My favorite media of 2025

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