Entertainment

For me, the New Year means a lot; it means a new term, a chance for new accomplishments, and a lot of upcoming music festivals.

It has been a rough month.

I love Westerns. I love the films of Quentin Tarantino. I love comic ultraviolence. I love snappy, stylized dialogue. I love single-setting stories. I love Tim Roth.

There is no one else in the world I could think of who could be so deeply abnormal as to turn their own death into a piece of art. But David Bowie certainly was and it puts an impossibly perfect cap onto an excellent and diverse career.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (TFA) opened on Dec. 18 with the biggest worldwide opening weekend of all time at $529 million. Since then, TFA has become the top-grossing movie in America, surpassing James Cameron’s “Avatar.” The film has broken numerous other box office records, including the top grossing IMAX opening of all time.

With the recent box office takeover by “Star Wars,” not much else has had a chance to catch more than a glance from moviegoers.

Where to begin? Well, to be honest, I’m not entirely sure, as I’ve never reviewed an entire book of poetry before. But I guess I’ll start with “Dirty Pretty Things” was very good. Fair start?

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: BBC’s “Sherlock” is one of the greatest television shows in history.

This movie kind of transcends the need for a review. I guess the only reason you might want to read criticism is if you wanted to know if it goes the way of the much-maligned prequels.

ATTENTION: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS, BUT SOME MAJOR PLOT POINTS HAVE BEEN INTENTIONALLY OMITTED