Larry's Faves: 2025 Movies

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Bad year for movies. Or a bad year for me seeing movies. Award season rules push studios to cram releases at year’s end, and it's hard to keep up. I will catch up with films I missed in Jan-March.

My list, ranked, with microreviews:

1. One Battle After Another: Brilliant, has a tragic flaw 2. Sinners: Juke Joint Cinema 3. Pavements: Larry’s100 Review 4. Weapons: Campy, creepy, freaky 5. Baltimorons: Larry’s100 Review 6. The Ballad of Wallis Island: Tim Key is brilliant 7. KPop Demon Hunters: Trust the phenom 8. John Candy: I Like Me: Sadder than you’d think 9. Fantastic Four: Didn’t suck 10. Nonnas: More sweet than savory

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#002279 – 25 de Agosto de 2025

A tarde de fim de Dezembro está gelada, o pôr-do-sol é bonito, as ondas óptimas. Os surfistas na água não conseguem escutar este tipo na mesa em frente à minha que destila teorias de conspiração sobre os Estados Unidos, o Musk, o Trump e os nazis e experiências secretas numa ilha perto de Nova Iorque. A mulher em silêncio é interlocutora silenciosa, apenas rindo de vez em quando, incentivando o monólogo.

Larry's Faves: 2025 Television

Putting this list together, I was knocked out by how good television was in 2025. This list includes stone-cold classics like Andor, Black Mirror, and Hacks, while making room for the mind-bending genre work of Pluribus, The Eternaut, and Severance. Comedies came laughing back and were welcome against the darkness of both reality and fiction.

In 2025, television was balanced between shows that took me by surprise (The Studio) and high-quality comfort food (Abbott Elementary). We don’t know what awaits us, with more corporate consolidation and the storm clouds of AI, so I am savoring (most of) the shows below.

All the scripted shows I watched ranked, with microreviews, or links to Larrys100 reviews

1. Pluribus (Apple TV): Larry's 100 Reviews 2. Andor (Disney+): Two-season masterpiece 3. The Rehearsal (HBO): Rube Goldberg of social experiments 4. The Eternaut (Netflix): Larry's 100 Review 5. The Studio: (Apple TV) Fast-paced & meta AF 6. Shoresy (Hulu): I challenge you to find a show this sweet and filthy 7. Righteous Gemstones (HBO): Goodbye, sweet prince 8. Task (HBO): Existential dread with a water ice sidecar 9. The Lowdown (FX/Hulu):Pulp noir Gen X style 10. Slow Horses (Apple TV): Larry's 100 Review 11. Severance (Apple TV): Goat room for the win 12. Abbott Elementary (ABC): Ava is one of my favorite characters on TV 13. Hacks (HBO): Loved the Larry Sanders call backs 14. Mythic Quest (Apple TV): Poppy is one of my favorite characters on TV 15. Agatha All Along (Disney+): Witchy kitsch and great cast 16. Death By Lightning (Netflix): Who knew? 17. White Lotus (HBO): Ground Zero for the Year of Goggins 18. Gilded Age (HBO): No show has actors having fun like Gilded Age 19 Black Mirror (Netflix): Strong season for this institution 20. Fallout (Amazon): Cheating a bit, will straddle into 2026 21. Silo (Apple TV): Apple is the real SciFi channel 22 North of North (Netflix) A funny, smart, sexy show set near the Arctic. 23. The Paper (Peacock): Better than I expected, strong ensemble 24. American Primeval (Netflix): Gritty westerns are always appreciated 25. The Bear (FX/Hulu): Overhyped mess, Carmy is annoying 26. Stranger Things (Netflix): Larry's 100 Review 27. Last of Us (HBO): The last episode was a horrible hour of TV 28. Murderbot (Apple TV): Stuff to like, but got tedious. 29. The Four Seasons (Netflix): Catnip for almost old people 30. The Witcher (Netflix): I miss Henry Cavill 31. King & Conquer (Amazon): This was conceived in a lab just for me, but it sucked

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JOURNAL 30 décembre 2025 #auberge

Alors comme on est pas habituées à ces pratiques, on a demandé à mon frère de mettre ses experts sur le coup de notre rêve de reprendre l'auberge. Lui il a toujours pensé que c'était une folie, mais il a joué le jeu comme si c'était pour lui. Alors il y a plusieurs points essentiels. Bien sûr on peut acheter les bâtiments du vivant de m et p, mais on peut pas avoir la licence de restauration parce que c’est une licence de 1947 qui a été donnée aux établissements familiaux qui existaient depuis x années avant. Elle est transmissibles aux descendants, enfants, neveux et nièces cousins etc. à condition qu'ils aient un lien de parenté mais elle peut pas être vendue car elle a été donnée c’est un régime spécial destiné uniquement aux établissements traditionnels anciens. Donc il nous faudrait obtenir une nouvelle licence. Et voilà le point merdique : si un quelconque héritier se pointe un jour et dit moi je prends la licence familiale, au revoir neko et A il sera prioritaire. La loi japonaise est très protectrice des droits familiaux et professionnels. Pour la même raison si un héritier en ligne directe, donc enfants, petits-enfants, arrière etc. décide d'attaquer la vente il a de fortes chances de gagner, il y a plein d’angles d'attaque possible : le montant, l'influence sur des gens très âgés, le fait qu'une des acheteuses est une étrangère etc. 80 % de chances que le tribunal nous donne tort. Pour assurer notre coup il faudrait l'accord de la fille de m et p mais aussi des petites-filles qui signeraient une renonciation au droit de licence et à toute réclamation sur la vente. En plus comme le Japon ne reconnaît pas le mariage entre femmes, tout contrat devra être établi à nos deux noms pour qu'on ait les mêmes droits sur les bâtiments et la nouvelle licence et badaboum A n'a pas encore le statut de résidente donc si son visa était annulé (avec la dingue au pouvoir c'est pas du tout impossible) alors au revoir princesse. Même si M et P nous adoptaient, solution extrême ça poserait encore un problème pour A. : deviendrait-elle Japonaise du même coup ? malheureusement la question ne semble pas tranchée. Tout cumulé la possibilité de réussite à moyen terme du projet est proche de 0% sans parler des pertes financières dont je vous ferai pas un exposé c’est pas passionnant. Il y a en plus pour tout arranger des lois locales régionales qui sont ce qu'elles sont mais qui vont pas dans notre sens et qui me considèrent moi même comme étrangère, étant originaire du kanto. Et la loi non écrite la plus importante du japon et qui chapeaute toutes les autres et qui dit Ça Ne Se Fait Pas ça vous fait rire mais c’est ça mon pays C’est comme ça par exemple que des milliers de postes dans les grandes entreprises je dis bien des milliers sont occupés par des gens qui arrivent le matin et repartent le soir sans avoir strictement rien fait ou presque : on peut pas les virer parce que “ça ne se fait pas”, aucune considération économique ne peut avoir raison là-dessus. C’est dingo, hein ? C'est le Japon.

Alors soit on trouve l'adresse de la fille de m et p et celles des deux petites filles soit on abandonne définitivement. Elles sont vivantes car elles sont toujours mentionnées sur le livret familial mais personne ne sait ce qu'elles sont devenues. La fille a dans les 70 ans et les deux petites-filles un peu plus âgées que nous 38 et 40 c’est tout ce qu'on sait. Environ 100 000 Japonais disparaissent chaque année, inutile de dire que c’est pas la peine de s'adresser à la police pour les trouver.

Alors pfffff notre rêve est parti emporté par le vent 🌬️ On est allées faire une grande marche sous la neige en silence pour digérer ça ❄️❄️❄️ merci à vous de vous être fait du souci pour nous, ça ira mieux demain Si le chasse-neige dégage la route on devra accueillir 6 pensionnaires, il faudra être souriantes comme des vraies Japonaises bien dressées.

Umberto Eco said that the Internet has given idiots the right to speak to a legion of idiots. But long before the Internet, we already had fireworks to prove that this legion was not only there: it was organized and capable of causing very real harm.

No algorithms are needed to amplify hate or stupidity. This legion of idiots terrorizes animals, starts fires and injures thousands of people, sometimes killing them, while overloading hospitals, police forces and fire services.

In places like Berlin, entire neighborhoods have turned into war zones where it is no longer safe to walk down the street. An idiot holding a firework enjoys the same rights as someone who just wants to take a peaceful walk and celebrate New Year’s Eve with their family.

That isn’t freedom. It's collective irresponsibility masquerading as tradition.

#Eco #Fireworks #Berlin #Germany #Idiocy #SocialMedia

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2025 was the year I told myself I would become a movie guy. I wasn't a big movie watcher before this year and as a result I have significant gaps in movie history and knowledge. I haven't seen a lot of the classics and quintessential 21st century movies. So, I buckled down and started watching as many movies as I could.

As of writing this I've watched 108 movies this year. Most of them are not movies I've watched already, and they range from new releases to movies from the 50's. There was no real rhyme or reason to which movies I chose to watch. Some were from recommendations from friends, family, and the internet (specifically the movie podcasts The Big Picture and The Rewatchables), and other choices were from randomly flipping through Tubi when I had some time to kill.

There are still so many movies I have to watch, ones that most people can't believe I still haven't seen, but I'll get through 100 more in 2026, and so on and so on.

But in this post I just want to talk about my favourite movies released in 2025.

2025 Movie Lists

My top 5 movies of 2025, in no particular order:

• One Battle After Another
• Weapons
• Sinners
• 28 Years Later
• Marty Supreme

I enjoyed all these movies immensely. With every single movie on this list I left the theatre thinking about the movie for days and weeks after, enthusiastically discussing them with friends and family and recommending them to anyone I met. I saw Sinners twice this year, once in IMAX and again in 70mm at the Revue Cinema. That movie took my breath away every time I watched it. One Battle After Another, Weapons, and 28 Years Later, were the movies that stuck in my brain the most this year. I would remember scenes or lines from them and that would lead me down a rabbit hole thinking about the grander themes of the movies or how beautifully they were shot. Weapons and Marty Supreme were two movies that had me on the edge of my seat the entire movie, with loads of laugh-out-loud moments immediately followed by tension, or in the case of Weapons, a scare. I watched all these movies in theatres and I'm so glad I did. KEEP THEATRES ALIVE!

Other movies I thoroughly enjoyed:

• Eddington
• Black Bag
• The Shrouds
• Wake Up Dead Man
• The Phoenician Scheme
• F1
• Superman
• Companion
• Materialists

Of the superhero movies released this year that I saw, Superman was my favourite. It was fun and funny, and the action set-pieces were great. Companion is a low-key movie that I feel more people need to watch. It's very well-written and a fun thriller with good acting mixed in. The Shrouds I watched in a theatre that had two other people in it and, as with a lot of Cronenberg movies, I left the movie trying to parse what I had just watched. I watched Eddington when I got home a little drunk and that was one of the most stressful experiences I've ever had watching a movie, but man was that movie incredible.

I could write more about each movie in particular but I think I'll just leave it at that. If you're reading this and you haven't seen some of the movies on this list, I definitely recommend renting them, or if you get the chance watch them in a theatre. I really enjoyed a lot of movies that came out this year, and I only saw a fraction of them. I'll probably have more favourites from this year that I'll catch-up on in 2026.

Here's to 100 more movies in 2026!

In Summary: * Ready to wrap up a good Monday, time spent putting things back in order after the wedding weekend of a best friend of the daughter-in-law. It is indeed good to be back home.

Prayers, etc.: * My daily prayers

Health Metrics: * bw= 218.48 lbs. * bp= 142/88 (75)

Exercise: * kegel pelvic floor exercise, half squats, calf raises, wall push-ups

Diet: * 06:30 – 1 banana * 08:00 – small apple pastries * 11:30 – plate of sweet rice * 16:50 – plate of pancit * 19:00 – pork, pancit, steak burger patties with mushroom sauce, Mexican wedding cookies

Activities, Chores, etc.: * 05:00 – listen to local news talk radio * 06:30 – read, pray, follow news reports from various sources, surf the socials, nap * 08:50 – bank accounts activity monitored * 13:00 – listening to the JLab Birmingham Bowl: Georgia Southern Eagles vs Appalachian State Mountaineers, An NCAA college football game broadcast live by the Appalachian State Sports Network. * 14:20 – start my weekly laundry * 16:10 – And the Georgia Southern Eagles have just won the JLab Birmingham Bowl, 29 to 10. * 16:15 – Listening now to B97 – The Home for IU Women's Basketball ahead of tonight's early NCAA women's basketball game between the Minnesota Golden Gophers and my Indiana Hoosiers. Yes, of course I'll try to stay here for the radio call of the game. * 18:45 – Minnesota gets the win over the Hoosiers, score is 71 to 48. * 19:00 – dinner guests arrived, then ... * 20:15 – ... left early because they had to catch an early flight tomorrow. * 20:30 – time now to wrap up the night prayers, and shut things down in this joint.

Chess: * 13:30 – moved in all pending CC games