Friday, 20 December 2024

Films

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
[#99 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]
"What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...?" 2024 #12

Fiction

A Book for Christmas by Selma Lagerlöf
The Princess of Babylon (translated by Peter Graves)
The Rat Trap (translated by Linda Schenck)
In Nazareth (translated by Peter Graves)
Redbreast (translated by Sarah Death)

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas by Derrick Belanger
December 20th: The Bordello Endemic (Conclusion)

Comics

Absolute Batman #2 by Scott Snyder & Nick Dragotta

Videos

Critical Role
A Daggerheart Critmas Story

CR's "Christmas special" is this entirely standalone live one-shot — which means I've actually been able to watch it rather than catch up on years of other stuff first. Hurrah!

Anyway, this was really good fun; even more so than the Session Zero led me to expect (and I enjoyed that too). It comes over like a great '80s Christmas/fantasy movie... or probably more like a modern '80s-set throwback-style Christmas/fantasy movie. Either way, it would've been a pretty fun movie, but with that not existing, it's super entertaining as what it is.

[Watch it (again) if you're a Member on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon. (Free to non-members on YouTube from Monday.)]