It is New Year's Eve. For the want of anything else to do, except to watch "Event Horizon" for the upteenth time, I think it is time to list my favourite 10 films of the year.

Here we go. In no particular order, they are...

1. Dean Spanley (Dir. Toa Fraser)
2. Redbelt (Dir. David Mamet)
3. Eden Lake (Dir. James Watkins)
4. Elegy (Dir. Isabel Coixet)
5. The Mist (Dir. Frank Darabont)
6. Gone Baby Gone (Dir. Ben Affleck)
7. El Orfanato (Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona)
8. 4 Luni, 3 Saptamâni Si 2 Zile (Dir. Cristian Mungiu)
9. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Dir. Sidney Lumet)
10. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Dir. Andrew Dominik)

And now, an announcement.

I think I have had enough. Of the blog, that is. I have been thinking about doing this for some time, and in the best tradition of the drama queen, the big gesture at the end of the year is the way to go about it.

It must be obvious to everybody (or maybe it isn't?) that lately I have been finding it a struggle to sit down every day to write something. It has become a chore and bore. I don't think that I want to do it anymore. (That nearly rhymes.) What I am going to do is to pull up the shutters and become a private person again.

Yes, I think that is what I want to do. For the moment, anyway.

So this is goodbye, at least as regards the blog. I have setup a forward on my email. If anybody wants to contact me, they can. I will still check other blogs. I am still interested in what everybody is up to.

Happy New Year, all.

And remember

"We all invent ourselves".