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Oh, hi Harrison, what's wrong? You were having a nice bath? So then what happened? Blown out of it you say?

Santa? Mind you I get his autograph every year at Xmas so he's actually pretty common.

Harrison Ford?

Harold Bishop?

That's great. Awesome even. I'm happy for you. Like, actually happy. Excelsior! But... Blown. Out. Of. The. Water.

All the films I watched that were released in 2020: 1) BAD BOYS FOR LIFE - Seen it twice, still a solid action film. 2) #ALIVE - Outstanding original Korean zombie film focusing on isolation. 3) THE INVISIBLE MAN - Amazing the first time and full of suspense but admittedly slow the 2nd time once you know everything. 4) EXTRACTION - Solid action piece but spoiled by weak characterization. Still no idea why/how 14 yr olds go to niteclubs though. 5) TRAIN TO BUSAN: PENINSULA - Not as bad as they say despite the hokey climax. Unfairly compared to the first film. 6) DA 5 BLOODS - Enjoyable Spike Lee adventure, could have done with less of his usual race politics angle though. 7) EUROVISION: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA - Harmless fun if somewhat messy pacing/narrative and unfunny jokes. 8) MULAN - Looks great but overly-Americanized and relies too much on fantasy to explain the impossible. 9) THE OLD GUARD - Fun but naff and felt like a TV show, missing the big budget of a feature film. 10) UNHINGED - Good premise and decent Crowe performance but missing solid writing to justify his character's actions. 11) BORAT: SUBSEQUENT MOVIE FILM - Disappointing sequel with too much focus on the daughter and story-line instead of the pranks. 12) ALL MY LIFE - Small film with good performances but doesn't really go anywhere. I doubt it would've been made if it wasn't a true event that made the news. 13) WW1984 - A joke of film with a shoddy, dumb, goofy script that takes it audience for idiots. Its the only big 'summer' event movie we got so suck it up. 14) BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC - Weak attempt to recapture the magic of the previous films ruined by their boring daughters. 15) BLOODSHOT - Crappy Vin Diesel vehicle with another straight-to-DVD feel. 16) UNDERWATER - Basically a fanboy homage to Alien and by-the-numbers creature feature but worse. No wonder it wasn't released for ages. 17) BIRDS OF PREY - Pretentious bollocks from a screenwriter who somehow fooled the studio into buying her all-over-the-place dull as dishwater script. NOTE: 1917 and PARASITE were officially 2019 films so I didn't add them despite having their UK theatrical releases in January/March. They would have been on my 2019 list instead.

The current government target is to have offered a vaccine to every adult by the autumn. That makes it seem unlikely that an event like this, where social distancing is unfeasible, will be permitted as early as July.

I have three autographs on the way that will blow everyone else's out of the water. Prepare yourselves.

Starting the year with some sad news. RIP Mark Eden who played the titular role in Marco Polo as well as countless other roles outside of Doctor Who. indiemacuser.co.uk/2021/01/01/british-actor-mark-eden-dies-aged-92-after-alzheimers-battle/