The 92nd annual Academy Awards (or The Oscars as the cool kids call it now) just wrapped up a brief time ago at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. After weeks of build-up, the biggest awards show in the movie industry finally handed out their little golden men.
We've had the slightly cooler kids from the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs giving out their prizes, but now it's time for the grandaddy of the movie awards shows to do its thing. The 92nd Academy Awards aka the 2020 Oscars will be taking place in just under a month and now we know which films and actors will be duking it out for those small golden sword-wielding men as the nominations have just been revealed.
It seems that despite the world going green and trying to get rid of plastic in our lives, that Hollywood still wants to pursue making a movie out of arguably the most plastic character of all time – Barbie. Though if you were expecting the Mattel / Warner Bros film that is set to star Margot Robbie to be a …
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is the upcoming Netflix dramedy from Noah Baumbach. It's the emotional, and comic inter-generational tale of adult siblings (Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Elizabeth Marvel) contending with the long shadow their strong-willed father (Dustin Hoffman) has cast over their lives.
Whenever you see Adam Sandler’s name attached to a project you almost cringe at the prospect of how low or stupid the next film is going to be. It’s not that he is necessarily a bad actor, he has put in quite a few good performances over the years (Punch Drunk Love and Spanglish being his most recent good dramatic …
Having no history of watching any of director Noah Baumbach’s previous movies I didn’t know what to expect from While We Were Young. Of course I was familiar with the actors that star in this movie and being a fan of Ben Stiller I figured it couldn’t be that bad. It wasn’t, because what Baumbach delivers is really good. The …
I may be a resident of Cape Town, but I’ll have you know that I do not own any ironic clothing, prefer my music digital instead of on vinyl, and I don’t cultivate outlandish facial hair or take a ride to Truth Coffee on my Pennyfarthing. Yes, that’s right. I am in fact a non-hipster Capetonian, and contrary to popular …
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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