The internet has gone insane because Barbie—the highest grossing film of 2023—has been nominated for eight Oscars instead of 10, snubbing Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig for Best Actress and Best Director respectively. Screen Rant’s Sarah Little called this a “horrific shock” and said that “being left out of two significant categories [proves] the movie’s point about patriarchy.”…
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Film Review: La La Land (2016)
This review is spoiler heavy. I’m not a big fan of musicals and I never have been. It takes a really impressive one for me to like it. For example, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) has always been a favourite of mine. And honestly, I also really like Singin’ in the Rain (1952), which I saw for the…
Top 10 Films of 2016
The second post I ever made on this blog was ‘My Top 10 Films of 2015‘ and looking back, I can’t believe how many amazing films we got last year. It’s been difficult to narrow them down for 2016 and so I’ve decided to leave out Marvel films as, even though I rated most quite…