Yet another year is in the books, and while looking back it was as complicated as any other, the entire thing as a whole thankfully did not simply blow by. I got properly into Formula 1 and followed the whole season, moved jobs, made new friends, learned new skills, and finally succeeded in journalling every day for virtually the entire year.
As far as this site is concerned, it was a bit of a banner year. 2025 featured the highest sheer number of Vagrant Rant posts since 2016, when I was still writing regular individual movie reviews. More elusively, for the first time since 2014 – the last time I didn’t have a full-time job – this site had at least one post uploaded every single month! The arrival of a new Nintendo console certainly helped the output, as a lot of people sure were saying a lot of things about the Switch 2, and the ground for discourse was fertile for a good while there before things settled down.
In other relevant arenas, 2025 saw a relatively unassuming little Sony Animation film send a jolt of electricity through the K-Pop industry, and though it skipped the big screen thanks to the partnership of Netflix’s wildest dreams, a fleet of other pretty fantastic blockbusters made IMAX their ideal home in between plenty of anticipated follow-ups from acclaimed directors. There’s an awful lot to talk about, and we get started tomorrow.
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