Larry's Fall Movie Awards 2024
All movies all the time with unconventional categories from an unconventional mind
Since your humble cinephile last left you, I’m on the cusp of hitting my PR of watching 365 movies (including rewatches) in a year, sitting at 339 at the time of writing this. It’s gonna be a sprint to the finish line no doubt, but if I believe in anything more than the magic of the movies, it’s myself. We’ll see how many holiday parties I end up bailing on despite RSVPing yes to because I already had a tasty fit cooked up in my head.
Whether you feel like admonishing me or cheering me on from the sidelines there will surely come a time this holiday season when you’re stuck inside, sick of your family and bored out of your fucking gourd which is where my impeccable viewing recs come in. We’ve all got our breaking point and as much as I wouldn’t mind the blood of an evil healthcare CEO on my hands I’m not sure you can pay for the TF Substack from prison so a little silver screen escapism is probably in both our best interests.
Lemme go ahead and properly hedge this shit for any virgin stackers, as we originally established for the more heady of you back in the summer:
The criteria, parameters and “rules” for Larry’s Fall Movie Awards 2024 are simple: If I watched it this fall and thought it merited any mention whatsoever I reverse engineered a category to shoehorn it into this list. Most of these 17 movies are old, or, rather, they did not come out this fall, 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.
Personally speaking, I think it’s been a pretty meh year for film. In shortlisting the noms for The Fitties Movie of the Year with James the past few weeks not a ton has changed. Yes, Anora was fantastic, especially if you’re in the market for an alternate timeline Larry biopic. Sure, I was kinda blown away by the Bucky Barnes cybernetic one-two punch of The Apprentice and A Different Man, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Sebastian Stan should be a real winter solider this awards season. And, of course, we’re all waiting with bated breath for Adrien Brody in There Will Be Buildings and Timmy’s Talk Hard: The Dewy Cock Story.
I guess we’ve still got some heavyweights on deck as Oscar starts poking his head out of his trash can. And while I’m motivated to throw on my biggest coat and duck into a matinee—I’ll always fondly remember seeing The Wolf of Wall Street on Christmas with my entire family, elderly grandmother included, and watching them learn how to boof cocaine in real time—nothing beats snuggling up on the couch with a delicious Colorado Bulldog and streaming some advanced bullshit this time of year.
So, won’t you please take my hand, dawg? Shall we?
Without further ado, let’s crack open some envelopes and hand out some well-deserved hardware. In no particular order…