Well here we are in 2016 and as much as we have to look forward to this year, I always look back and reflect on Rob’s career, not only for the 6 months review, but 2015 as a whole.  You’ll remember I ended off the 6 months hoping that Rob and Charlie Hunnam would feature and I’m sooo  happy to say that they will.  So to quickly wrap up the first 6 months, we had January kicking off with Rob and The Rover being nominated for 7 AACTA Awards.  Rob and Maps to the Stars were nominated for 11 Canadian Screen Awards.  February brought us LIFE and Queen of the Desert world premieres at the 65th Berlinale. Lost City of Z replaced Benedict Cumberbatch with Charlie Hunnam *still twirling*.  February also had Rob filming The Childhood of A Leader. We saw a teaser trailer of Rob and Dane from LIFE.   We were teased with Rob joining Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone with Mia Wasikowska and Guy Pearce, but then a snag hit and Rob had to pull out.  Rob then joined Harmony Korine’s “The Trap”.  In March we saw the not so secret photoshoot/film for Dior, that I told people wasn’t going to be unleashed in 2015, but nobody wanted to believe it.  We had a surprise Rob appearance at the Oscar’s Vanity Fair After Party with Tom Sturridge and Sienna Miller which gave us that incredible VF portrait *fansself*.  We saw Rob in his T E Lawrence costume holding those lion cubs.  Was worth the wait.  In May we were teased that The Childhood of a Leader had a special screening.  Rob also turned up to the Met Gala for the first time and then surprised us by attending the Safdie Bros “Heaven Knows What” premiere in New York and after party.  We didn’t know it then, but we would find out in July that Rob had signed on for the Safdie Bros next film “Good Time”.  Then we had updates on the status of Lost City of Z.  July also saw us being treated to some great behind the scenes photos of Rob taken by David Gilligan during the filming of How To Be.  Rob surprised us again by reversing roles when he interviewed Jamie Bell for Interview Mag.  Loved that he was the “interviewer” rather than the “interviewee”.  The Rover was released in Japan and Maps to the Stars in Venezuela. August teased us with a photoshoot outtake from Danielle Levitt.  The Lost City of Z gave us cast updates and Harmony Korine confirmed Rob’s involvement with The Trap. Venice also announced that it would include The Childhood of a Leader in competition. Meanwhile we all waited for something/anything from the film showing Rob. Life continued to be released at film festivals and Anton Corbijn continued to praise Rob. France was gearing up for Rob’s appearance at Deauville in September both for the film’s premiere and to present him with the “New Hollywood” award. Meanwhile August saw the announcement of Life being released in Australia and Vertigo and I went to a media screening of the film.  It also saw the announcement that Rob would attend the Venice Film Festival, but more importantly August gave us the announcement of Rob’s involvement with Claire Denis’ new project, which we now know is a sci-fi film called “High Life”. September announced that Rob was unable to attend both Deauville & Venice because he was filming Lost City of Z. I know loads of people were disappointed that there were no promo pics or interviews, even though we started to see a lot more print interviews from Rob, but I was happy because we finally had Rob and Charlie Hunnam on set together. This movie was a long time coming and I couldn’t be happier that it was finally being filmed.  We also had a new still from The Childhood of a Leader.  Just like Rob surprised us at the inaugural Red Nose Day for the US, his philanthropy knew no bounds in 2015. It was announced that Rob had joined The Global Goals for Sustainable Development campaign. September was a busy month. We saw the B-roll from Life, Rob accepted his award at Deauville (in his trailer’s bathroom), loads more print interviews and Rob was on the cover of Les Inrocks (France). Life was screening at the Zurich Film Festival, Queen of the Desert was being released in Germany and The Childhood of a Leader won the Luigi De Laurentiss Award for Debut Film and Brady won best director for New Horizons at Venice. We were then spoilt with a few more stills of Rob. More film festivals for Life, Little White Lies teased with a drawing of Rob as Dennis Stock, Rob told DeutschlandFunk he didn’t have a “selfie face” which I highly doubt and some Australian states were going to see Queen of the Desert as part of the BBC British Film Festival.   As we were saying goodbye to September, we were treated with an unseen interview from Cosmopolis “two shots, two beers”, David Gilligan let us know he was about to unleash another behind the scenes video and gave us a great backstory to one of his photos from the film.  Rob made the cover of NME magazine and SPP Photography shared a few of their photos of Rob in Cannes in 2014.  October treated us with some great BTS photos that Anton Corbijn took himself. Brady talked about how “beautiful” Rob is ahead of The Childhood of a Leader screening at Taipei Film Festival and the special screening + Q&A at the John Burns Centre in New York.  Meanwhile Lost City of Z was still filming and we had another sneak peak.  David Gilligan also gives us another look at what he is proposing to unleash for his second BTS How To Be video.  Speaking of BTS, we were treated to some Life footage and interviews with Rob, Dane and Anton and Queen of the Desert unleashed their US website. I should mention that there was also a chance to register to watch online a different “cut” of Queen of the Desert. Note to self: always check your junk folder! Kate Long shared some old photos of Rob from Bad Mother’s Handbook and Gentleman’s Journal showed us the kind of man Rob turned out to be – one of the 5 style icons of today “Pattinson personifies the formal evening-wear perfectly.” Like we didn’t know that.  The Childhood of a Leader was in more film festivals and High Life cast one of Rob’s teenage crushes. Hello Patricia Arquette. November saw Werner saying nice things about Rob. Lost City of Z was in post production *yipeeonestepcloser*. Rob showed his philanthropic side again and was named First Ambassador for the Go Campaign. Then Rob’s fans showed how much they supported this cause. Rob attended and the internet went crazy as it did when Rob attended the MOBO Awards to support FKATwigs. We came across an old photo from Uniqlo – love that the internet still surprises us occasionally when it comes to vintage Rob. As we headed towards the pointy end of the year November finally gave us some footage of Rob from The Childhood of a Leader. December finally saw Life released (albeit limited) in the US, High Life received more funding and Harmony talked a little about Rob as did Francis Lawrence.  We also were spoilt with some new Rover portraits. Caitlin Cronenberg shared a new still for Life and Josh Safdie mentioned filming for Good Time. As I mentioned, there were loads of print interviews promoting Life, I didn’t mention all of them in the wrap up, but if you have missed anything during the year you can always head on over to our RPAU Week in Review Page where you will find all our week reviews since we started in November 2014. We do this because we know sometimes real life gets in the way and you can’t always stay up to date with Rob.  What do we have to look forward to in 2016 … Good Time should start filming in a few days.  Claire Denis’ “High Life” is supposed to film in April and then there’s The Trap. At the cinemas we are hopefully going to see The Childhood of a Leader, most definitely Queen of the Desert and fingers crossed Lost City of Z is unleashed too.  Add to that any promo that Rob may do and that makes for one happy Rob fan (or a few thousand).  I say bring it 2016 … BRING.IT.