January 2012 Archives

FROM its curiously light opening to its emotive climax, the best thing about this animation is that it gets better and better as you grow into its own little world.

Find out more about this cute French animation by clicking on the link below.

I'VE warmed to Clive Owen in recent years as an actor - even though before long his remodelled gnashers are going to look 30 years younger than the face they're in.

But, and this is a big but, the Coventry-born star is struggling to choose the right film to make a big splash at the box office.

Click on the link below to see what can be done to help him.

WHAT is particularly interesting about this year's list of Oscar nominations is not so much who is in, but who has been left out.

Click on the link below to read about the two who are missing and need to be filed under the 'Glaringly Obvious' category.

ONE man who has excelled himself in the past year is my old friend, Neil White, a former fellow trainee at the Birmingham Post & Mail turned deputy editor of the Derby Telegraph.

How did his achievements with '606' knock Robbie Savage into a cocked hat?

Find out by clicking on the link below.

As yet another New Year begins, it's time to take another brief look back at the year now behind us.

Click below for my 2011 Films of the Year to see which films I rated, which I hated, and, in traditional fashion, which ones I've put into different categories in a bid to prove that the year had something for everyone.

The best films aren't necessarily the award-winners.

They can be the ones which entertain you the most, the ones which you'd like to see again or the ones where the audience simply didn't made a squeak throughout.

I even enjoyed New Year's Eve. Sure, it's not a fantastic film - many critics have really derided it and with reasons I fully understand - but it stirred a lot memories deep within, including the death of my grandfather at a similar time of year.

In that respect it did more for me than Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life even though that is, clearly, the superior film.

That's the great thing about the movies. We all like different things and for different reasons - and long may that continue to be the case.

PS. Delve deep into this blog and you'll also find my Films of the Year for every year this century, too.