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Add fun and games to your home in the New Year

December 29, 2020 | Sponsored

This year has taught many of us the value of staying indoors and making our own entertainment and a pool or snooker table is a sure-fire way of providing hours of fun. Not only will it guarantee entertainment for your family and guests, but it is also an object of beauty in its own right. [...]
Sportspeople have never had so much power. In 2021 they will continue to change the way they are defined

December 29, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has been the dominant theme of 2020 for the entire global population and its impact on the world of sport – its events, competitions, clubs and athletes – has been equally transformative. But, as Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote states, out of adversity comes opportunity. And as we look ahead to the sporting [...]
Shirley film review: Elizabeth Moss chills again in strange horror

December 28, 2020

Having chilled us earlier this year with breakout hit The Invisible Man, Elisabeth Moss plays American horror author Shirley Jackson in an interesting non-biopic. Odessa Young and Logan Lerman play Rose and Fred, a young couple expecting a baby who come to live with Jackson and her husband Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg), an academic and [...]
Why women’s sport will hit £1bn and the tech tools trusted by pros will go overground in 2021

December 28, 2020

Paul Lee, global head of technology, media and telecommunications research at Deloitte, forecasts two major growth areas for sport in 2021. Women’s sports Deloitte predicts that revenue from women’s elite sports will be almost £1bn in 2021. The start of the 2021-22 season will kick off a record period for women’s sport attendance, TV audiences [...]
The top films of 2020, from Parasite to Mank

December 27, 2020

The absence of cinema releases for much of 2020 gives this year’s ‘best of’ film list a strange new context, as the industry shifts from reliance on the opening week box office and cinema fans focus on what they miss about the big screen. Here’s our pick of this year’s best movies, comprised of titles [...]
10 video games that defined the strange year that was 2020

December 27, 2020

In a year that blockbuster movies were delayed en masse and people were confined to their homes for months at a time, video games played a more important role than ever in our lives. With the new Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 finally making an appearance last month, 2020 was also a last hurrah [...]
The Women’s Super League Team of the Year 2020, according to quantitative analysis

December 26, 2020

Who should be in the Women’s Super League team of 2020? Using quantitative analysis derived from investment banking, Matthew Belford and Jack Morris of Carteret Analytics have selected an XI for City PM How the XI was selected The players chosen for this Women’s Super League Team of the Year 2020 have been selected based [...]
The best films to watch on a Tier 4 Christmas day

December 25, 2020

As many adverts have told us, Christmas will be a bit different this year. There will be people we won’t be able to see, and celebrations we won’t be able to have. However, one thing that 2020 can’t take from us is our favourite Christmas films. Whether you like them as sentimental, dramatic, funny, or [...]
The Midnight Sky review: George Clooney’s sci-fi flop

December 24, 2020

George Clooney’s latest effort The Midnight Sky is a no-lose scenario for the star. Its release on Netflix means it won’t risk the ignominy of box office failure, a fate that befell his most recent film Suburbicon, and 2015 mega-bomb Tomorrowland. As well as lower stakes, the streamer has given him a broader canvas, with [...]
Trevor Steven’s heroes and villains of football in 2020

December 24, 2020

From Jack Grealish to Liverpool becoming champions of England again at last, the resurgence of Everton and Leeds to empty stadiums and bad rule changes; football in 2020 may have felt different but it was still eventful. Here, City PM football columnist Trevor Steven picks his heroes and villains of this unique year. Greal deal [...]