Things Seen And Read in 2024 : Movies and Books Edition

Going to close out my 2024 coverage on this Friday, January 3rd with just a list of movies seen and books read. We really dig into 2025 next week, but for now I’m rounding out all the movies and books I’ve enjoyed this past year. Nothing fancy, just lists. More lists and lists and Liszts and lists. No lisps, though.

In no particular order, but if it’s on here I enjoyed it tremendously. And yes, Longlegs is probably my favorite movie of 2024. I also really loved I Saw The TV Glow, Cuckoo, Adam Sandler : Love You, It’s What’s Inside, V/H/S Beyond, Fall Guy, Nosferatu, Azrael, and Oddity. So I guess those would make my top 10.

Movies:

1. Longlegs
2. Cuckoo
3. It’s What’s Inside
4. Stream
5. Terrifier 3
6. V/H/S Beyond
7. Azrael
8. Smile 2
9. Oddity
10. In A Violent Nature
11. Adam Sandler : Love You
12. Kinds of Kindness
13. I Saw The TV Glow
14. Tarot
15. Civil War
16. Deadpool VS Wolverine
17. A Quiet Place : Day One
18. Drive-Away Dolls
19. The Deliverance
20. Arcadian
21. Deer Camp ’86
22. Fall Guy
23. Nosferatu
24. Black Cab
25. Will & Harper
26. Late Night With The Devil

I got through a lot of books, but I didn’t make a list of what I read this year(like I have the last two years), so my old-ish brain might not have remembered them all. But here’s what I can remember(I re-read and caught up on a lot of Stephen King that I never got around to reading.)

I’m hoping 2025 will be a lot more biographies, independent horror, and memoirs. Just started Geddy Lee’s My Effin’ Life and so far I’m loving it.

1. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
2. Needful Things by Stephen King
3. Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
4. The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
5. The Shining by Stephen King
6. Christine by Stephen King
7. On Writing by Stephen King
8. A Girl In A Band : A Memoir by Kim Gordon
9. The Big Love : Life & Death with Bill Evans by Laurie Verchomin
10. Mouth by Joshua Hull
11. The Troop by Nick Cutter
12. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
13. The Day Of The Door by Laurel Hightower

Compared to 2023 this seems pretty sparse(25 books read in 2023!), but I got through a lot of other things like anxiety, existential dread, sadness, and just goofy fun!

Goodbye 2024, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!