With the Oscar nominations just round the corner, this is the start of my coverage of this years awards season. Here I predict what I think the nominations will be (these are not my personal picks for what should be nominated) and I will confuse to evolve this as the season develops. Picture – The …
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LFF 2021 Review: Spencer – ‘The Haunting of Sandringham House’
*This article contains mention of certain moments and themes from Spencer (2021) but is mostly spoiler free and safe to read for someone who has yet to see the film. Arriving five years after director Pablo Larrain masterfully re-imagined the story of Jackie Kennedy and the aftermath of the ‘fall of camelot’, he returns again …
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Oscars 2021 Predictions
My final predictions for who will win and who could win at this years Academy Awards. These are not necessarily the films I want to win, but instead those which I think will. Most Wins – Nomadland – 4 Best Picture Will Win: Nomadland Could Win: The Trial of the Chicago 7/Promising Young Woman Best …
Oscar Nomination Predictions
Most Nominations – Mank – 13 Best Picture Nomadland The Trial of the Chicago 7 Minari Promising Young Woman Mank Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom One Night in Miami… Judas and the Black Messiah Sound of Metal Alternate: The Father Best Director Chloe Zhao – Nomadland David Fincher – Mank Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Emerald …
Golden Globes 2021 Predictions
This years Golden Globes feel unlike any other, mostly due to the Covid-19 pandemic but also due to the huge scandals breaking about the lack of diversity and dishonesty within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. However, despite all of this, these awards hold a lot of weight in the industry and here I will break …
Malcolm & Marie (2021) – Review
A Netflix Original Picture, Written and Directed by Sam Levinson. A filmmaker on the brink of Hollywood glory and his girlfriend, whose story made his career, find themselves pushed towards a reckoning as a single tumultuous night decides the fate of their relationship. Shot in one location during the Covid-19 pandemic, the film is written …
The Dig (2021) – Review
A Netflix Original Picture, Written by Moira Buffini, Directed by Simon Stone. With a country on the brink of war in the late 1930s, wealthy landowner Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) hires amateur archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to investigate the mounds on her property in England. He and his team discover a ship from the …
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) – Review
A Warner Bros Picture, Written by Will Berson, Shaka King, Kenny Lucas, Keith Lucas, Directed by Shaka King. “You can murder a liberator, but you can’t murder liberation. You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder revolution. And you can murder a freedom fighter, but you can’t murder freedom!” Judas and the Black Messiah …
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Succession (2018) – TV Review
‘This dark comedy centres on the inner workings of the sprawling media corporation Waystar Royco, which is run by Roy family patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox), and the manoeuvrings of his four children, who are struggling to win power and take over the company when their father retires. After Logan suffers a stroke at the …
Lovecraft Country (2020) – TV Review
Based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he meets up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father (Michael Kenneth Williams). Misha Green …
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