2024 in review

If I'm doing my top books of 2024, do they have to have been released in 2024? If so, it's gonna be a short list. Movies might be a bit easier I guess but do I split it into stuff that came out this year and stuff that didn't.

Think I'll just go with the best things I watched/read/played/listened to for the first time this year. If it came out this year, great. If it didn't, also great.

Movies

Got stuck into a few movies earlier in the year thanks to a long stretch on paternity leave (yay baby cinema screenings). Dried up a little later in the year but usually see a bit of a boost when the Oscar noms get released.

• Theater Camp
• How to Have Sex
• The Holdovers
• Perfect Days
• Dune: Part Two
• Challengers
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• The Iron Claw
• Kneecap
• Alien: Romulus

Books

Read more this year than most years but still barely enough to have a top ten. I'll just leave a few highlights.

• The Bee Sting
• Atonement
• Kite Runner
• Small Things Like These
• Intermezzo

TV Shows

Do you still call them TV shows? Or series? Great year! Finding that these are the easiest to stay current with.

• The Bear
• X-Men '97
• Baby Reindeer
• Mr & Mrs Smith
• Nobody Wants This
• Colin From Accounts
• Presumed Innocent
• Bad Sisters

Music

Still a bunch I need to listen to but these are the ones that have grabbed me so far this year.

• Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend
• A La Sala by Khruangbin
• Poetry by Dehd
• Saviors by Green Day
• Bando Stone and The New World by Childish Gambino
• Two Star & The Dream Police by Mk.gee
• All Hell by Los Campesinos!
• Songs of a Lost World by The Cure
• Mahashmashana by Father John Misty

Could add sections for gaming and podcasts down here but it's late enough on the 31st. I'll be more organised in 2025. Might also give this a second pass and add more links to useful places.