Five Books That Changed How I Think About Movies
My 2025 best-of list
It’s December, which means all Substack writers must share a year-end listicle or else they will be ritualistically disembowelled by a pack of rabid wolves.
I’ve filtered this list through the slightly arbitrary criteria of the books that ‘most changed how I think about movies,’ before breaking that rule for a bonus fiction recommendation (because why no…


