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 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘2009 in Review’
January 4, 2010
Strange Horizons Review : 2009 Edition
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 [...]
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 [...]
