Steven Erikson - The God Is Not Willing

Sickbed re-reading. (previously)

Dylan Marlowe - Mid-Twenties Crisis

Basically, there's the ones that anthem it up with emo-lite electric guitars and they're mostly my favourites (especially "Heaven's Sake" and "Hungover in a Deer Stand", the latter a genuinely excellent song I think), the more country-rock radio-ish ones that are mostly a bit too generic-sounding and in some cases offputtingly unironically down-home for me (although "Heart Brakes" is good), and the slower ones (all boring).

A Complete Unknown

I don't know, should it have been a surprise that the soundtrack and the songs were such a large part of why this was so engaging? James Mangold has form with musical films - Walk the Line was strikingly watchable - and this one's got Chalamet front and centre. Bob Dylan means something to me, but not in a way that I'm protective about - a good starting orientation for a movie about him (it focuses on the few years at the start of his career, but in a way that implicitly makes an argument about who he is at large). Anyhow I don't think A Complete Unknown is anything special but I liked it - for its subject, its music, its central performance, and the garnish of Edward Norton as Pete Seeger and Elle Fanning as Sylvie.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

A slept-on classic it isn't, but it's winning enough even on a rewatch. (previously)

Jennifer's Body

Yes it's a bit messy but the core of what Jennifer's Body has to say about gender and power is clear enough, and the black comedy / high school fizz take it a fair way.

Black Hawk Down

Remains as tense and gritty as ever, for all its obviously problematic elements.

Predator: Killer of Killers

The funnest part of this is the different historical settings, and it being animated worked well enough. The way it brought them all together at the end was kind of predictable and lacked a real epic feel though.