So here we are, another Christmas. A time for unbridled consumerism, dysfunctional family breakdowns and the ubiquitous lazy journalistic treat - the end of the year review.
What better way to fill those slow news days than with a run down of the best and worst of the years cultural highlights?
Not wishing to be the one to break with tradition, Movie Geek, has decided to offer up his list of the ten cinematic happenings of the year. They are in no particular order and follow no particular theme. Indeed most are not even happenings, more blips on the bumpy celluloid highway of life.

1. Serenity being voted the best sci-fi film ever at the Oxford Mail film festival.
How can this glorified Blake's seven be better than Blade Runner or 2001? I can only assume that all the clichés' about science fiction fans are true. It really is time they left home and saw something of the world.

2. Babel.
I didn't think Alejandro González Iñárritu could make a film more depressing than 21 grams, but he did. I couldn't face the real world for days after watching this. Still, full marks to Cate Blanchet for bleeding to death so beautifully.

3. Ratatouille
Someone was too busy creating the fur on a rats arse to think about writing a script.

4. The mysterious breakdown of three Inland Empire DVD's at exactly the same point in the film.
I'm still not sure if David Lynch was behind this, but the terrifying freeze frame of Laura Dern confessing to the murder of a rapist still haunts me to this day.

5. Control
A great British film about a great British band. Enough said.

6. Host
It may be South Korean and low on budget, but the first twenty minutes of this classic monster movie are possibly the most thrilling scenes of monster carnage since King Kong grappled with a T-rex.

7. Jude Law
How many other ways can he think up of killing off his career?

8. Martin Scorsese
At last he finally bagged himself a couple of Oscars. Unfortunately they were for the Departed, not one of his best and certainly not Oscar-worthy. Still it saves the academy the embarrassment of having to offer him one posthumously.

9. David Lynch
That hair, that voice, that film and that cow. What's not to like?

10. Transformers
My choice for best film of the year. From the subtly of the script, to the courageous performances of it's young cast, it was faultless. Bring on the Oscars.

So there you have it, the best and worst of my cinematic year. It wasn't always pretty but it was always entertaining.
See you in 2008, oh and ignore number ten, my three year old wrote that.