Best Movies of 2024

January 28, 2025

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Movies! 2024! Hurray! (CREDIT [Clockwise from Top Left): NEON; 20th Century Studios/Screenshot; Altered Innocence/Screenshot; Focus Features)

Happy 2025, movie lovers! But let’s not forget 2024 just yet. I know I haven’t. As per usual, I saw more than 100 new filmed adventures during the last trip around the Sun, and I enjoyed quite a few of them. I decided to include my top 14 flicks for my Best Of coverage this year, because that just happened to be the number that I was passionate enough about to announce to the world. So please read on, as I count down my Top 14 Movies of 2024 and reveal the story of how I fell in love with them.

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That’s Auntertaiment: What’s Jeff Watching? #15

March 31, 2024

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Has David Rasche ever met Peter Gabriel?

Book Me a Permanent Seat at the ‘Late Night with the Devil’!

March 26, 2024

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Welcome back! (CREDIT: IFC Films and Shudder)

Starring: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ingrid Torelli, Rhys Auteri, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Josh Quong Tart, Georgina Haig, Michael Ironside

Directors: Colin and Cameron Cairnes

Running Time: 93 Minutes

Rating: R

Release Date: March 22, 2024 (Theaters)

Here’s the deal: in the weeks leading up to Late Night with the Devil‘s release, I kept saying the title to the tune of Mötley Crüe’s “Shout at the Devil” in my head. But as that release date crept closer, I switched that rhythm to Van Halen’s “Runnin’ with the Devil.” And it’s remained that way since I’ve seen it. That’s a good sign!

So does that mean I would like to spend my own late night with Mr. Devil? Well, not literally. I try to go to bed by 10:00 PM these days! But if we could make it An Early Evening with the Devil, or even DVR the conversation and save it for The Morning After with the Devil, then let’s pull up a seat and say what we’ve got to say!

Grade: 83 out of 101 Christous

Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 3/22/24

March 22, 2024

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How’s your night been? (CREDIT: Adam White/IFC Films and Shudder)

Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.

Movies
–Immaculate (Theaters)
–Late Night with the Devil (Theaters)
–Luca (Theatrical Re-Release)

TV
–grown-ish Season 6 Part 2 Premiere (March 27 on Freeform) – Continuing the final season.

Music
-Gary Clark Jr., JPEG Raw
-Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood