Category: Year In Review

For the last few years, I have been predicting that change has been on the horizon for Hollywood, due to the marshalling of a range of factors – AI, streaming wars, lean economic times, social…

Christmas has been and gone, Santa Claus has put his feet up, and with Jolly Old Saint Nick out of action, it’s time for the other regular Nick intervention we always see at this time…

I was very pleased that one of the biggest cultural events of 2023 was the world’s most unlikely cinematic showdown. Christopher Nolan’s dark biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Manhattan Project and creator…

The end of the year is nigh, it’s been a terrible one as usual, friends are pounding at the door trying to make you celebrate, and you’re looking for something to watch on the television…

In 2022, the cinema was back in a big way, and I was very pleased to be able to watch 36 films released this year; either at the cinema or on streaming services. The world…

I know what you’re all thinking – one year, he’ll decide not to write an epic end of year TV blog post and just keep his opinions inside his body. Maybe, but not yet! So…

Reading back my summary of film in 2020, I was reminded of the desperate state cinema was in a year ago. In 2020, cinemas were dogged by closures and low audience numbers, due to many…

Ladies and gentlemen, ten years of top ten TV lists. Ten sets of ten. The big ten tens. Weirdly, it feels both a long time and… almost not long enough. My relationship with time truly…