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Parasite Becomes The First International Film To Win The Best Picture Oscar

This morning’s Academy Awards saw history be made when Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite win the Best Picture award at the 2020 Oscars. Parasite became the first-ever international film to win the Best Picture award, and after 92 years, it’s about time. It’s especially surprising since all signs were pointing towards Sam Mendes’ 1917 winning the…



Could Parasite Cause An Upset And Win Best Picture At The 2020 Oscars?

It was a great moment when Bong Joon-ho’s incredible film, Parasite, was nominated for Best Picture at 2020’s Oscars, and it’s already made history. Parasite is now the first South Korean movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, and Bong Joon-ho is also the first Korean filmmaker to be nominated for a Best…


Joker Leads Academy Awards With 11 Nominations

Joker’s been nominated for 11 Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards. Yep, you read that correctly – 11! That’s an insane number of nominations for Todd Phillips’ movie, which I really did enjoy, but I’m going to be honest here (because I always am on Small Screen), it doesn’t deserve 11 nominations. Does a film…


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1917 Review

Director: Sam Mendes Starring: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth, and Benedict Cumberbatch Sam Mendes is back after having given us the rather disappointing James Bond movie, Spectre, with a much more personal and, I believe, important movie, 1917. 1917 is a war movie, but don’t let…