And The Best Film of 2020 Goes To…
So little cinema, too much television; but hope came in the form of a forty-year-old wanna-be rapper thirsting over tight white ass.
If I said 2020 has been a strange one I’d win the understatement of the year award, along with the most conceited. Though I’d have stiff competition from Trump on that last one. And I do realise he would probably take such as a compliment; it’s hard to criticise someone with selective hearing, especially through a radioactive layer of orange-tan…But I digress.
I think it screams volumes about this year as a trainwreck when the two most popular films are Christopher Nolan’s high-concept blockbuster, Tenet, and Sasha Baron Cohen’s high-comedy ballbusting, Borat: the only similarity between the two being their five-lettered title. Unfortunately, this year has seen a catastrophic collapse in the movie industry unparalleled in its history. Propped up by a need to fill seats, cinemas have found ticket sales wane drastically due to the pandemic forcing them to close and some to shutter their doors for good. Film productions around the world have shut down, then started up, then suffered delays and now hobble on in a kind of bubbled limbo akin to a socially phobic dystopia — prompting a yelling match from Tom Cruise at anyone who breaks the…
