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2021: A year in film

  • 31st December 2021
Dune 2020 film

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…

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Alastair JR Ball
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Nick’s Top Ten TV 2021

  • 30th December 2021

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…

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Nick Bryan
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2020: A year in film

  • 31st December 2020
Parasite Bong Joon-ho 2020 film

For the last few years, whilst superhero franchise blockbusters have been the undisputed dominant force in mainstream cinema, I have been saying that a change will eventually happen because nothing lasts forever. What I meant…

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Alastair JR Ball
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Nick’s Top Ten TV Shows of 2020

  • 28th December 2020

Ladies and gentlemen, we may not have left the house this year, but the one part of normal life we managed to continue is watching TV. So even if the rest of our social norms…

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Nick Bryan
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2019: A year in film

  • 31st December 2019

A year ago, I finished my summary of film in 2018 by saying that I had a feeling that the cinematic landscape will change because it has been the same for a while and nothing…

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Alastair JR Ball
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2018: A year in film

  • 30th December 2018
Black Panther

The most surprising thing about film this year was how unsurprising it was. The domination of the superhero leviathans continued and their reign as the most powerful force in mainstream cinema doesn’t appear to be…

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Alastair JR Ball
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2017: A year in film

  • 31st December 2017

I finished my summary of film in 2016 by saying that I was not “hugely hopeful for an explosion of quality in 2017” and in many ways I was wrong. Like last year, 2017 was…

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Alastair JR Ball
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2016: A year in film

  • 26th December 2016

This year, I have been to the cinema a lot. I think I have seen more films on the big screen this year than any other year since I was 18. It was a lot…

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Alastair JR Ball
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2015: A year in film

  • 31st December 2015

Another year is drawing to a close and it’s time to reflect on what kind of year it has been. In the cinema, it has been a good year for sci-fi films, with Jurassic World…

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Alastair JR Ball
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2014: A year in film

  • 31st December 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy

In order to write my summary of the sci-fi films of 2014, first I looked back at my review of films of 2013. A year ago, I said that 2013 was a good year for…

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