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Movies and Books: 2025

Here we are, a year later, with everything seen and read, to the best of my knowledge. Always a few regrets at the end of the day, but over all, a lot of excellent choices.

Movies:

  1. Queer
  2. Wicked
  3. Babygirl
  4. The Brutalist
  5. The Room Next Door
  6. A Real Pain
  7. Serious People
  8. Sundance Film Festival: Midnight Short Film Program 2025 [The Things We Keep, Bunnyhood, Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting, Swollen, Jesus 2, Platanero]
  9. Atropia
  10. Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)
  11. Plainclothes
  12. Sinners
  13. Secret Mall Apartment
  14. Ticket of No Return
  15. Pink Narcissus
  16. The Wedding Banquet
  17. A Nice Indian Boy
  18. Superman
  19. The Phoenician Scheme
  20. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
  21. Companion
  22. Downton Abbey: The New Era
  23. Twinless
  24. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
  25. The Blue Trail
  26. Corina
  27. Sirat
  28. The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
  29. Weapons
  30. Cléo From 5 to 7
  31. One Battle After Another
  32. Bugonia
  33. KPop Demon Hunters
  34. Sentimental Value
  35. Jay Kelly
  36. La Grazia
  37. Sound of Falling
  38. A Private Life
  39. Below the Clouds

Plays/Performances:

  1. Kylie Minogue: The Tension Tour
  2. MountainTop Masterworks I: Sound Tapestries: Bach, Haydn, Ravel, & Friends
  3. Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern
  4. The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show

Books and Graphic Novels:

  1. I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop
  2. Tokyo These Days Vol. 1 by Taiyo Matsumoto
  3. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 21 by Fumi Yoshinaga
  4. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui
  5. The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
  6. Tokyo These Days Vol. 2 by Taiyo Matsumoto
  7. Mao Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
  8. Mao Vol. 2 by Rumiko Takahashi
  9. Mao Vol. 3 by Rumiko Takahashi
  10. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
  11. The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
  12. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 2 by Ryoko Kui
  13. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 3 by Ryoko Kui
  14. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 4 by Ryoko Kui
  15. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 5 by Ryoko Kui
  16. The Dog Sitter Detective Plays Dead by Antony Johnston
  17. The Question Omnibus Vol. 1 by Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan
  18. The Power Fantasy Vol. 1: The Superpowers by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard
  19. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 6 by Ryoko Kui
  20. Night Fever by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
  21. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Vol. 12 by Kanehito Yamanda and Tsukasa Abe
  22. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Vol. 13 by Kanehito Yamanda and Tsukasa Abe
  23. To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
  24. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 7 by Ryoko Kui
  25. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 8 by Ryoko Kui
  26. What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 22 by Fumi Yoshinaga
  27. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  28. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 9 by Ryoko Kui
  29. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 10 by Ryoko Kui
  30. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 11 by Ryoko Kui
  31. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane
  32. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 12 by Ryoko Kui
  33. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 13 by Ryoko Kui
  34. Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 14 by Ryoko Kui
  35. Can You Solve the Murder?: An Interactive Crime Novel by Antony Johnston
  36. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
  37. Tokyo These Days Vol. 3 by Taiyo Matsumoto
  38. Spent by Alison Bechdel
  39. One-Star Squadron by Mark Russell and Steve Lieber
  40. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
  41. Mazebook by Jeff Lemire
  42. Geiger Vol. 1 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank
  43. The Power Fantasy Vol. 2: Mutually Reassuring Destruction by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard
  44. The Overlook Murder by Patrick Kelly
  45. Geiger Vol. 2 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank
  46. Geiger Vol. 3 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank
  47. Redcoat Vol. 1 by Geoff Johns and Bryan Hitch
  48. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
  49. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  50. Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood by Lonnie Mann and Ryan Gatts
  51. Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story: The Graphic Novel by Edmund White, Brian Alessandro, and Igor Karash
  52. Witch King by Martha Wells
  53. Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
  54. Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
  55. The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
  56. Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
  57. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  58. DC Finest: Plastic Man: The Origin of Plastic Man by Jack Cole
  59. The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail by Antony Johnson
  60. What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

Previous Years’ Tallies: