2021 All Media Year End Roundup

It’s the sixteenth annual iFanboy All Media Year End Roundup! Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and special guest Ron Richards discuss some of what they enjoyed in media in this, the weird year that was 2021. Movies, television, music, books, and comics — it’s all here!

(Disclaimer: Ron Richard’s opinions are his own and do not represent Marvel Entertainment or the Walt Disney Corporation.)

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Running Time: 02:28:20

Movies:

00:02:32 – Licorice Pizza

00:05:52 – The French Dispatch

00:08:13 – Stillwater

00:10:27 – Dune

00:13:43 – No Time to Die

00:15:27 – Together Together

00:17:52 – The Sparks Brothers

00:21:20 – Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself

00:23:06 – The Mitchells vs. The Machines

00:24:40 – Annette

00:26:48 – tick, tick… BOOM!

00:29:33 – The Harder They Fall

00:32:22 – Zola

00:35:55 – The Fast Saga

00:39:07 – The current state of the movies

Television:

00:40:26 – Only Murders in the Building

00:42:47 – Ted Lasso

00:43:39 – Swagger

00:46:25 – Scenes from a Marriage

00:47:52 – Billons

00:49:17 – Mare of Easttown

00:50:46 – Gossip Girl

00:54:27 – Lupin

00:56:15 – Foundation

00:58:27 – The Expanse

01:02:02 – DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

01:04:11 – Dopesick

01:10:18 – The Beatles: Get Back

01:17:20 – Yellowstone

01:18:42 – Succession

Books:

01:28:13 – “Termination Shock: A Novel” by Neal Stephenson

01:32:04 – “Project Hail Mary: A Novel” by Andy Weir

01:34:11 – “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel” by Quentin Tarantino

01:36:14 – “The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles” by Gary Krist

01:37:55 – “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)” by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

01:40:32 – “The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood” by Sam Wasson

01:41:52 – “The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery” by Simon Worrall

01:43:01 – “Truman” by David McCullough

01:45:49 – “Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas” by Glenn Kenny

01:47:29 – “The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel” by Richard Osman

01:48:50 – “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz

01:51:17 – “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” by John le Carré

Music:

01:52:48 – “Distant Populations” – Quicksand

01:54:50 – “El Camino 10th Anniversary” – The Black Keys

01:56:14 – “Drives Out East” – Koyo

01:57:20 – Lukas Nelson and The Promise of the Real at the El Rey in Los Angeles

01:58:59 – The “Distortion” Sets – Bob Mould

02:02:27 – My Bloody Valentine Reissues

02:06:22 – “Hit the Breaks” – PLOSIVS

02:07:10 – “Glow On” – Turnstile

Comics:

02:08:30 – The mini-series is back!

02:09:15 – Nightwing

02:10:22 – Fantastic Four

02:11:11 – Beta Ray Bill

02:11:56 – King in Black: Thunderbolts

02:13:28 – Rorschach

02:14:31 – Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

02:15:32 – Haha

02:16:56 – Karmen

02:18:02 – Maestro: War and Pax

02:19:17 – Kang The Conquerer

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Music:

“It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”

Slowey and The Boats

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