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After two years of a pandemic, 2022 was meant to be a year of recovery for the movie industry. It was. Although it wasn't quite the recovery everyone imagined. As society gradually returned to something approaching normality, cinemas welcomed more people through their doors with films like Joseph Kosinski's ' Top Gun: Maverick ,' Colin Treverrow's 'Jurassic World: Dominion ' and Sam Raimi's 'Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness' leading the way. But while box office receipts were undoubtedly healthier than the previous two years, they were still considerably far off what they were in 2019 - running at about 80%. The movie industry had to adjust to changing customer behaviour as customers went to see some movies in cinemas and chose to stream others. Unfortunately, some cinemas were forced to close their doors as the harsh economic reality of a pandemic and its lockdowns, changing viewing habits and a recession exacerbated by Russia's i

It's been a bonkers year. Where do you begin? 2022 was yet another year of COVID -  albeit one where nations started to gradually get back to what existed before. Despite this, 2022 will principally be remembered for five things. It was a year when Europe experienced its worst conflict for 27 years, as Russia bombarded its neighbour Ukraine with missiles and dispatched tanks and soldiers over the border. It was a year when Britain changed Prime Ministers not once but twice, with Boris Johnson earning the dubious distinction of becoming the first head of government to have been fined for breaking the law - only to be replaced by Liz Truss who fell from power after her economic policy sent the pound tumbling, mortgages soaring and pension pots faltering. Across the Atlantic, Donald Trump notched up another ignominious first - becoming the first former President to have his home raided by law enforcement officials as the FBI unearthed sensitive files in Mar-a-Lago from his time in off