2018: Year in Review — • Discoveries of the year! • Best of the year! • Most anticipated of next year! 100% spoiler-free! 🎁 🎅 Soundcloud: bit.ly/2CE0Xso 🎅 iTunes: apple.co/2L8g0gt 🎅 Stitcher: bit.ly/2SrJ5GO 🎅 YouTube: y2u.be/4qWQMlG6vvQ

have the arts stopped brexit yet

have the arts ousted the potus yet

Who else should we cover in 2019?

So psyched for Jeremy Renner's return in Avengers Endgame. His bow and arrow could really have turned the tables in Infinity War against the supervillain who was literally offing superheroes for laughs.

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Our (spoiler-free!) 2018 Year in Review is here: best new-to-us discoveries, actual 2018 top tens, and our most anticipated 2019 releases. Much agonising, much begrudgement, much laughter—at the expense of Guy Ritchie, ourselves, and... colleagues. soundcloud.com/journeymenpod…

Demonstrably, you don't need to be good at film criticism to earn a living from it. To suggest otherwise to aspiring critics is self-aggrandisement on the part of the person imparting wisdom.

Ah yes, your long-awaited, completely earnest list of the best films you saw projected from 35mm this year. 😎

When you try a little bit too hard to demonstrate the intellectual and emotional infrastructure required of a searching, interrogative, historically informed film criticism that's liberated from paternalistic and unworkable notions of social responsibility and moral guardianship.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

Went into HMV yesterday for the first time since, maybe, last Christmas. The same box sets by the entrance, the same artwork: Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, The Likely Lads. The same t-shirts at the back. Band merch mugs. Shelves of tat. Same prices. How's it still open?

Is it that 'in times of political turmoil and financial strife, audiences turn to lighter, more fantastic forms of entertainment' or that this is a common aggregate and often the only real choice provided by exhibitors due to their own binding relationship to capital?

cold war

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