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Although the Twilight saga was done and dusted a few months ago (bar the threats of a spin-off TV series still looming), it seems like Hollywood is not finished with supernatural romances. In fact, 2013 is set to be positively brimming with them.

Ehrenreich and Englehert as Ethan and Lena in Beautiful Creatures, © Warner Bros Pictures.

One of two big franchises hitting the silver screens this year is The Mortal Instruments: A City of Bones; Lily Collins stars as Clary, a girl who discovers she's a "Shadow Hunter" and is wrapped up in a reluctant love triangle between her human best friend and another Hunter.

Then we've got The Host, another Stephenie Meyer creation, where a girl inhabited by a parasitic alien is then split between two hunky humans. Meyer has announced she plans to write a trilogy, so this certainly has the potential to get as weird as Twilight did (werewolf imprinting a half-vampire baby, anyone?).

Just round the corner is the release of Warm Bodies, starring Nicholas Hoult as a zombie who falls for the human girlfriend of one of his victims, and is set to hit screens on February the 1st.

As I look out of my window, and I see a Britain surrendering to winter’s sharp and bony grip, I realise that the time is perfect to stay inside, and depress oneself further, with a bleak and depressing film. Because sometimes we have to embrace our inner emo.

Which, then, is the most depressing? Films that kill your childhood could quite easily enter into the mix. I entered into such an existential crisis after seeing Attack of the Clones that it took repeated viewings of The Two Towers to restore me to any semblance of my former self. The realisation that The Phantom Menace wasn’t simply a one-off, the porcelain acting of Mannequin Skywalker, the green screen, oh my god the endless green screen…other films that could come into this category could be Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and the Transformers franchise, both of which took things that had managed to bottle an intangible, and perhaps, indefinable awesomeness, and somehow decided to replace that with Shia Labeouf.

Are these films really depressing, however? Sure, they made you realise that even if you love something very much, that thing can whither and die, leaving you to ponder the reality of death’s abyss, from which no-one, or seemingly, no beloved movie franchise can escape, but at the end of the day, you can always go back and watch the originals and drink heavily to forget the anguish.

Hi, it’s been a great year for cinema & to celebrate it we at the Film Show have put together a list of our favourite films of 2011. If you’d like to hear us talk more in depth about our personal favourites of the year, you can find them in the Podcasts linked below. Thanks to everyone who helped with the show this year & here’s hoping for more great cinematic moments this year.

http://urn1350.net/filmshow/podcast

URN's film show went through their second installment of their favourite films of the year, listen in to hear us discuss and debate some of the particularly high points of the year in film.

Tune-in next week to hear The Film Show's Top 10 of the year.

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The Skin I Live In

URN's film show went through their favourite films of the year, listen in to hear us discuss and debate some of the particularly high points of the year in film.

Tune-in next week to hear the second half of the Film Team go through their favourite films of the year as well.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy