20December 2020 Parasite won the Best Picture Oscar. Want to feel sad? Only nine months ago, Parasite broke the UK’s box office record for a non-English language film. Believe it or not, in early March, there was reason to be optimistic about the future of cinema. Now, in December, the theatrical experience is in trouble, and HBO Max are planning to upload The Matrix 4 online as if they were Hot Ones videos. If the AT&T-owned streaming service could remove “cinema” from the dictionary, they probably would. Dune, funnily enough, in a non-COVID world, would already be on its fifth wave of backlashes by now, and Wes Anderson’s