As with other aspects of life, the last couple of years have been a bit of a shit show for the entertainment industry with cinemas struggling to stay open, movie opening dates being pushed back and studios opting for the blended simultaneous theatrical/streaming releases. With most of the postponed films now being released we seem…
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Oscars 2022 – Best Picture
After the rather chaotic calendar of the last couple of years, the Academy Awards are back to their normal schedule meaning that it’s only a couple more weeks until the awards season is closed out with the most coveted prize of all – the Oscar. We’ve already taken a look at the Best Actor/Actress and…
Oscars 2022 – Best Animated Picture
After the rather chaotic calendar of the last couple of years, the Academy Awards are back to their normal schedule meaning that it’s only a couple more weeks until the awards season is closed out with the most coveted prize of all – the Oscar. Last month we took a look at the Best Actor…
Oscars 2022 – Best Actor
After the rather chaotic calendar of the last couple of years, the Oscars are back to their normal schedule meaning that the January Blues have been somewhat brushed away with the announcement of the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards. We’ve already taken a look at the Best Actress nominations so let’s gender-flip it and…
Oscars 2022 – Best Actress
After the rather chaotic calendar of the last couple of years, the Oscars are back to their normal schedule meaning that the January Blues have been somewhat brushed away with the announcement of the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards. First up, the nominations for Best Actress. Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe TV Series Ranked Worst To Best
After some Covid-19 related delays and timeline reshuffles, Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe officially began and the MCU’s post-Endgame era saw them expand their catalogue with a foray into the world of television, to varying degrees of success. As a loyal (or indoctrinated) fan of the Marvel films – and for fear of…
Christopher Nolan’s Movies Ranked
Christopher Nolan’s one of my favourite directors and I have been trying to write this post ever since I started my blog almost three years ago but my ranking changes every single time, so you need to take this post with a pinch of salt because it is pretty much a certainty that I would…
The ‘New Girl’ Flat Mates Ranked From Worst To Best
Building on – and improving – the format that F.R.I.E.N.D.S made mainstream what feels like an age ago, creator Elizabeth Meriwether’s New Girl is a quirky, refreshingly hilarious and surprisingly emotional sitcom about a group of flat mates that is an absolute must watch. Although the series finale aired way back in 2018, it wasn’t…
Oscars 2021 – Best Actress
The culmination of the 2020 awards circuit is just around the corner with the 93rd Academy Awards taking place on the 26th of April. We’ve already taken a look at the Best Picture, Best Animated Picture and Best Actor nominees (check them out if you haven’t already) and now it’s time to celebrate the women…
Oscars 2021 – Best Actor
We’ve already taken a look at the Best Picture and Best Animated Feature Film nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards, so I figured we would take a look at the nominees in the acting categories. First up – Best Actor. Anthony Hopkins – The Father In Florian Zeller’s The Father, Anthony Hopkins portrays an elderly…
Ten Great Animated Films That Aren’t Disney or Pixar
Whilst I don’t mind the odd Disney film or two, when it comes to animation I naturally veer towards Pixar and who can blame me, they have produced some phenomenal films over the past 25 years but even I have to admit that both production studios together have garnered something of a monopoly over the…
Oscars 2021 – Best Animated Feature Film
As the world finally starts to get back to normal and the prospect of returning to the hallowed halls of a cinema complex becomes more of a reality, the awards season comes to its end on the 26th April, with the 2021 Oscars. We’ve previously had a little look at the Best Picture nominees, and…
Oscars 2021 – Best Picture
It’s something of an understatement to say that the last 12 months have been rather unorthodox for the world of cinema but as things slowly start to return to some form of normality, the 93rd Academy Awards are just around the corner. So let’s take a little look at the 2021 nominations for the highly…
The ‘Criminal Minds’ Profilers Ranked From Worst To Best
After what feels like forever, I have finally finished watching Criminal Minds in its entirety but rather than attempt to write a review on a series that is 323 episodes long, I figured it would be easier to do something a little different and rank my favourite members of the BAU team from worst to…
My Favourite Favourites
Given the vastness that is the world of cinema, there are a few key roles that are beyond iconic and as a result there have been many a debate over which interpretation is the best. So for a bit of fun, I thought I would share with you my favourites of some of these iconic…
Harry Potter and the Game of Thrones
Some of us may have spent the last couple of weeks moping because, once again, our Hogwarts acceptance letter has got lost in the post but at some point we just have to suck it up and accept that we are muggles. In honour of ‘Back to Hogwarts’ day, I wanted to do a Harry…
Pippin: The Most Pivotal Character In Lord of the Rings
For my latest post, I thought I would do something a little different , I am going to explain to you all, why I think that Peregrin ‘Pippin’ Took is the most pivotal character in the Lord of the Rings (film) franchise. Now this might seem like a bit of a hard sell considering that…