Daldry definitely won’t be repeating because he hasn’t directed any episode of The Crown this season. He’s still listed as an EP so I don’t know why he didn’t return to the director’s chair, especially after winning an Emmy.

Going by this decade, Writing repeats generally don’t happen if:

1. It’s the final season (FNL, Breaking Bad, The…[Read more]

I am really unhappy with the change in composers. It has resulted in a largely abysmal score this season. Not only is it jarringly different from the previous ones, but also incongruous with the scenes it’s used for. Almost all of Martin Phipps’ compositions are indistinctive and unmemorable.

I’ve finished the first five episodes and Aberfan is indeed an exceptional piece of television. Hauntingly engrossing and awfully tearful. The final sequence remains Colman’s finest moment on the show so far. She has managed to align herself with Foy’s Elizabeth for the most part and still give a natural, personal performance with successful…[Read more]

Gaze Upon Olivia Colman’s Single, Perfect Tear on The Crown

But nothing is more remarkable than one specific shot of Olivia Colman’s face at the end of the season’s third episode, “Aberfan.” The shot is an extreme close-up of Colman’s face, seen from a three-quarter profile view. As the camera holds on her face, a single tear slowly wells up in C…

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Isn’t it doing poorly at the box office? I really doubt we will be getting a sequel.

O’Connor is officially guest eligible, so is Charles Dance. I am guessing they’ll still submit O’Connor in supporting. It’s slightly amusing that apart from Colman and Menzies, Bailey is the only one to appear in all 10 episodes. Doherty was surprisingly in more than half the season.

Here’s the number of episodes all major cast members appear i…[Read more]

People applied the same duo logic when predicting Comer for S1 at the Emmys and Rhys+Russell wins last year. This sort of thinking is inherently faulty because it ignores the competition at play entirely, among other things. Kidman can easily get nominated without Witherspoon. The same can happen with Comer and Oh.

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If I could go a dollar overboard then I’d upgrade Netflix to HD.

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He has gone on much much worse tirades than these, sometimes specifically attacking certain users. You won’t believe the kind of filth that scumbag can spew.

Still don’t get why everytime something like this needs to happen for him to get banned. Everyone knows he is an uneducated, vulgar racist and homophobe. He is openly boasting about who he is so I don’t know why he isn’t banned immediately. Why allow him to stay in the first place?

I found it more engaging than the previous episode, probably because the plot feels more focused and there’s less meandering. Wilson remains the best thing about the show by far. She was mind-blowing in this scene. That inflection in her voice, that rage… chilling. Keen felt more inexperienced than usual as a result though.

That seems to be the consensus and I’m very glad because Smith was easily the weakest link in that brilliant cast. His performance always verged on being caricaturish and I felt his performance only skimmed the surface at best.

I’ve gone through every review curated by Rotten Tomatoes so far and none had a negative thing to say about Bonham Carter. All are raves. The only mixed one is from NOW Magazine which says she is as fun as Kirby but less charming. The twitter reactions were equally favourable as the rest.

Her being underutilised is from a single reviewer from…[Read more]

The recent winner will obviously be higher than a previous winner who was bested by someone else. That is just indicative of what the academy likes more at the moment.  I’d also argue that Dowd won the first time mostly on the strength of her show, which picked up four other awards that year. Last year, her show lost that support so she would…[Read more]

I won’t argue about Blunt because her film was better positioned than Collette’s, but Curtis definitely didn’t have a better chance at a nomination. Collette wasn’t a complete non-factor.

She was sweet in the role but that category isn’t that devoid of worthy contenders, surely? I’ve just recently watched it and her performance doesn’t call for the hype she’s getting here. Diana Lin had a much richer performance but is barely even talked about.

NSFC don’t have an Animated Feature category.

And it’s annoying when people start crediting/praising the actor for resembling the real life character they are playing, when it’s the make-up team that should actually be lauded. Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly are the most prominent examples in recent times.

Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out.

Sally Hawkins- Similar to Keaton’s loss for Birdman, it’s ridiculous that the performance which carries the entire film is completely ignored, while the movie itself is winning multiple awards.

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Margot Robbie

Meryl Streep- Might be her best nominated performance this decade.

Frances…[Read more]