Try to contain your excitement but it’s almost Oscars night again!
This year, the Academy will doubtless be relieved if the ceremony passes without a hitch and that it makes the headlines for all the right reasons.
After spectacularly goofing up the best film award last year and being under the shadow of the Weinstein-related sex scandals, the spotlights in 2018 will be about as comforting as interrogation lamps.
Under this kind of intense public scrutiny, the stakes are high. Political correctness used to be routinely ridiculed but is now the order of the day and woe betide those who step or speak out of line. Continue reading
The Iron Lady is a film about one of the most significant (and hated) political figures of the 20th century but is practically devoid on any political content. It tells you more about the state of dementia than it does about the state of Britain in the 1990s.
Four DVDs for 11 euro – you get 5 nights to watch. As the march of Blu-Ray continues and DVD retail prices plummet the days of these offers (and probably Blockbuster itself) are numbered.
