Best of 2025

Wanted to collect some of my favorite new media, some of my favorite older media I discovered this year, just some of my favorite finds. Big new things that came into my life this year are NTS Radio, piracy, The New Yorker, Mina Le, webcrafting, and iPod modding!

2025 Movies

Materialists

Rental Family

Sentimental Value

Nouvelle Vague

Kpop Demon Hunters

Older Movies

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

Persepolis

Wall-E (rewatched and rediscovered a ton of Pixar movies this year)

The Incredibles 

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (shockingly good)

2025 Songs

Magic Mountain - Japanese Breakfast

Nettles - Ethel Cain

The Field - Blood Orange

Grand Prix - Nala Sinephro

Cross Your Mind - Shelly

Older Songs

Excalibur - Good Morning

Use Me - Liang Lawrence

Captain Was A Cow - Hana Stretton

Get It Together - Drake

Rocketman - Elton John

2025 Fresh Finds (cute bands)

shinyhunt

Tiny Habits

A Beacon School

Oklou

After

Books

Ruin and Rising

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Haunting of Hill House

Persepolis

Building Stories

Check em out!