The Top 100 films of 2021

Ending at the beginning and the beginning of the end

Bambi, The Thin Red Line and the enduring power of parental love

Science, philosophy and the enduring gender-nonconforming creative lunacy of Real Genius

From Orlando to Perks of Being a Wallflower, the journey to self-acceptance remains a wild ride

Marilyn Monroe, my grandmother Doris and the haunting depressive beauty of The Misfits

Life’s Labyrinth, or How One Cinematic Sarah Leads to Another (just without the “h”)

Sean Connery, the Art/Artist Debate and Longing to be a “Golden Girl”

Dragonslayer, gender and the myth of the so-called “guilty pleasure”