• A Look at Diversity in the Oscars 2018

    This year’s (slightly belated) Oscars are almost upon us! For me, this usually means finding something yellow-goldish to wear, getting my friends to come over, and eat inexcusable amounts of popcorn until four or five in the morning. While all these Oscar rituals that I have going are mad...
  • Ugly Truths Behind Lovely Films

    I watched The Greatest Showman at The Savoy for the third time this weekend (yes, you heard that right, I’ve watched it three times) and it got me thinking. YES it’s a great film, YES it has a fab cast, and YES it has an even better soundtrack, but...
  • Look Out For…March

    To kick things off in March, it’s the 90th Academy Awards. But in a business that’s always looking for that ‘New Thing’, the past twelve months’ worth of awards hype will be rendered meaningless within a week. Instead, it’s onto the next batch of hopefuls. After all, let’s not...
  • 90th Academy Awards – Predictions

    Having narrowly escaped what could have been another #OscarsSoWhite controversy, most of the acting categories this year are quite easy to predict. Nevertheless, there seems to be a trend of the old guard versus the new talent – examples are Gary Oldman vs Timothée Chalamet and Frances McDormand vs...
  • Kim Possible Live-Action Movie in the Making – But What’s the Sitch?

    From numerous live-action creations of Disney films to re-masters of beloved video games, it is fair to say that we are currently living in an ‘era of remakes’. Although some of these promised reboots cause a surplus of groans (Heathers, I’m looking at you), there are a few pieces...
  • Trailer Watch – Incredibles 2

    Incredibles was released in 2004 and was an instant hit among Disney and Pixar fans everywhere – featuring brilliant superpowers, fantastic characters, and an interesting plot, full of wonderful action and comical, as well as heartfelt, familial interactions, it’s no surprise that fans everywhere began wishing for a sequel....
  • Loveless – The Necessity of Bleakness

    After causing uproar in Russia with his 2014 Oscar-winning film Leviathan, director Andrey Zvyaginstev returns with Loveless, a bleak, uncompromising story about a couple, Zhenya and Boris, going through a divorce and how they cope with the disappearance of their child, Alexey. Loveless has already obtained the Cannes Film...