I’ll stop you right there and tell you that this is not a post about love. When Harry Met Sally has, definitively, the best New Year’s Eve scene in all of cinematic history, which is why it wins the title of my New Year’s post. I figured I would take this opportunity to reflect on this past year and share the top ten movies and books of this past year.

Here we go.

Top 10 (Released in 2020) Movies

  1. The Vast of Night

  2. Mank

  3. Da 5 Bloods

  4. The Invisible Man

  5. Palm Springs

  6. The Way Back (if only because they let Affleck absolutely COOK in this)

  7. Tenet

  8. The Devil All the Time (if only for Robert Pattinson’s hilarious accent)

  9. The Gentlemen

  10. I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Top 25 New To Me Movies (couldn’t narrow this down, sorry) ((not really sorry)) (((also not in any order)))

  1. Rounders (1998)

  2. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

  3. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

  4. About Time (2013)

  5. The Social Network (2010)

  6. Good Time (2017)

  7. The Naked Gun (1988)

  8. Moneyball (2012)

  9. Mystic River (2003)

  10. Hell or High Water (2016)

  11. The Stranger (1946)

  12. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

  13. Shutter Island (2010)

  14. Prisoners (2013)

  15. Tropic Thunder (2008)

  16. The Master (2012)

  17. Psycho (1960)

  18. 12 Angry Men (1957)

  19. Warrior (2011)

  20. Alien (1979)

  21. Being John Malkovich (1999)

  22. Jaws (1975)

  23. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

  24. Fruitvale Station (2013)

  25. V for Vendetta (2005)

Top 10 Books I Read in 2020

  1. Red Rising by Pierce Brown (honestly this whole series is up there for me)

  2. A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken

  3. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin du Mez

  4. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  5. The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken

  6. Unsettling Truths by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah

  7. The Stranger by Albert Camus (no connection to the aforementioned film of the same name)

  8. Reaching Out by Henri Nouwen

  9. Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright

  10. What Men Live By by Leo Tolstoy

If you get to the end of this, thank you for caring. If not, thank you for reading anything I write at all! Let’s read and watch more together this year.

Cheers!

Cam

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