If you’re used to crime novelist Stieg Larsson’s ‘softly, softly’ approach to storytelling, where plot pile drivers unravel at their own pace then David Fincher’s remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo will pinch in the opening few frames.

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Prequels, sequels, reboots and remakes. On the surface, 2012 will be an exhausting re-run of the last decade; a victory lap for noughties cinema and no doubt another hoorah for Peter Jackson as he finally gives us part one of The Hobbit with the help of Martin Freeman as the pensively staring Bilbo Baggins.

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Ian Roebuck revisits our favourite 5 films of 2011.

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REO Speedwagon’s hit ‘I Can’t Fight This Feeling’ blasts out of the car radio, a strange Danish man sings at the top of his voice whilst his passenger squirms with delight beside him, eyebrow no doubt arched upwards. That’s how the story goes.

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Since Venice played host to the World’s first film festival in 1932 they’ve danced around the globe at a sensational speed. These days, a breath-taking amount of events are plaguing the public and it’s nigh on impossible to keep up.

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A clinical, cut-throat edge infuses Pedro Almodovar’s masterfully macabre The Skin I Live In. The Spanish director displays skill with the tools of his trade in a similar fashion to his plastic surgeon protagonist: brutal but highly effective.

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No doubt there were plenty of tears in the rain throughout these unforgiving summer months, especially after Ridley Scott announced he’s to helm a modern replicant, a Blade Runner for our ages. Now a new generation can glimpse attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, or c-beams glittering in the dark by the Tannhauser gate. As long as we aren’t forced to watch Sam Worthington aimlessly chasing rubbery CGI… then it really would be time to die.

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