2025: Year in Review (Going Out or Watching Stuff)

[tamaranth]

Everything is reviewed on this blog! (Sometimes rather cursorily.) Check out my monthlyculture tag.

Bracketed figures show range over the last 22 years [see the year-in-summary tag for my Cultural History since 2004].

Note: 'Best' is shorthand for 'not necessarily objectively good but I really enjoyed'.

Film (in cinema): 20 (4-21). Best three = Pillion, The Return, Thunderbolts*

Film (streamed): 32 (36-39 in the last 2 years). Best three that I hadn't already seen = KPop Demon Hunters, Official Secrets, Maria

Theatre (live): 20 (1-26). Best three = Elektra, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Born With Teeth

Theatre (streamed): 0 (38 in 2020, 16 in 2021, 8 in 2022, 0 in 2023). Must watch more NT@Home, even alone.

Concerts (classical): 9 (2-22). Best three = Dudamel, Volodos, Argerich.

Opera: 3 (0-10). Best three :) = Iphigenia in Tauris, Patience, The Magic Flute

Gigs: 5 (0-9). Best three = Patti Smith, Mitch Benn, Arcade Fire

Art: 6 (0-6) Best was probably Luxmuralis

Books: 211. Summarised here: reviews here.
Also in 2025: visited Belfast (Worldcon), Mallorca, Cambridge, Ludlow.

Comments

[muninnhuginn]

I keep saying I'm going to subscribe to NT@Home. There's a lot I'd like to watch, or watch again having schlepped out to the cinema first time round.