I don't know if anybody other than me remembers that the original of this ever existed, but I remember, and that's the important part

So, after a hiatus of over two years, I’m going to be picking this up again to bring it up to the current year.

The premise is I've picked one film that I've seen to represent each year of the 21st century – e.g. the pick for 2000 is a film that first came out in 2000, the pick for 2001 a film that came out in 2001, and so on – and done a post about each.

Whilst I personally consider all of these to be good films, I'd say this list is primarily films that I most associate with those particular years

The list so far has been:

  • 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • 2001: Legally Blonde
  • 2002: Chicago
  • 2003: Return of the King
  • 2004: Howl’s Moving Castle
  • 2005: Brokeback Mountain
  • 2006: Pan’s Labyrinth
  • 2007: Hot Fuzz
  • 2008 Wall-E
  • 2009: Moon
  • 2010: Black Swan
  • 2011: A Dangerous Method
  • 2012: Skyfall
  • 2013: Under the Skin
  • 2014: Guardians of the Galaxy
  • 2015: Mad Max – Fury Road
  • 2016: Your Name
  • 2017: Blade Runner 2049
  • 2018: Annihilation


2019, 2021 and 2021 to follow in the near future. Feel free to wildly speculate on what my picks will be in the interim.