Entries Tagged as ‘2009 in Review’

January 4, 2010

Strange Horizons Review : 2009 Edition

Strange Horizons have put up their traditional yearly round up of what’s been best in the worlds of science fiction and fantasy.  My entry comes about two-thirds of the way down.
It would appear that there’s a lot of love in the room for China Mieville’s The City and The City and Kim Whitfield’s In Great [...]

January 1, 2010

Film Log For The Second Half of 2009

Back at the beginning of July I posted the first half of my film log for the year 2009.  In the first six months of 2009 I watched 103 films.  In the second half I have done significantly better.
Since the first of July I watched 158 films giving me a total for the year of [...]

January 1, 2010

Films of the Year : 2009 Edition

2009 has been, by my estimation, an excellent year in film.  In the wake of the recession, many people are moaning about the collapse of mid-range budgets (leaving only Avatar and Paranormal Activity).  This may well prove to be true but I suspect that the UK will not feel the cinematic bite of the recession [...]

December 31, 2009

Films of the Year : Not Quite the 2009 Edition

I have decided to split my favourite films into two distinct groups.  The first group is a list of the films that I have particularly enjoyed this year but which were not made or released this year.  It is a longer list than the other and because it is more a reflection of what I [...]

December 29, 2009

Surprises of the Year : 2009 Edition

As I’ve expanded my film watching habits, I have frequently taken chances and moved outside of the kind of film that I might have expected to like (more on this when I put up my best of 2009 post!).  Sometimes, the results were disastrous.  Other times, I was nonplussed but looked into the director and [...]

December 28, 2009

Disappointments of the Year : 2009 Edition

While I have seen a lot of films this year, I have been relatively lucky as far as avoiding stinkers is concerned.  Following disastrous trips to the cinema to see films like Jumper and Quantum of Solace on the grounds that I had a card that allowed me to get in for free, I have [...]

December 27, 2009

2009 And All That

Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that, thus far, Ruthless Culture has been free of the blogosphere’s traditional end of year introspection.  There have been no ‘best of the year’ posts, no plans for 2010, no resolutions, no learning from past mistakes… until now.

July 1, 2009

Film Log For The First Half of 2009

Back in December, I decided to keep a running tally of how many new films I managed to watch in a year.  Initially,  this little experiment was a simple list of titles bu, before long, I started also noting down brief opinions of the films.  I found that not only did this justify the amount [...]