The Red Circle

Although Ryan may have already claimed 2009 as a tragedy (and this seems to be a fairly widespread opinion across the social networks), 2010 has started no better. Think. This is the first year in a decade that novelty eyewear manufacturers can’t make a pair of gaudy baubles using the year as the frames. What will these fine people turn to in the wake of the ‘tens? Hopefully by the end of this year, someone will have come up with a nice name for this bizarre grouping of years. The ‘tens just doesn’t seem to capture it. This, more than ever, is the future.

I digress.

It’s a new year. The Red Circle is looking forward to its first stage of metamorphosis. The previous three months have been a modest success. We have readers, we have discussions, and people visit the site, even if we don’t have an article posted. Hell, sometimes they show up even if we don’t link to the site directly every day. This is a good thing, and I want to sincerely thank Ryan, Cory, and Jamie for making The Red Circle at least a tiny little pinprick of a destination for some folks.

This year, everything gets complicated. The Red Circle is expanding. The previous three months were a practice run; something to test ourselves and make sure we’d still want to do this in 90 days time. Well, apparently we do. This year will see a few things start, and a few others end. Goodbyes are due to the “theme” months. We will be focusing on our columns, the new and the old, as well as diving into some more in-depth feature articles. The site will start taking a much more intensive view on the medium of comic books and graphic novels, and, god willing, we’ll actually start talking about things that are on the television.

Look forward to a roundtable on the Passing of the Tenth Doctor, and a weekly capsule of the new series starting in April. 2010 will also see the inaugural class of The Red Circle’s Hall of Fame.  We have and will continue to champion the best of film here at TRC, and the people who have made this possible will have our highest honour bestowed upon their deceased skulls.

It’s a rumor that the people who run and write for this site are a bunch of stodgy, angry, bitter, scalliwags who hate everything they see. This is, of course, absolutely true. And in an attempt to prove it, I will be watching and reviewing 201 movies I have never seen before in this calendar year. I do honestly hope that most of them are good, or else my fate is sealed.

But, as for the evolution of this site, you will just have to wait and see. There are many things in the works to increase the diameter of The Red Circle out as far as it can go. We hope to encompass as many new ideas and people as possible. One day, we will all stop talking about what we have been watching, and begin talking about what we are creating.

And we hope you’ll talk about it, too.

Tom Nix, Co-Founder of The Red Circle

01.03.10

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