Welcome to Year 6 of Ruminations! Chris and Steve begin the new year with a discussion of Robert Eggers’ acclaimed remake of Nosferatu, a look back at 2024, and what we’re looking forward to in 2025 (if we can even think of anything). How, according to Chris, did the notoriously detail-oriented Eggers drop the ball? Can either of us talk about any of the characters in Nosferatu without calling them by their Dracula counterparts? What did we think of the 2006 Dracula-themed book, The Historian? How many episodes of TV did Steve watch while on paternity leave? Is Chris still miffed that Mufasa exists? What Zoomer slang ensured Steve’s fantasy football victory? Happy New Year!

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Credits

Intro & Outro:
“Sanctuary of the Sky Gods” by Nathaniel Wyvern, CC BY 4.0 via freemusicarchive.org

Intro quotes:
The Big Lebowski (Gramercy Pictures)
Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company)
Goldfinger (United Artists)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Buena Vista Pictures)
The Shining (Warner Bros)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (New Line Cinema)
Game of Thrones (Warner Bros/HBO)

Sound credit:
“One eternity later” from Spongebob Squarepants; downloaded from YouTube

Featured Image credit:
Composite, featuring images of Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson from Nosferatu (2024), Max Schreck from Nosferatu (1922), Spongebob Squarepants (2002), and personal photos