My Favorites of Winter 2022-2023

❄️My Favorites of Winter 2022-2023 ☃️

Below, I have listed some of my favorite music, movies, movie trailers, YouTube videos, and TV that I have watched or listened to this winter. This has been a great season for some amazing entertainment. It'll be fun to show that off, also. 

🎞️ Movies/Specials:

1. Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl (watched February 13th, 2023)

~Great live performances of all of the songs. 

 

 

2. Rosaline (watched February 14th, 2023)

~I have never been a fan of Romeo and Juliet, ever since I first had to read it in 9th grade English. This movie was great though and was a wonderful interpretation of that story. Kaitlyn Dever is a great actress and I loved her as Rosaline. I liked how they kept to the details of the original story but made them work in the one that they were telling. Rosaline is just a lot of fun and I highly recommend it. 

 

3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (watched February 26th)

~One of the best animated movies that I have ever seen. I love how they made this movie look like a comic book throughout. Miles Morales's story is one that I did not know much about, but I loved following him. This is probably my favorite of the Spider-Man movies, and I really love many of the others.  

🎵 Music:

This season has been so great for music. I spent a lot of time listening to all of these songs and albums over and over again. 

1. "No Romeo" by Dylan

2. "Neon Moon" Brooks & Dunn with Kacey Musgraves

3. "Somewhere Only We Know" by Lily Allen

4. "If I Didn't Love You" by Banners

5. "Holding Out for a Hero" by Adam Lambert

6. "Never Gonna Not Dance Again" by Pink

7. "Believe" by Adam Lambert

8. "She Had me at Heads Carolina" Cole Swindell with Jo De Messina

9. "99 Years" by Josh Groban and Jennifer Nettles

10. "Run" by Josh Groban and Sarah McLachlan

11. "Extradinary Magic" by Ben Rector

12. "Still My Girl" by Jon McLaughlin

13. "Second Chance" by 38 Special

14. "I Will Always Be Yours" by Ben Rector

15. "The Impossible Dream" by Josh Groban    

16. "Walk" by Griff

17. Adam Lambert’s new album: High Drama

18. "All of the Girls You Loved Before" by Taylor Swift- Great new song by Taylor

📺 TV Shows:

1. Andor (Watched December 17th- January 19th) 

~This show was absolutely wonderful in every aspect. It took me up until the third episode to get into it, but that episode and the ones following were top notch. Definitely, the best Disney Star Wars content by far. I loved how different it was from anything else that we have seen in Star Wars. 

~One of the best aspects throughout the entire show was how the scenes were cut together. I liked seeing how they decided to have the scenes play together in each episode and seeing the different sides of the start of the rebellion. Each episode had me wanting to see what would happen next and anticipating what we would see to come.

~My favorite episode was Episode 10, but I have got to say that I enjoyed the entire show as a whole.

2. WandaVision (watched January 20th-February 3rd)

~Had a lot of fun with my rewatch of the show. Especially, seeing the details that I missed the first time around. This is definitely one of my favorite tv shows ever.

 

3. The Mandalorian Season 3: Episodes 1-3 (Watching March 1st-15th) 

~So far, I’m really enjoying Season 3 of The Mandalorian. I'll never get enough of Grogu and Mando together and the adventures that they go on. Can't wait to see where it goes from here.

 

4. Started The Clone Wars Season 1: Episodes 1-14 (Watching March 10th-19th)

~I have wanted to watch The Clone Wars for years but it has been daunting because of the amount of episodes that there are. This show is definitely a favorite so far and I love seeing more of the background Jedi. We also just recently watched all the prequels and I had forgotten how much I loved Revenge of the Sith. It is such a great movie.   

🖥️ YouTube:

1. Books and Lala

~ TBR & Goals for 2023 Reading

~ reading booktube's 2022 favourite books

~  I bought some new books, let me tell you about them

~  first reading vlog of 2023! 🍄✨ 

~  TBR & Goals for 2023 Reading

~  2022 Reading Year in Review + Stats

~  Best 10 Books of 2022

~ More Top 2022 Reads | most unexpected, underhyped & recommendable favourites

~ Best Books of the past 3 months + Quarterly Stats 

~ Books I Read in January

~ 5⭐ Audit | What Do My Favourite Books Have in Common?

~ Trying to Find 3 New Favourite Authors 🤞 Reading Vlog

2. SuperCarlin Brothers

~ J vs Ben: HARDEST Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter TRIVIA Quiz

~ J vs Ben: ULTIMATE Ludo Bagman Harry Potter TRIVIA Quiz feat. Mike Schubert

~ What If Harry Never Called The Knight Bus? | Harry Potter Film Theory

~ The TOP 5 Most Believable Moana Theories | Disney Film Theory 

~  The TRUTH About Woody’s Holster | Toy Story Pixar Film Theory 

~  Grindelwald’s SECRET Horcrux | Harry Potter Film Theory  

~  J vs Ben: ULTIMATE Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter TRIVIA Quiz

~  J vs Ben: ULTIMATE Deathly Hallows Harry Potter TRIVIA Quiz 

~  J vs Ben: ULTIMATE Weasley Burrow Harry Potter TRIVIA Quiz 

~ WALL-E is ACTUALLY The Little Mermaid | Disney Pixar Film Theory

~ How Fantastic Beasts Should Have Ended | Harry Potter Film Theory

~ Sokka’s DEATH Solved | Avatar the Last Airbender Film Theory- Yes! Avatar theories again. 

~ Mirabel Had A DARK Gift The Whole Time | Encanto Disney Film Theory

~ What Would ACTUALLY Make Toy Story 5 Worth It | Pixar Film Theory- Such a good theory! I want this to be the movie so much. Lol

~  J vs Ben: ULTIMATE Toy Story TRIVIA Quiz feat. Seamus Gorman

~  Cars Is A RIPOFF?! | Pixar Film Theory- Love Doc Hollywood

3. The Library of Allenxandria

~ Blindfold Book Cover Challenge the 3rd! | Trilogy Complete! | ft. My Lovely Wife, Christina!- Such a fun video! Love Allen's videos with Christina.  

 

 

4. Good Mythical Morning/More

~  Is This Food Actually Made of Paint? (Game) 

 

~  Testing Discontinued Toys From The 80's

~  We Play Blind Charades (Game) 

~  How To Have The Best Movie Night

~  How Do These Revenge Stories End? 

~  Ranking The Most Satisfying Videos 

~  Dumbest Game Show Answers

~  We Tried EVERY Skittles Flavor 

~  How Many People Can We Fit In A Car?- Oh my gosh! Haha

~  Lunchables Taste Test Tournament

~  America's Craziest Stadium Food Taste Test  

~  Ranking The Best Frozen Wings 

~  Real Food vs. Drawing (Challenge)

5.  P!NK & Kelly Clarkson Duet 'What About Us' | Sneak Peek- An absolutely wonderful performance. Love P!NK and Kelly so much. 

6. Into the Wardrobe

~ Narnia's Mysterious Reading Orders Explained: The BEST way to read Chronicles of Narnia!

~ The Meaning of Christmas in Narnia | Narnia Lore | Into the Wardrobe

 

 

  

7. Taylor Swift MIDNIGHTS Album Review & DEEP DIVE- I used to watch Christine a lot, years ago. Her Taylor Swift videos have always been my favorites and this one was great. 

8.  P!NK & Kelly Clarkson Duet 'Who Knew'-My favorite song from Pink. This is so beautiful!

9. P!NK - When I Get There (Lyric Video)- This song is beautiful!

10. Stardust ~ Lost in Adaptation- Dom’s Lost in Adaptation series has always been a favorite of mine and I was beyond excited when he said that he was going to do an episode on Stardust. Stardust is my favorite movie of all time. 

Other Favorites

1. David Tennant Does a Podcast With… 

~ This was just a joy. I have loved David Tennant for a long time and it was a joy to get to listen to him talk with other people for this podcast. In the winter, I listened to the Neil Gaiman one.

 

 

Musicals

1. Once Upon a Mattress at Bloomsburg High School (watched March 4th) 

-We love going to plays and musicals going on around our home and supporting the schools. The students did such a great job doing this musical and we had such a great time watching it. A hilariously good time, with great music.

 

 

2. Into the Woods at Berwick High School (watched March 19th)

-I have wanted to see the Disney version of this musical ever since it came out years ago and still have not. This was wonderful and we really enjoyed seeing it this past weekend. I love how they combined the fairy tales.