It's the end of another year, and so time for the almost traditional Cinema Essentials annual review. Records held at the British Museum show that our first annual review took place in 1856, in celebration of the end of the Crimean War. Unfortunately, we were still waiting for someone to invent moving pictures, so there wasn't that much to write about. Type after me: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ..." An Amazing Post You May Have Missed We attempted to change to a new email subscription service this year, but it didn't quite work out, so we've had to change back again for the time being. As a result, you may have missed the post on Stanley Kubrick's The Killing during the change over, so I'll just mention that now.