2019 in Pixels and on Stage

It hasn’t all been writing and commuting and writing this year. Though, to be honest, what year ever is?

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Enjoyed on the big screen:

• Widows
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Red Riding: In The Year of Our Lord 1974
• On Chesil Beach
• Booksmart
• Bellbird
• The Irishman
• Stan and Ollie

Honourable mentions: Captain Marvel for being smart and fun; Shazam! for being funny; High Life for leaving this viewer grinning and unable to explain why; and Jojo Rabbit for pulling one of a hat.

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Lapped up on the small screen:

• Barry Season 2
• Gentleman Jack Season 1
• Dark Seasons 1–2
• Jett Season 1
• Educators Season 1
• Chernobyl
• Mindhunter Season 2
• The Expanse Season 4

Honourable mentions: the final, ultimately disappointing, season of Game of Thrones; The Leftovers, whose first season was a cracker; and The Crown, seasons one to two binged in the month of December, leaving the phrase “thenk yew” as a verbal handgrenade in Fortress Mamea.

Ahi Arunaharan’s My Heart Goes Thadak Thadak, Q Theatre. Pic from 13thfloor.co.nz.

On stage:

• Red Leap Theatre’s Owls Do Cry
• Ahi Arunaharan’s My Heart Goes Thadak Thadak
• Whangārei Music Society’s production of Rent
• White Man Behind a Desk: Party at the End of the World
• Matthew Loveranes’ MoodPorn
• Northland Youth Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet

Honourable mentions: Victor Rodger’s Club Paradiso, Bleeding Black, and Black Grace: Dark Matter.