I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have not [...]
The Oscar Nominees
The Best Picture Nominees: Vice
The 91st Annual Academy Awards arrive tomorrow. Let’s take a look at the last of this year’s Best Picture nominees. So, here’s a question that’s probably not all that hard-hitting. Would you be surprised by a story about two men who form a personal and professional bond with the intension of spending the next decade […]
The Best Picture Nominees: A Star is Born
The 91st Annual Academy Awards are just 5 days away and celebrate I am taking a look at all eight of the year’s selections for Best Picture nominees. Are they any good? Let’s take a look: I have to admit that my expectations ran hot and cold with the prospect of a fourth – FOURTH!! […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Roma
The 91st Annual Academy Awards are just 5 days away and to celebrate I am taking a look at all eight of the year’s selections in the Best Picture nominees. Are they any good? Let’s take a look. For the connoisseur of the cinema there are few things more exciting than a director who explores […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Green Book
The 91st Annual Academy Awards are just one week away and to celebrate I am taking a look at all eight of the year’s selections for Best Picture. Are they any good? Let’s take a look: When it comes to dealing with the history of race relations in America, Hollywood usually cranks it out in […]
The Best Picture Nominees: The Favourite
The 91st Annual Academy Awards are just 9 days away and celebrate I am taking a look at all eight of the year’s selections in the Best Picture nominees. Are they any good? Let’s take a look: It is a safe bet that most ordinary people are not familiar with the work of Greek film […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Bohemian Rhapsody
The 91st Annual Academy Awards are just 11 days away and to celebrate I am taking a look at all eight of the year’s selections in the Best Picture nominees. Are they any good? Let’s take a look. My musical tastes came of age in the early 1980s, arguably a difficult time for rock and […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Black Panther
The 91st Annual Academy Awards are just 13 days away and celebrate I am taking a look at all eight of the year’s selections in the Best Picture nominees. For the rest of my life I will never understand the cynical hate-speak that surrounds success. Public taste can be fickle, sure, but in the global […]
The Best Picture Nominees: BlacKkKlansman
The 91st Annual Academy Awards are just 15 days away and celebrate I am taking a look at all eight of the year’s selections in the Best Picture nominees. Once upon a time the release of a new Spike Lee joint came with a set of expectations. You knew that a new film by this […]
