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Another year has come and gone. You know what that means, dont you? Time for a bunch of strangers to tell you what was good! And why should you care what the LitReactor staff thinks are the best books of the year? Trick question! You shouldnt. But what they have to say might interest you nonetheless, because they are good-looking and knowledgeable and they read like the wind. So for those who care, we submit for your approval/derision some of LitReactors favorite reads of 2020 (part 3). *Not a...

After  The Old Guard and  Extraction, it looks like Netflix has found a formula for their action titles: some sort of outsider gets mixed up with someone who is seemingly indestructible and there are lots of quick cuts to make all the fighting and explosions kind of confusing. The latest entry is   Mikael Håfström that finds Outside the Wire Trailer  The Old Guard or  Extraction, but they were both big hits for Netflix, so it makes sense that they’re ready to pump out even more action...

Parasite, Bong Joon-hos breakaway hit  Which films made a splash in 2020? Frankly, I haven’t a clue. Or at least, none founded on the way the industry usually measures these things: by cold, hard box office takings. For almost five months of the calendar year, all 840 cinemas in the UK were closed. Many remained shut even when permitted to reopen thanks to the lack of new mass-market releases, as Hollywood battened down the hatches. In 2019, global box office revenue hit £31.67 billion: ...