intersphere - The Grand Delusion
  • Kingcrow - The Persistence 
  • The Mars Chronicles - Origins 
  • Mass Sky Raid - Science Or Fiction 
  • Midas Fall - Evaporate
  • Mystery - Lies And Butterflies 
  • The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution 
  • Redemption - Long Night's Journey Into Day 
  • Riverside - Wasteland 
  • Spock's Beard - Noise Floor 
  • Subsignal - La Muerta 
  • VOLA - Applause Of A Distant Crowd 




Favorite Live Albums/Box Sets/Reissues of 2018: 


  1. Steven Wilson - Home Invasion - Blu-Ray/CD 
  2. Rush - Hemispheres 40th Anniversary Box Set - Blu-Ray Audio 
  3. Marillion - Clutching At Straws Deluxe Edition - Blu-Ray Audio
  4. Yes - Live At The Apollo - Blu-Ray 
  5. Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere... - Blu-Ray  
  6. Opeth - Garden Of The Titans - Blu-Ray/CD 
  7. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine Live - DVD/CD 
  8. Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won - Blu-Ray Audio 
  9. Alan Parson Project - Eye In The Sky - Blu-Ray Audio