One-Liner Film Reviews for 2024

Most years on New Year's Day I try to remember everything I watched over the year for a round-up, but typically forget most of them. This year I kept track!!  (Next year I'll track my reading, too, but I mainly do that here - although I've definitely read more than eight books this year. I think I'm in the middle of more than eight books right now!) I'll divide the into categories of shows and films, but I tend to binge watch shows in a sitting, so, honestly, I had to look up a few to see which category it fit! They're more or less in the order I watched them, but with ratings out of 4, and I highlighted my top 5 favourites:

Save David Tennant From Invasion!!

 There are lots of horrific things going on in this world. Most are out of our control. One is not.

There's nothing I can do about the atrocities happening between Hamas and Israel and Palestine. I can barely look at it. I've sent texts of support to friends who are Jewish or Muslim because you can guarantee some of that hate will be capitalized on here towards both groups. And there's also very little I can do, personally, to affect the global changes coming from increased warming of our climate. I don't drive much or ever use a drier, and I eat low on the food chain. But I produced three kids, one of whom drives a block away to see friends, eats meat a couple of times a day, and is pumped to have just moved out somewhere with a washer and drier, so he can do laundry pretty much as soon as he wears something with no concern for conserving water or energy. 

Sorry about that, world. I tried my very best, but there's only so much we can do.

But my kids always wear a mask inside public buildings. Wearing masks does have an effect on directly reducing the chance of transmitting a virus that is disabling people in ways they don't even notice. Before you think, "If they don't notice, then what's the big deal?" be aware that Covid affects the brain with dementia-like symptoms causing people to be suddenly confused and/or irrationally angry without warning. Have you noticed people driving worse than ever on the street??  

Justin Lee recently wrote about our collective apathy:

"When it was like 40,000 covid deaths to 80,000, we were like, 'Oh no.' Then it hit 100,000 to 200,000; we were like 'Uh oh, this is terrible.' But there was a point we closed our eyes, as we started to reach 400 to 500,000 covid deaths, we started to comfort ourselves. Our 'adaptation' came in the form of getting used to death. Our sensitive little empathy meters all fried into oblivion. We hit the million, 1,000,000+ covid deaths, and arbitrarily decided, 'Phew! Glad that's over!' as we keep losing and disabling people. Now, nobody can fathom the scale of our destruction. Mythology and excuses are soothing, like ducks who let the pandemic roll off our backs, no moments of silence, no 'never forget,' just a belligerence to fighting against our nemesis. That's how we've adapted."

But one thing just might save the day: Our love of celebrities!