The Intake

Written By Scott williams

The Intake of the films, TV, books and theater that shaped my 2025

TV, Film 2025

  1. Conclave

  2. Say Nothing

  3. The Agency

  4. Blackfish

  5. American Primeval

  6. Severance

  7. Sophie‘s Choice

  8. I Am Tim

  9. The Gorge

  10. The Brutalist

  11. Rocky

  12. Hoosiers

  13. House of Cards

  14. Martha

  15. Six Nations Full Contact 

  16. Full Swing

  17. Vietnam: The War That Changed America

  18. Deli Boys

  19. Adolescence

  20. Bridge of Spies

  21. Wolf Hall

  22. Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

  23. White Lotus

  24. September 5

  25. Mildred Pierce

  26. Mountainhead 

  27. The Last of Us

  28. Adults

  29. Common Side Effects

  30. Warfare

  31. Black Bag

  32. Let It Be

  33. The Leftovers x 3

  34. Dope Thief

  35. Dying For Sex

  36. 28 Days Later

  37. 28 Weeks Later

  38. The Bear

  39. The Road

  40. Seven

  41. Paradise, Season 1

  42. The Counselor 

  43. A Thousand Blows

  44. Chaos: The Manson Murders

  45. Becoming Led Zeppelin 

  46. Black Mirror

  47. The Regime

  48. Tokyo Vice, Seasons 1&2

  49. House of Guinness

  50. One Battle After Another

  51. Magnolia

  52. The Master

  53. Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed 

  54. Sinners

  55. Sicaria 

  56. Blow

  57. Tehran, S. 1&2

  58. Mr. Scorsese

  59. A House Of Dynamite 

  60. The Diplomat 

  61. Dog Day Afternoon 

  62. Taxi Driver

  63. No Country For Old Men

  64. The Morning Show 

  65. Nosferatu

  66. Hedda 

  67. After The Hunt

  68. Lion In Winter

  69. The Beast In Me

  70. aka Charlie Sheen

  71. The Narrow Road To The Deep North

  72. Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words 

  73. Sean Combs: The Reckoning

  74. Frankenstein

  75. Death by Lightning

  76. Hamnet 

  77. Zero Dark Thirty

  78. F1

  79. Anenome 

  80. Phantom Thread

  81. Down Cemetery Road

  82. South Park 

  83. Dave Chappelle: Unstoppable 

  84. Ricky Gervais: Mortality 

  85. Sundance Film Festival: Ricky; East of Wall; The Ballad of Wallis Island; It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley; Jimpa; Train Dreams; Rebuilding

Books 2025

  1. The Road — Cormac McCarthy

  2. Beartown — Fredrik Backman

  3. My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante

  4. When the Going Was Good — Graydon Carter

  5. On Being Jewish Now — Zibby Owens

  6. Who Knew — Barry Diller

  7. Kubrick — Robert P. Kolker

  8. Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization — Martin Dugard

  9. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty - Valerie Bauerlein

  10. The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand

  11. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov

  12. The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood — Mathew Specktor

  13. The Pardon — Jeffrey Toobin

  14. The Leftovers — Tom Perrotta

  15. Flesh — David Szalay

  16. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald

  17. Bad Company — Megan Greenwell

  18. HITLER’S PEOPLE: The Faces of the Third Reich — Sir Richard J. Evans

  19. East of Eden — John Steinbeck

Theater 2025

  1. This World of Tomorrow

  2. Gruesome Playground Injuries

  3. Mexodus

  4. Little Bear Ridge Road

  5. The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 

  6. Glengarry Glen Ross

  7. Angry Alan

  8. Anna Christie

  9. Vanya

  10. Hold Onto Me Darling

  11. The Hills of California

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