Year in Review – What I Watched and Read in August 2020

Movie, TV, and Book Journal August 2020

August 1
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015) – J.J. Abrams
Call for the Dead by John le Carre (1961)

August 2
Zardoz (1974) – John Boorman

August 3
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman (2015)
Seinfeld, Season 1

August 4
Orr: My Story by Bobby Orr (2013)

August 5
A Bridge Too Far (1977) – Richard Attenborough

August 6
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
Jurassic Park (1993) – Steven Spielberg 

August 7
King of the Hill, Season 12
The Simpsons, Season 5

August 8
An American Pickle (2020) – Brandon Trost
Casino (1995) – Martin Scorsese
The Maltese Falcon (1941) – John Huston

August 9
Parks and Recreation, Season 4
Frost/Nixon (2008) – Ron Howard

August 10
WALL-E (2008) – Andrew Stanton

August 13
Dennis the Menace (1993) – Nick Castle

August 14
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow (2010)
There’s Something in the Water (2019) – Ellen Page and Ian Daniel

August 15
Seinfeld, Season 2
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (1986)

August 16
Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk and Cameron Stewart (2015)

August 17
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (2016)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) – Steven Spielberg

August 18
Total Recall (1990) – Paul Verhoeven

August 19
The Moonshine War by Elmore Leonard (1969)

August 20
Dave (1993) – Ivan Reitman

August 21
The Firm (1993) – Sydney Pollack

August 22
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) – Gareth Edwards
The Office (US), Season 6

August 23
Boston Celtics vs Philadelphia 76ers, Game 4 (2020) [ABC telecast]
Boston Bruins vs Tampa Bay Lightning, Game 1 (2020) [NBC telecast]

August 24
Pet Sematary by Stephen King (1983)
Community, Season 6

August 27
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1991)

August 28
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
The Legend of Korra, Season 1

August 29
Captain America: Civil War (2016) – Anthony and Joe Russo
King of the Hill, Season 13
Black Panther (2018) – Ryan Coogler
Booksmart (2019) – Olivia Wilde 

August 30
Succession, Season 1

August 31
Stand and Deliver (1988) – Ramon Menendez