Film and Book Tally 2025

Boy, was this year garbage or what? With politics going into the toilet, big names dropping like flies, and everything being on figurative and literal fire, I think it's safe to say we're all glad to move on from 2025.

Anyway, onto the tally!

1. Child's Play (1988, dir. Tom Holland)
2. Street Smart (1987, dir. Jerry Schatzberg)
3. The Last Seduction (1994, dir. John Dahl)
4. Passion Fish (1995, dir. John Sayles)
5. Road House (1989, dir. Rowdy Herrington)
6. Party Girl (1995, dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer)
7. The Assassination Bureau (1969, dir. Basil Dearden)
8. What's Love Got to Do with It (1993, dir. Brian Gibson)
9. Hopscotch (1980, dir. Ronald Neame)
10. Blue Sky (1994, dir. Tony Richardson)
11. Housekeeping (1987, dir. Bill Forsyth)
12. Spontaneous Combustion (1990, dir. Tobe Hooper)
13. At Close Range (1986, dir. James Foley)
14. Mortuary (1982, dir. Howard Avedis)
15. Trapeze (1956, dir. Carol Reed)
16. The In-Laws (1979, dir. Arthur Hiller)
17. Fun with Dick and Jane (1977, dir. Ted Kotcheff)
18. Mississippi Burning (1988, dir. Alan Parker)

And onto the books!

1. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
2. The Clementine Complex by Bob Mortimer

Yeah, not an impressive tally, I know. But in my defense, I had shifted to working on my creative writing on top of attending to (not all that serious) health issues in the last quarter. (I also got really into playing Palia so that ate up a lot fo my time.) So will I partake in more in the coming year? I can't say for certain, but I'll try to inch it up a little.