Larry's Winter Movie Awards 2025
All movies all the time with unconventional categories from an unconventional mind
I wouldn’t go as far as to say Cincels are seething over Tubechads, but since we last talked flickies it really feels like TV is up while movies are down which isn’t necessarily shocking as we finally crawl out the other side of the post-Oscars dumping ground. Between Severance, The White Lotus, Adolescence, The Studio (ironically enough) and, if you’re me, binging all of Southern Hospitality, I’m not sure anything I saw in theaters holds up besides Michael Fassbender going die for my bitch mode in Black Bag. If you’re an adult you’re gonna wanna see that.
Yes, I am totally aware that hitting you with a grip of movie recs just as you’re bunny hopping out the crib on a white ghost Citi Bike and spending all your time tryna replenish your brain chemistry with alcohol and sunlight might sound counterintuitive as fuck, but money, like stamina, doesn’t last forever and you’re gonna eventually need a day off or a basically free date night idea for that hottie you met while professionally loitering. So that’s more or less where my head is at, having taken copious notes on your behalf the past few months outside of watching the One Battle After Another trailer on a loop while my wife was out of the country last week. Please be polite and remember to thank your sensei.
As per usual let me set the stage for anyone new to this who is looking to quickly become true to this because if the Throwing Fits Substack is anything it is not normal:
The criteria, parameters and “rules” for Larry’s Winter Movie Awards 2025 are simple: If I watched it this winter and thought it merited any mention whatsoever I reverse engineered a category to shoehorn it into this list. Most of these 13 movies are old, or, rather, they did not come out this winter, let alone this year. My goal here is to put you onto something new, something you haven’t seen or maybe heard about, so you can cut out the middle man. Thankfully, there’s a lot of you reading this right now, so I don’t expect to blow everyone’s mind out of their asshole, but maybe you’ll get an opinion or two validated or, better yet, pissed off.
So won’t you join me in donning your finest Giorgio Armani for Bruce Wayne? The screen is darkest right before the dawn (read: turning it on).
Without further ado, let’s crack open some envelopes and hand out some well-deserved hardware. In no particular order…