I watched, listened, and read quite a bit last year. Below are my favorites from each category. Italicized items are a thing that I really liked.
Movies
- Weapons
- Sinners
- Nouvelle Vague
- Predator: Killer of Killers
- Bugonia
- One Battle After Another
- Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music
- Naked Gun
- The Ballad of Wallis Island
- Primitive War
TV
- The Pitt
- Adolescence
- Nobody Wants This
- Task
- Pluribus
- Bon Appetit, Your Majesty
- Slow Horses
- Andor
- Common Side Effects
- Paradise
Music
- Geese – Getting Killed
- Wednesday – Bleeds
- Sleep Token – Even in Advance
- Racing Mount Pleasant – s/t
- Disiniblud – s/t
- Turnstile – Never Enough
- Human Pyramids – Thank You
- Jeff Tweedy – Twilight Override
- Not for Radio – Melt
- Dijon – Baby
Books
- The Sacrificers vol 3 – Comic – 2025
- Chris Whitaker – All the Colors of the Dark – Mystery – 2024
- Dete Meserve – The Memory Collectors – Scifi – 2025
- Chuck Tingle – Bury Your Gays – Horror – 2024
- John Steinbeck – The Pearl – Historical Fiction – 1947
- Alexander Boldizar – The Man Who Saw Seconds – Scifi – 2024
- She Rides Shotgun – Crime – 2017
- Kevin Hazzard – American Sirens – Nonfiction – 2022
- Arthur C Clarke – Rendevous with Rama – Scifi – 1973
- MJ Wassmer – Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend – Thriller – 2024
- Gareth Brown – The Book of Doors – Fantasy – 2024
- Richard Powers – Playground – Literary – 2024