When I wasn’t reading or riding or watching baseball I was catching up on movies and TV series (and a podcast). There were several things I really liked. All Quiet on the Western Front, The Wonder, Normal People, A Man Called Otto, Oppenheimer, Lupin, Get Out, and the Mike Birbiglia comedy specials were all worth the time. The Big Dig podcast is a must listen for anyone interested in transportation, urbanism, and grassroots protesting. The long-awaited Luther movie was strange. Luther is portrayed like a British Batman.
I really enjoyed the World Baseball Classic. It was held in the spring before the major league baseball season began. Just the thing for escaping winter’s doldrums. Alas, the Washington Nationals were mediocre. Still, they were a vast improvement over the 2022 team. Going to the games was a good excuse to hang out with my kids or get a bike ride in.
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Wonder
Wakanda Forever
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
Normal People
Where the Crawdads Sing
Luther: The Fallen Sun
The Mandalorian Season 3
Conversations with Friends
May
KT Tunstall at the Birchmere
A Man Called Otto
Bill Russell – Legend
Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania
Secret Invasion
Oppenheimer
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Heart of Stone
Lupin Season 3
Ashoka
All the Light We Cannot See
Cocaine Bear
Get Out
Whiplash
Squaring the Circle
The Killer
The Old Man and the Pool
I Should Have Said Nothing
My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
Thank God for Jokes
The New One
The Crown (actually watched the first four episodes in November).
Minari
Top Gun – Maverick
Interstellar
Yogi Berra – It Ain’t Over
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Air
Nyad
Big Adam Bikes
Death on the Nile
The Big Dig
A Few Spokes Shy of a Wheel 