Alan & Jono's Watching/Reading List: September 2025
Added 2025-09-24 15:00:20 +0000 UTCAlan:
Hello Heroes!
What I’m reading!
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Holy crap guys. This is a long book. I get the feeling that while I’m reading this series, this is all you’re going to see from me. For like, months. Anyway, I’m liking it. This first book is definitely bloated though. It’s weird, I enjoy basically every page as I read it, but after a good 30-60-minute reading session I’m like, did anything actually happen?
What I’m watching!
Weapons was unreal! Like… I think it was about something. But I’m not sure what. And also, I think I loved it, but maybe I just hate the world? Anyway, I hesitate to call it a masterpiece, but that’s sure what it felt like.
What I’m playing!
Sail Forth. It’s a delightful little indie game. I’m sailing around occasionally fighting pirates. Still don’t really know if there is a way to complete this game, or if the world just keeps expanding infinitely. Still fun though!
Transport Fever 2. The announcement of the third game made we want to play this one again. It’s still nerdy fun.
Watch Movies! (And television, and read books, and play video games)
Jono:
Hello everybody! How is it almost October already? This month I've largely been enjoying classic movies back on the big screen. Toy Story, Hamilton, Jaws, Apollo 13, and The Lord of the Rings have all been nostalgic theater rewatches for me. All of them hit harder at the movies instead of at home. I noticed so many background and design details in Toy Story. Hamilton with theater sound was amazing. Jaws is even more exciting, and Apollo 13 is so much more moving (great cast and great James Horner score). Also, extended Lord of the Rings in theaters with my kids. What more need I say? The best there is.
At home I watched season 2 of Wednesday on Netflix. A fun (if slow) first half gave way to a very satisfying second half. This series is Tim Burton's best work in years.
Getting ready for spooky season, so I plan to read Bram Stoker's Dracula once we finish our CT shoot this week!
What have you all been watching and reading?
Comments
Just started Severance. I’ve been wanting to watch for year so I’m excited.
Jessie B
2025-09-26 18:25:39 +0000 UTCI've been reading Absolute comics (DC) and having a blast. and I watched The Long Walk in theatres and cried my eyes out haha
simdoodles
2025-09-25 08:13:31 +0000 UTCJust got caught up with the stormlight archive series and let me say ur in for a crazy ride. One of my favorite series and it only gets better from here
Oscar Cervantes
2025-09-25 07:18:31 +0000 UTCBooks: I'll have to pick up the Sanderson series again to read along with you. I am 3/4 of the way through the first one and felt the same way. I have the next few books in the series but haven't touched them It was disappointing as I loved his other books and voraciously devoured them. I look forward to hearing if the next books are more gripping! I'm currently in the second of four Locked Tomb 'trilogy,' Harrow the Ninth. The first was AMAZING! I recommend it if you like Clue and want to read in the "haunted house" + whodonit(Knives Out) genre. Movies: Outside of rewatching the stuff y'all do episodes on, we watched KPOP Demon Hunters in theaters and the sing along event was so fun! I wish they did something similar for Encanto and the like. We loved All the President's Men! It was slower but fantastic. Bad Guys 2 was okay, and felt like the last quarter to a third was rushed and brushed the stakes under the rug. Naked Gun was fun! Small Things Like These was...interesting. I wish it did a The Big Short ending better describing the futility of what was(n't) "overcome," and shared where Ireland is societally now. Reading the extent of the generations of trauma that occurred and the non-justice brought to the perpetrators was quite disheartening as they're still at the helm. The tiny paragraph didn't really convey how widespread and ignrained it was to just look away. I'm being quite vague because you're supposed to discover with Cillian Murphy's character the sinister events that take place in this small quiet town. Lord of the Rings is evergreen for me, and I do a yearly rewatch of the Extended Editions on my birthday. Y'alls's videos are a nice companion [to the ritual]! I cannot handle scary stuff, the most scary I can handle was Midnight Mass. The "scariest" movie I watched was the Witch, and that fucked me up as my group watched it in A FRICKIN' CABIN IN THE WOODS. I am slowly getting through 28 Years Later as that is shout so suffocatingly, I'm always terrified something is going to pop out of the corner of the frame. I'm glad Weapons is being praised, I'm always happy when a new movie/show/property does well! I did see that there was a prequel coming out? What do y'all think of that? Shows: We got around to watching the Offer and holy cow that was gripping. We're 4 episodes in to Alien Earth and it's just my jam. It feels contrived. I did see an article praising a later episode, but I can't tell if the slog would be worth getting through to see it. Black Doves was phenomenal! Games: I've been playing Marvel Rivals competitively and our team organically randomly connected with a stunt person for the MCU and other things! We're planning an in-person meet to do a long weekend LAN party, play boardgames, and watch movies with our new group! I am terrible at Silk Song, but am itching to get back to Hades 2 when 1.0 comes out tomorrow! I also have Mass Effect Legendary Edition on the backburner after I get through Clair Obscur, which are all heavily modded. I look forward to tomorrow's video on a Quiet Place! The sound design is the most distressing and claustrophobic(in a great way) I've ever felt from a movie.
Gobbling Queen
2025-09-24 19:21:16 +0000 UTCFall TV starting, and Dancing With the Stars has sucked me back in for the first time in years, plus High Potential started back up (yay!). Rewatching Matlock season 1 in preparation for season 2. And The Great British Baking Show is back too! So many good ongoing shows. Read a ton more T. Kingfisher - Saint of Steel series, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, and the Clocktaur War duology. Highly recommend The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei and Still the Sun by Charlie Holmberg! Discovered Mimi Matthews through the Belles of London series, and finally got ahold of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna. A good reading month!
Lydia Hartzler
2025-09-24 18:57:12 +0000 UTC
