The Guide's roundup of 2012

It's time for the Guide's annual act of enumeration. From mixtapes to monkeys, we've clocked the year's key trends and put numbers next to them

Was 2012 the year of the misjudged movie cameo?

From Birdsong to The Hour, via Hunted and The Fear, British drama has had a great year. It's all down to these essential ingredients. Plus, Limmy's darkest bits

We saw, we got annoyed, we hate-watched anyway. Plus, how the Take Me Out ladies justified their love

Just how daft were the plots of the year's biggest films? Plus, Prometheus: a scientist tries to explain it

Michael Cragg sees nothing wrong with a little bump'n'whine but Alex Macpherson is fed up of sadsacks gentrifying his tunes

Peter Robinson hands out the gongs for the year's finest achievements in the world of moving pictures set to music for promotional purposes

Bond's back in cinemas and so's Bourne. There's Shakespeare, punk and lots of sport on TV. And Azealia Banks leads pop's rude girls

This was the year that music lost its mind

From crimes against fashion to ruining pop stars, Electronic Dance Music has got a lot to answer for