*Movie and TV Reviews have been reinstated on The Starving Artist, as of July, 2020 (after stopping in March, 2014). If the movie or show is related to a book, it will be reviewed on that book review. Otherwise, movies, TV shows, and possibly even music will be reviewed on a monthly basis, journal-style.* (See the Best Movies and TV Shows list, HERE.)

It is true, this is a literary and writer’s blog. However, I found myself wanting to catalog my impressions of movies while I was at it (blogging), so I began lumping the reviews into my month recaps and my holiday posts. Eventually, I realized that I needed a way to be able to find them in the future, so the Movie and TV Review page emerged. If you’re interested, just click on the links below. Warning: I am no expert, but there are some interesting movies here, great connections to holidays, and even a significant amount of book-related movies. (Music reviews can also be found, below.) Another note: My movie and music reviews are far shorter and less extensive than my book reviews.

• 500 Days of Summer (2009) ***
• About a Boy (movie, 2002) *** and HERE
• About Schmidt (2002) ***
• The Accidental Tourist (1988)
• The Addams Family (movie, 1991)
• Admission (movie, 2013) *
• Adventures in Babysitting (1987) *
• Akeelah and the Bee (2006) *
• Aladdin (movie, 2019) *
• Alice in Wonderland (movie, 1951) *
• Alice in Wonderland (movie, 2010) *
• Alice Through the Looking Glass (movie, 2016) *
• Almost Famous (2000) ***
• Amazing Grace (movie, 2006) ***
• Amadeus (1984) ***
• Amelie (movie, 2001) *** and HERE
• American Movie (1999) *
• An American Pickle (movie, 2020) (*)
• Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging (movie, 2008) *** better review HERE
• Anna and the Apocalypse ***
• Anna Karenina (movie, 2012) ***
• Anne of Green Gables (movie trilogy, 1985) *
• Anne with an “E” (Anne of Green Gables TV series, 2016)
• Annie (movie, 1982) ***
• Arrival (movie, 2017) *
• Authors Anonymous, (movie, 2014)
• The Baby-Sitters Club (series, 2020)
• Battlestar Galactica (miniseries movie and TV series, 2004-2009) *
• Beaches (movie, 1988) * Better review HERE.
• Beat Bobby Flay (TV series, 2013-) (*) and HERE
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (movie, 2019)
• Beauty and the Beast (movie, 2017) *
• Beetlejuice (movie, 1998) *
• Before Sunrise (movie, 1995)
• Bend It Like Beckham (movie, 2002) ***
• Bernie (movie, 2011) *
• Best Baker in America (TV series, 2017-2019)
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie, 2011) *
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) *
• The Bible (TV miniseries, 2013) *?
• Big Fish (movie, Tim Burton) *
• Billy Elliot (movie, 2000) ***
• Blinded by the Light (movie, 2019) *
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) (*)
• Bridgerton (TV series) *
• Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) ***
• Britain’s Best Home Cook (TV series, 2018) *
• Cake Wars (TV series, 2015)
• Candace Against the Universe (Phineas and Ferb movie, 2020) *
• Capote (movie, 2005) **
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (movie, 1971) *
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (movie, 2005) *
• A Charlie Brown Christmas (TV special, 1965) ***
• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (TV special, 1965) *
• The Chef Show (TV series, 2019)
• The Christmas Chronicles (2018) (*)
• The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020)
• Christmas Cookie Challenge (2017–) (*)
• A Christmas Story (movie, 1983) *** (and HERE)
• A Christmas Story 2
• A Christmas Story Christmas (*)
• Christmas Vacation (movie, 1989) *** and HERE
• Cinderella (movie, 2015) *
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (movie, 2013) *?
• Clueless (movie, 1995) *
• Cloverfield (movie) *
• Community (TV series) **
• Coraline (movie, 2009) ***
• The Craft (1996)
• Crazy Delicmovie, ious (TV series, 2020)
• The Crimes of Grindewald (movie, 2018; Fantastic Beasts #2)
• The Croods (movie, 2013) ***
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (movie, 2000) ***
• Cyrano (movie, 2022) ***
• Dark (TV miniseries, 2017) *
• Dead Again (movie, 1991) *
• Derry Girls (TV series) *
• The Desolation of Smaug (movie, 2013) *
• Django Unchained (movie, 2012) *
• A Doll’s House (movie, 1973) *
• Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square (*)
• Donnie Darko (movie, 2001) ***
• Don’t Look Up (movie, 2021) **
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold (movie, 2020) *?
• Downton Abbey (TV series, 2010-) *** (Also HERE)
• The Dropout (miniseries) *
• Eagle Vs Shark (movie, 2007) ***
• Easy A (movie, 2010) *
• Edward Scissorhands (movie, 1990) ***
• Elf and here (movie, 2003) ***
• Elvis (movie, 2022) *
• Emma. (movie, 2020) ***
• Encanto (movie, 2021) ***
• Ender’s Game (movie, 2014) *
• Enola Holmes (movie, 2020)
• Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
• Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (movie, 2022) *
• The Family Stone (2005)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (movie, 2016; Fantastic Beasts #1) *
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (movie, 2018; Fantastic Beasts #2) *
• Forrest Gump (movie, 1994) ***
• Framing Britney Spears (TV special, 2021)
• Frances Ha (movie, 2012) ***
• Frankenstein (movie, 1931) *
• Frankenweenie (movie, 2012) ***
• Free Guy (movie, 2021) *
• Fringe (TV series, 2008-2013) * Also HERE and HERE
• Frozen (movie, 2013) *
• Garden State (movie, 2004) ***
• Girl Most Likely (movie, 2012) * (And again HERE)
• Gone Girl (2014) *
• Good Bones (TV series) *
• The Good Place (series, 2016-2020)
• Goosebumps (movie, 2015) ***
• Grease (movie, 1978) *
• The Great (TV series, 2020)
• The Great British Baking Show (TV series, 2010s) ***
• The Great British Bake Off (TV series, 2010s-) ***
• The Great British Pottery Throwdown (TV series) ***
• The Great Christmas Bake Off (TV series spinoff) *
• The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013) ***
• The Grinch (movie, 2018) *
• The Guilt Trip (movie, 2012) *
• Halloween Baking Championship (TV series) * (and HERE)
• Halloween Wars (TV series) *
• Hamlet (movie, 1990)
• Hamlet (movie, 1996) *
• Hamlet (movie, 2000)
• Hamlet (TV movie, 2009) *
• Harry Potter (movie series) *** and HERE
• Haunted Mansion (2003)
• He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special (movie, 1985)
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (movie, 2013) *
• Holiday Baking Championship (TV series) *
• Home Alone (movie, 1990) *** and HERE
• How to Build a Girl (2020)
• How to Train Your Dragon (movie) *
• Hunky Dory (movie, 2011)
• Identity Thief (movie, 2013)
• In Cold Blood (movie, 1967) *
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (movie, 1989) *
• Inventing Anna (miniseries) (*)
• I’ll Have What Phil’s Having (TV series, 2016) ***
• Interstellar (movie, 2014) *
• The Invention of Lying (movie, 2009) ***
• I, Tonya (movie, 2017) ***
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) ***
• It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (movie) ***
• In Wonderland (TV series, 2013)
• The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (movie, 2013) *
• Jack Reacher (movie, 2012)
• Jack the Giant Slayer (movie, 2013)
• James and the Giant Peach (movie, 1996) *
• Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill (TV special, 2020) *
• Jingle Jangle (2020) *
• Jojo Rabbit (2019) ***
• Jumanji (movie, 1995) ***
• Jumanji: Next Level (movie, 2019) ***
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (movie, 2018) ***
• Jungle Cruise (movie, 2021) *
• Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet (movie, 2013) *
• Knives Out, (movie, 2019) *
• Ladybird (2017) *
• Last Christmas *
• Les Miserables (movie, 1998) *
• Les Miserables (movie, 2012)
• Life of Pi (movie, 2012) ***
• L. M. Montogomery’s Anne of Green Gables (2017) *
• Lobby Baby (comedy special, 2020) *
• Looper (movie, 2012) *
• Love Actually (movie, 2003) *** and HERE
• Love, Simon (movie 2018) **
• Macbeth (1948) (*)
• Macbeth (1971) (*)
• Macbeth (2015) (*)
• Maleficent (movie, 2014) *
• Mansfield Park (movie, 1999) *?
• The Man Who Invented Christmas (movie, 2017) *
• Mary Shelley (movie, 2017)
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (movie, 1994) *?
• The Matrix (movie, 1999) *
• MasterChef (TV series, 2010-)
• MasterChef Junior (TV series, 2013)
• Merlin (TV series) *
• Mickey’s Christmas Carol (TV special, 1983) *
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (movie, 1999) ***
• Miracle on 34th Street (movie, 1947) *
• Mister Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (movie, 2007) *
• Moana (2016) *
• Modern Family (TV series, 2009-) *
• Monsoon Wedding (movie, 2001) ***
• A Monster In Paris (movie, 2011) *
• Monsters University (movie, 2013) *
• Moulin Rouge! (movie, 2001) ***
• Mr. Holmes (movie, 2016) *
• Mr. Peabody and Sherman (movie, 2014) *
• Ms. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (movie, 2016) *
• Much Ado About Nothing (movie, 1993) ***
• Mulan (2020) *
• A Muppet Christmas Carol (movie, 1992) ***
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (movie, 2002) *
• Naked and Afraid (TV series, 2013-) *
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) ***
• Nativity Story (movie, 2006)
• New Girl (TV series, 2011-) *
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (movie) ***
• Nim’s Island (movie, 2008)
• No Demo Reno (TV series) *
• Noelle (*)
• Nope (movie, 2022) *
• Northanger Abbey (2007)
• Now You See Me (movie, 2013) *
• The Office (TV series, 2005-2013) ***
• Of Mice and Men (1930s)
• Of Mice and Men (1992) *
• Olive Kitteridge (TV series, 2017) *
• Oliver! (1968)
• Oliver Twist (1948)
• Once (movie, 2006) ***
• Once Upon a Time: In Wonderland (TV series, 2013-)
• One Magic Christmas
• Only Murders in the Building (TV series) *
• Over the Garden Wall (miniseries, 2014) (*)
• Oz, the Great and Powerful (movie, 2013)
• Pacific Rim (movie, 2013) *?
• Parasite (movie, 2019) *
• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (movie, 2010)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (movie, 2012) *
• The Personal History of David Copperfield (movie, 2019) ***
• Phineas and Ferb (TV series, 2007-) ***
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) *
• Princess Bride (movie, 1987) *
• Radioactive (movie, 2020) *
• Ramona and Beezus (movie) *
• The Rebel in the Rye (movie, 2017) *(**)
• Rise of the Guardians (movie, 2012) *
• Robot and Frank (movie, 2012)
• Rocketman (2019) ***
• Romeo + Juliet (movie, 1996) ***
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (movie, 1990) *
• Ruby Sparks (movie, 2012) ***
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1939) *
• Safety Not Guaranteed (movie, 2012) *
• Save Yourselves! (movie, 2020) **
• Saving Mr. Banks (movie, 2013) *?
• Say Anything (movie, 1989) (*)
• The School for Good and Evil (movie, 2022) *
• Schoolhouse Rock *
• Scott Pilgrim Vs the World (movie, 2010) ***
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (movie, 2014) ***
• Seduced (TV docuseries, 2020) *
• See You Yesterday (2019) (*)
• Sense and Sensibility (movie, 1995) *** (Another review HERE)
• Sense and Sensibility (miniseries, 2008) *
• Shakespeare in Love (movie, 1998)
• Sherlock (TV miniseries, 2010-) ***
• The Secret of Moonacre (movie, 2008)
• Silver Linings Playbook (movie, 2012) *?
• Slumdog Millionaire (movie 2008) ***
• The Social Dilemma (documentary, 2020) ***
• Somebody Feed Phil (TV series, 2018-) ***
• Soul (2020) *
• Speed (movie, 1994) *
• Spider-Man: Far from Home (movie, 2019) *
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (movie, 2017) *
• Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (movie, 2018) ***
• Spies in Disguise (2019)
• Spirited ***
• Spring Baking Championship (TV series) *
• A Star Is Born (2018) *
• Stranger Than Fiction (movie, 2006) ***
• Stranger Things (TV series) ***
• The Supersizers Go… (TV series, 2007-) ***
• Taco Chronicles (TV series, 2019)
• Taste the Nation (TV series, 2019-)
• Ted Lasso (TV series) ***
• The Thing About Pam (miniseries) *
• Tick, Tick… Boom! (movie, 2021) **
• Time to Eat (TV series, 2020-) *
• Tolkien (2019) *
• Tournament of Champions (TV series) *
• The Truman Show (movie, 1998) *** and HERE
• The Trump Insurrection (CNN special, 2021)
• Turbo (movie, 2013) *
• Twilight (movie series, 2008-2012)
• Ugly Betty (TV series, 2006-2010) ***
• Ultimate Summer Cook-Off (TV series, 2018)
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (movie, 2022) ***
• The Village (2004)
• Violent Night *
• The Vow (TV docuseries, 2020) *
• Wandavision (TV series, 2020) (*)
• Wayne’s World (movie, 1992) ***
• Wednesday (TV series, 2022-) ***
• Week In a Day (TV series, 2010-2016)
• West Side Story (movie, 2021) (*)
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (2019)
• White Teeth (miniseries, 2001) *
• The Wife (movie, 2017)
• The Witches (movie, 2020) (*)
• Wonder (movie, 2018) *
• Wonder Woman 1984/WW84 (2020)
• The Worst Person in the World (movie, 2022) *
• The X-Files (TV series and movies, 1990s-2010s) ***
• Young Frankenstein (movie, 1974) *?
• Zathura (movie, 2005) ***

Music and the Random Books:

• The Dawn of Grace (album, Sixpence None the Richer)
• Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas (album, Ella Fitzgerald)
• Frankenstein (book, Mary Shelley)
• A Fresh Aire Christmas (album, Mannheim Steamroller)
• The Ghost Eye Tree (book)
• Ladli (book, Fasal Sheik, 2008)
• Native Air (album, Lowland Hum, 2013)
• Scones and Sensibility (book, Lindsay Eland)
• Snow Angels (album, Over the Rhine)
• Summer of Sundays (book, Lindsay Eland)
• A Very She & Him Christmas (album, She & Him)
• Wishing For This (album, Leigh Nash)
• The Witches (book, Roald Dahl)

List of My Favorite Music:

• Iron and Wine
• Regina Spektor
• “The Village,” by Wrable