Links Ah Review 2004, you were Letterboxd before Letterboxd. That's when I spent the year keeping a diary of all the film, television and audio drama I watched and listened to that year. On the 3rd December 2004, I watched The Incredibles at the cinema (from celluloid) and Have I Got News For You Season 28, episode 7 (Neil Kinnock as guest presenter with Will Self and Linda Smith)(episode 8 is also listed for some reason but that wouldn't be broadcast for another week so I wonder what I was thinking)(again).
After subsequently deciding in the few years afterwards it was one of the most boring things I'd ever posted on this blog, I've since warmed to having this time capsule, so much so that in 2014 I paid homage to it by not just listing all the films I was watching but reviewing them in herds on a weekly basis. It's all still here and reminds me that March 2004 is when I first signed up to receiving DVDs by post from Screen Select. How times have changed.
"Created especially for the BBC by the film’s animators, the three 40-second idents show Charlie Mackesy’s beloved characters across day, dusk and night scenes."
"Christmas card efficiencies."
"Nearly two decades in the making, Crossroads: The Noele Gordon Collection is an exclusive box set of 94 discs (over 700 shows) containing every known existing episode from the earliest surviving show through to Nolly's final performance in November 1981 (wrapping the set up with the last show transmitted by ATV on New Year's Eve 1981)."
"Christmas dinner will be nearly 22% more expensive this year than in 2021, according to new research for the BBC. The price of seven key items has risen by £5.36 over a year, with chipolatas - the crucial ingredient in pigs-in-blankets - seeing the steepest jump."
"The Christmas Tractor Run is returning to Liverpool to raise money for Alder Hey Children's Hospital."
"It happens every December, before dinner parties and cocktail events. My husband rummages deep in his dresser, pushing sweaters around like piles of autumn leaves, until he emerges triumphant with the piece of knitwear for which he has been searching: that legendary item, the ugly Christmas sweater."
"What does Christmas mean to men? Tonight asked some men - namely Bernard Levin, Rene McColl, Andrew Shonfield, Lord Boothby and Steven Watson - to take a little time to reflect."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a dead wife must be in want of a festive miracle, apparently. Here, Stylist’s Kayleigh Dray explores the most baffling of all Christmas movie tropes."
"The perfect Christmas horror film."
"2022 marks Channel 4’s 40th Birthday. It also marks 40 years since Channel 4 first broadcast the film adaptation of the late Raymond Briggs’ timeless picture book - The Snowman™. In a huge celebration of this iconic animation this 1x60 documentary explores how this little twenty-six-minute film has become so embedded in the nation’s heart at Christmas."
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