Recommendations
A running ledger of recommendations including books, movies, music, video games, sustenance, and the rest. Annotated, opinionated, and updated when something earns more space, for better and for worse.
· 11 of 37 items · 5 stars · sunday funday · Reset
| Item | Type | Year | Rating | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Nolan | Movie | 2026 | ★★★★★ | An epic by modern and ancient standards. |
| Charlie Brooker | Movie | 2025 | ★★★★★ | Faux-shoshin mockumentary. Perfectly executed delivery on asking life's greatest questions. |
| Mike Makowsky | TV Series | 2025 | ★★★★★ | Garfield's improbable rise and his assassin's stranger arc. Macfadyen, Shannon, and Offerman at full tilt. |
| John Wilson | TV Series | 2020 | ★★★★★ | A New Yorker's archive of footage rebuilt as quasi-poetry about scaffolding, wine, and being alive. |
| Bill Watterson | Book | 1995 | ★★★★★ | Perhaps the most formative work in my reading life. This is Bill Watterson distilling the universe into a teacup. |
| Goichi Suda | Video Game | 2025 | ★★★★★ | Another fever dream from Suda51 and Grasshopper with combat that suits simple sensibilities packaged in an ultraviolent revenge noir. |
| Charles Yu | TV Series | 2024 | ★★★★★ | Tropes deployed expertly to tell something stranger than your typical fare. a season-one ending that refuses to settle |
| Susanna Clarke | Book | 2020 | ★★★★★ | A novel that finds my exact wavelength. |
| Bill Watterson · John Kascht | Book | 2023 | ★★★★★ | Watterson and Kascht give adults the fable they didn't know they needed. |
| James Carbutt · Will Todd | Video Game | 2024 | ★★★★★ | An interactive movie of a game — a two-hour visual delight by Coal Supper, voiced by Matt Berry. |
| Dan Erickson | TV Series | 2022 | ★★★★★ | Excellent but the pedestal it is being held on (and potentially chasing) should be knocked down to size. |