I did not have esteemed auteur director, Richard Linklater, swerving into Rom-coms i my 2024 bingo. Other than being a tiny bit superficial and slight, this film is an utter blast. Very funny and with two of the most engaging leads of the year. Glen Powell excels as the titular fake hit man (based on a very real person) and for fans of Triple Frontier, finally Hollywood seems to be catching on to the gorgeous, electric presence of Adria Arjona. Think Grosse Point Blank more than Pretty Woman.

The relentless reboot and remake cycle reaches the once unthinkable - lets re-do Beverly Hills Cop. Though the electric magic of the original is missing, it's powered across the line by a star missing from our screens (other than in donkey form) for far too long, Eddie Murphy is completely undiminished, possibly due to witchcraft.

We all hoped superhero comic book movies had died off. First with a perfect Endgame to the MCU universe, then a run of genuinely terrible and unsuccessful movies. But no, nothing will stop them, even the most cynical and creatively bankrupt act in major franchise movie history - recasting your most popular actor as a new character. This is some Bobby Ewing level garbage.

Director Jeff Nichols latest, is a superb subject with a great cast. It's also sadly, trite, superficial and far less than sum of its visually gorgeous parts.

The first post slap-heard-around-the-world Will Smith movie, is another broadly successful entry into the unexpectedly rebooted franchise, though with far less narrative ambition than its predecessor.

Perhaps alongside Beach House as the most well established of the second wave of Shoegaze and Dreampop bands, though on this immaculately presented effort, sadly not as prepared as to offer variety or imagination to their sound.

The Hyperdub label head and his head honcho team up and not for the first time. After Burial's recent extremely punishing EP, this is one of his most commercial sounding releases. Full of light skipping 2step beats and UK garage flourishes, plus a heap of hooky vocals and synths. Kode9 ably backs it up veering into early 90s rave and Drum n Bass. Undemanding but in a good way.

My intermittent series on albums/artists/films that were either denied classic status on release or forgotten since. Both in this case. Forever he will be known for the tragic element to his career, for not reaching superstar status, after turning down the offer at the end of the Sixties to become the front man of Led Zeppelin. And Deep Purple. But his talent as a guitarist and one of the finest ever British rock vocalists can perhaps be enjoyed best on his third album River, the kind of music pretty much anyone would like, sitting equidistant between Blues, Folk, Rock and RnB.

Colombian  JP López turns in possibly three of the best electronic tracks of the year on one powerhouse 4 track EP, that seems to be more inspired by the more experimental post dub-step UK artists than Latin Club music per se.

I was annoyed when they couldn't help themselves in the endless rebooting of existing projects cycle that is modern cinema, given the recent films were the best SciFi-Fantasy trilogy since The Lord of the Rings. However, the odd quibble aside, this is far better than we could've hoped for and again, much better than Dune 2.