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158: 2024 Year End Review

January 21, 2025·1 hr 54 min·5 clips

Nosferatu is "fucking great" and Lily Rose Depp "knocked it out of the park."

1. Fandomonious: A Pop Culture Podcast episode 158 is a 2024 year-end review centered on movies the hosts saw during the year. 2. The hosts are Ian and his co-host, who trade the movie coverage back and forth and keep the discussion rooted in what they actually watched. 3. The episode asks which 2024 movies were worth keeping on a favorites list, instead of forcing a rigid top ten. 4. They start with Nosferatu, which Ian saw on New Year's Eve and immediately calls "fucking great." 5. They compare Robert Eggers’ visual style in Nosferatu to The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman. 6. The hosts say Nosferatu uses blue-gray colors, heavy overcast light, and shadows that feel like "its own character." 7. They move from Nosferatu into a broader 2024 list that includes Alien Romulus, Late Night with the Devil, and The Substance. 8. Ian says Alien Romulus is his "movie of the year" and says he has watched it five times on Blu-ray. 9. The conversation also names Wicked, Gladiator 2, Heretic, Carry On, and The Wild Robot. 10. They note that some titles, including The Substance and Nosferatu, were hard to catch in theaters because release windows felt short. 11. Ian says Lily Rose Depp "knocked it out of the park" in Nosferatu and that the movie was hers. 12. They describe Bill Skarsgård as completely unrecognizable as Count Orlok. 13. The hosts say Nosferatu leans into old-school vampire sexuality and "the lust and the luring" of the vampire gaze. 14. They also mention a TikTok sound built from the film’s dialogue and a prop image that became a spoiler elsewhere online. 15. The ranking discussion gets practical when they talk about how hard it is to order favorite movies from 1 to 10. 16. Ian says 2024 had him "balls deep in the horror genre," with at least eight horror films in a possible top ten. 17. The episode keeps a loose, conversational pace with Christmas-break detours about Minecraft, inflatable forts, and posters on bedroom walls. 18. The hosts sound like longtime friends comparing notes, arguing about release dates, and pausing for jokes and side stories. 19. Listeners who want 2024 horror and genre movie opinions will get the most out of it. 20. Listeners looking for a tightly edited, spoiler-free ranked list may skip it.

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A loose year-end movie chat that feels like a real catch-up.

Fandomonious settles into a loose year-end catch-up, with holiday chatter, Smarties mishaps, and a few technical snags setting the tone for a run through 2024 titles. The best part is how plainspoken it stays.

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If you want a holiday-break movie catch-up, this is your lane.

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