by Shashank K
Movies, books and songs I keep coming back to. Filter by what you're in the mood for.
Christopher Nolan · 2014 · Sci-fi
A blockbuster that's secretly about love stretched across time. See it on the biggest screen you can find.
Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 · History
Zooms out far enough to make you see humanity as one strange, lucky species. Changes how you read the news.
Queen · 1975 · Rock
Six minutes, four genres, zero rules. Fifty years on it still sounds like nothing else.
Bong Joon-ho · 2019 · Thriller
A sly comedy that turns into a scalpel about class. Go in knowing as little as possible.
James Clear · 2018 · Self-help
The rare productivity book with one genuinely useful idea: build systems, not goals.
Damien Chazelle · 2014 · Drama
A film about obsession, edited like a thriller. The last ten minutes are perfect.
Daft Punk · 2001 · Electronic
Still the album I put on to focus. Warm, melodic and weirdly emotional for two robots.
Christopher Nolan · 2008 · Action
Still the high-water mark for the superhero film. Ledger's Joker is pure, frightening chaos.
Phil Knight · 2016 · Memoir
The most honest founder memoir there is, all doubt and debt and near-bankruptcy. Strangely reassuring if you're building something.
The Weeknd · 2019 · Pop
Synthwave built for a stadium. Impossible not to move to.
Hayao Miyazaki · 2001 · Animation
The gold standard for hand-drawn animation and comfort food for the soul.
Morgan Housel · 2020 · Finance
Short essays that fix how you think about money better than any spreadsheet ever could.
Arijit Singh · 2016 · Bollywood
Arijit at his aching best. Heartbreak has rarely sounded this good.
David Fincher · 2010 · Drama
Sorkin's dialogue at a sprint over Fincher's cold precision. Aged into a near-documentary about ambition.
Tara Westover · 2018 · Memoir
A memoir about escaping into education that reads like a thriller. Hard to put down.
Eagles · 1976 · Rock
That twin-guitar outro earns every second of its runtime.
Quentin Tarantino · 1994 · Crime
Rewired how a generation writes dialogue. Endlessly quotable, never dull.
Eric Jorgenson · 2020 · Business
Not really a book, a well-organised collection of one clear thinker's ideas on wealth and happiness.
Daft Punk · 2013 · Funk
Nile Rodgers' guitar makes this physically impossible to sit still through.
Lord & Miller · 2018 · Animation
Every frame is a poster. It made animation feel new again.
Viktor Frankl · 1959 · Psychology
Written from inside the worst of human history, and somehow it leaves you steadier.
Harry Styles · 2022 · Pop
Melancholy dressed up as a pop banger. Sneaks up on you.
Daniels · 2022 · Sci-fi
Absurd, exhausting, and then quietly devastating. A film about being kind.
Pritam · 2013 · Bollywood
The Hindi song I keep for long drives and slow evenings.
Sriram Raghavan · 2018 · Thriller
The smartest Hindi thriller in years. Every twist earns the next one.
Fleetwood Mac · 1977 · Rock
Effortless, and somehow more popular now than ever. Mick's drums, Stevie's voice.
George Miller · 2015 · Action
Two hours of practical-effects mayhem with more story in its silences than most films manage in words.
Damien Chazelle · 2016 · Musical
A love letter to dreamers with the guts not to give them everything. That ending.
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