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The Business of Fim: Kraven the Hunter, Lord of the Rings - The War of the Rohirrim & That Christmas

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Fim: Kraven the Hunter, Lord of the Rings - The War of the Rohirrim & That Christmas
With box office takings down once more, James Cameron-Wilson says that #5 Kraven the Hunter is the worst ever Marvel opening. It's a mixed bag but is often entertainingly ludicrous with Russell Crowe having fun as a Russian villain. He found the anime Lords of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim often utterly baffling but it got better as it went on, even if he never wants to see anything Lords of the Ring-related ever again. On Netflix, however, he warmed to the animated That Christmas, co-written by Richard Curtis. It's a sweet and sentimental tale aimed at the whole family that does what it says on the tin.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos 2024 Review: AI Grannies, butter made from air, spying air fryers and much more

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos 2024 Review: AI Grannies, butter made from air, spying air fryers and much more
Steve Caplin looks back over the good, bad, ugly and bonkers of the tech world in 2024. He admired the AI scam-baiting granny, the rocket that eats itself, the underwater kite, butter made from air and the benefits of red wine and dark chocolate. He wasn't keen on Chinese spying air fryers, the flamethrowing robot dog, the airline computer that couldn't cope with a 101-year-old and AI cheating at Diplomacy. And he is still scratching his head at the bike lane sweeper that sits behind the bike and the billionaire who wants to launch a replica Titanic.
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Steve Caplin

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: How did 2024 turn out and what to watch out for in 2025

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: How did 2024 turn out and what to watch out for in 2025
Contrarian that he is, Russ Mould of A J Bell was surprised that 2024 turned out pretty much as consensus had it, though few predicted the surge in Bitcoin. Looking ahead to 2025, he wonders what might knock growth and inflation off the rails. He recommends keeping an eye on government debt (growing scarily), world trade flows and tariffs, the dollar (a trade surplus would starve the world of its reserve currency), oil and food prices (important for inflation) and the Magnificent Seven (now so large that they will affect so much else).
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Russ Mould

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The Bigger Picture: Problems for the UK economy, Reform's danger to the Tories & the New Year ahead

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Problems for the UK economy, Reform's danger to the Tories & the New Year ahead
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University rounds off the year's Bigger Pictures by explaining why investors are getting spooked by the UK economy going from bad to worse. We are effectively back in the 1970s, he says, only, in some ways, it's even worse. Instead of effectively tackling the problem, politicians' heads are full of spaghetti. If Elon Musk contributes heavily to Reform, a psychological wall will break and the Conservative Party will face an existential crisis. And Tim looks ahead to what 2025 might bring, wondering where the unforseen Black Swans will come from.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business of Film: Black Tuesday, Beatles '64 & Pipes in the Peaks

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Black Tuesday, Beatles '64 & Pipes in the Peaks
James Cameron-Wilson celebrates UK box office being up 38% YoY with 5 films taking £1m. With no new films to review, he turns to the 1954 Edward G. Robinson gangster film noir Black Tuesday. Banned in the UK for its violence, it has been restored on Blu-Ray. Packed with superb extras, it is a forgotten masterpiece. He found Beatles '64, a documentary about the Fab Four on Disney+, slick and engaging. And Simon recommended a glorious garage in Derbyshire where they have restored a Compton cinema organ called Pipes in the Peaks, having attended four concerts there this year.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: A generational UK opportunity & 4imprint

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: A generational UK opportunity & 4imprint
Neil Shah of Edison Group highlights research claiming there may be a generational opportunity in the UK market, extremely cheap against other markets, particularly the US. The tide in sentiment may be turning and American investors are already looking to the UK to diversify and reduce downside risk. The company highlights 20 stocks in the report: https://tinyurl.com/56sj3h4u. Neil also returns to 4imprint. It is US based, where the promotional products market is highly fragmented. Through marketing efficiency, they are growing market share.
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Neil Shah

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Google's quantum chip, rocking beds, solar paint & a security football

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Google's quantum chip, rocking beds, solar paint & a security football
Steve Caplin updates Simon Rose on the latest tech. Sadly, OpenAI video generator Sora won't be available in the UK. However, Google's GenCast could soon be predicting weather more accurately while its quantum chip can do in 5 minutes what the fastest computers would take 10 septillion years, threatening the safety of encryption. The VR DropTower will give gamers an enhanced experience, including turning them upside down. A podcast lists the top 100 tech achievements: can you guess the top 5? A bed rocker imitates the motion of a train. A new security robot resembles a football. There's a thermal imaging camera that will plug into a phone. The Tank Pad adds ruggedness for tablet users in difficult environments. And Mercedes have developed solar paint to add range to your EV.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: How to invest long-term when US debt is not just a problem but a predicament

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: How to invest long-term when US debt is not just a problem but a predicament
Tim Price of Price Value Partners explains why, despite the US market's Trump optimism, US debt has gone from a problem to a predicament. Most western governments are technically bankrupt but Tim points out that, contrary to popular belief, there is no real link between economies and stock markets. He explains his investment philosophy which stresses the importance of not losing money, ignoring the latest hot thing like the tech sector and investing in real assets such as gold and silver, now 20 years into a bull run. Silver, he says, is essential for industry and the green revolution but demand is greater than is being mined. He discusses long-term inflation and why he feels money is too important to be messed about with by central bankers and politicians.
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Tim Price

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The Bigger Picture: France's political turmoil, why Starmer is doomed & the surge of Reform

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: France's political turmoil, why Starmer is doomed & the surge of Reform
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University wonders if the French Fifth Republic can continue much longer, with its politics increasingly polarised. With the German economy in free fall, even the survival of the Euro may be in doubt. Tim finds Keir Stamer less the heir to Blair than to Wilson and Callaghan, believing he is a catastrophically bad PM who is avoiding anything meaningful while doubling down on his worst ideas. But the Conservatives may not benefit. Badenoch is not doing well enough and Reform could soon surge past the Tories as they professionalise and purge the nasties. Why should they do a deal with the Conservative Party if they could be elected on their own, asks Tim?
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business of Film: Moana 2, Conclave, The Piano Lesson and A Time To Kill

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Moana 2, Conclave, The Piano Lesson and A Time To Kill
James Cameron-Wilson reports that UK box office is up for an amazing 7th week in the row with Disney's Moana 2's £12m opening at #1 being four times that of the original. While the animation is sublime and the music great, it lacks a cohesive storyline. At #5 is Conclave with Ralph Fiennes excellent in a surprisingly thrilling and insightful adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel about the election of a new Pope. James was gripped throughout, finding it a cinematic masterpiece. Although Netflix's second screen version of The Piano Lesson, with Samuel L. Jackson, is a well-made and acted tale, it can't shake off its theatrical roots. He also revisited the John Grisham adaptation A Time To Kill online, finding it has well stood the test of time.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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