PREVIOUSLY, IN EMPIRE...
THE VERY FIRST REVIEW OF THE YEAR DECEMBER 1989
This issue, we reflect on the last 12 months of movies in our 2024 Review Of The Year (see page 63). Which means we can also reflect on our first-ever Review Of The Year, from 35 years ago. Some things haven’t changed: the box office was dominated by superheroes (Tim Burton’s Batman) and sequels (Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade). But some things seem positively ancient: we reported on a “quiet revolution at the video shop” with VHS tapes being sold for “under a tenner”.