For the next month or so, as is the case at the beginning of every year, cinema loses the run of itself, in the UK at least. Every week brings a barrel-load of new movies, more than any adult human with a job has time to watch. Even worse, with it being Oscar season a lot of the films getting released at this time of year are genuinely good or even great, and there are so many to cram in.
It’s all a bit exhausting, to be honest, and it doesn’t really have to be this way. The UK could have had these films weeks or months before, when they were released in the US. But, due to a combination of reasons – a desire to drum up buzz in the run up to the Baftas or it just being how things have always been done – this is what we’re stuck with.
