It has become a tradition for me to put off writing these Annual Recaps approximately half the following year.
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2025 Annual Recap
Dan and Brian embark on a journey exploring the many movies about a man from a colonial force falling in love with a native and learning the “noble” ways of her culture,
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I Like Movies (2022)
“I like movies” might be the most harmless sentence in the English language.
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The Kid Detective (2020)
One mental exercise I sometimes play with certain actors and directors:
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Disclosure Day (2026)
I spent most of 2013 listening to Bruce Springsteen albums, and one thing I noticed is that his earliest records are confessional and immediate even when he’s inventing stories.
Dan and Brian catch up with neo-noir The Kid Detective, a longtime watchlist entry for Dan.
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Hokum (2026)
Hokum is what I like to call a line graph movie, by which I mean you could chart my engagement with it as a literal line graph, peaks and valleys neatly labeled.
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Smile 2 (2024)
Let me get my one real gripe out of the way up front, because it’s just about the only complaint I’ve got.
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GOAT (2026)
It is not basketball.
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Faces of Death (2026)
The biggest movie story going right now is youth slaying a giant.