{"id":5564,"date":"2019-12-31T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2020-05-03T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T23:33:58","slug":"2019-in-pixels-and-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2019-in-pixels-and-on-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 in Pixels and on Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t all been writing and commuting and writing this year. Though, to be honest, what year ever is?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Spider-Man_Into_the_Spider-Verse_(2018_poster).png#\/media\/File:Spider-Man_Into_the_Spider-Verse_(2018_poster).png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/b\/b8\/Spider-Man_Into_the_Spider-Verse_%282018_poster%29.png\" alt=\"Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse (2018 poster).png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Source, <a title=\"Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Spider-Man_Into_the_Spider-Verse_(2018_poster).png\">Fair use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=59740919\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed on the big screen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Widows_(2018_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Widows<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spider-Man:_Into_the_Spider-Verse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Red Riding: In The Year of Our Lord 1974<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_Chesil_Beach_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>On Chesil Beach<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Booksmart<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noted.co.nz\/culture\/culture-movies\/bellbird-movie-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Bellbird<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>The Irishman<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Stan and Ollie<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions: <em>Captain Marvel<\/em> for being smart and fun; <em>Shazam!<\/em> for being funny; <em>High Life<\/em> for leaving this viewer grinning and unable to explain why; and <em>Jojo Rabbit<\/em> for pulling one of a hat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Chernobyl_2019_Miniseries.jpg#\/media\/File:Chernobyl_2019_Miniseries.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/a7\/Chernobyl_2019_Miniseries.jpg\" alt=\"Poster showing Chernobyl the five part miniseries for HBO\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy <span title=\"must have been published or publicly displayed outside Wikipedia\">Source<\/span> (<a title=\"Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria#4\">WP:NFCC#4<\/a>), <a title=\"Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Chernobyl (miniseries)\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Chernobyl_2019_Miniseries.jpg\">Fair use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=60690271\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lapped up on the small screen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Barry<\/em> Season 2<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gentleman_Jack_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Gentleman Jack<\/em><\/a> Season 1<\/li>\n<li><em>Dark<\/em> Seasons 1\u20132<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jett_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Jett<\/em><\/a> Season 1<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/shows\/educators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Educators<\/em><\/a> Season 1<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chernobyl_(miniseries)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Chernobyl<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Mindhunter<\/em> Season 2<\/li>\n<li><em>The Expanse<\/em> Season 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions: the final, ultimately disappointing, season of <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>; <em>The Leftovers<\/em>, whose first season was a cracker; and <em>The Crown<\/em>, seasons one to two binged in the month of December, leaving the phrase &#8220;thenk yew&#8221; as a verbal handgrenade in Fortress Mamea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.13thfloor.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/My-Heart-Goes-Thadak.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.13thfloor.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/My-Heart-Goes-Thadak.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Promotional pic for Q Theatre season\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAhi Arunaharan&#8217;s <em>My Heart Goes Thadak Thadak<\/em>, Q Theatre. Pic from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.13thfloor.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13thfloor.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On stage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red Leap Theatre&#8217;s <em>Owls Do Cry<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ahi Arunaharan&#8217;s <i>My Heart Goes Thadak Thadak<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Whang\u0101rei Music Society&#8217;s production of <em>Rent<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCo46IpsBPqg8k6Ih0qYzlMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White Man Behind a Desk<\/a>: Party at the End of the World<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Matthew Loveranes&#8217;\u00a0<em>MoodPorn<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Northland Youth Theatre&#8217;s production of <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions: Victor Rodger&#8217;s <em>Club Paradiso<\/em>, <i>Bleeding Black<\/i>, and\u00a0<em>Black Grace: Dark Matter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t all been writing and commuting and writing this year. Though, to be honest, what year ever is? By Source, Fair use, Link 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: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2019-in-pixels-and-on-stage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2019 in Pixels and on Stage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,4,6,23],"tags":[1166,1334,1345,1342,1344,1343,1346,1302,1347],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","category-television","category-theatre","tag-ahi-karunaharan","tag-barry","tag-bellbird","tag-chernobyl","tag-educators","tag-moodporn","tag-on-chesil-beach","tag-red-leap-theatre","tag-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}