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I wonder if 200 years ago, my ancestors felt there was simply too much theatre and entertainment to keep up with at the local hall?* Because right now, it seems there is too much TV for my first-world, privileged, mind. It’s a sentiment that began during 2020 when I was watching a lot in my pandemic…
It might be a lot less than those I follow on social media, but I’ve made an impressive attempt at watching as many Oscar nominated films for 2021. That’s even with the fact that cinema watching and film distribution has been anything but normal in the last year. I’ve seen 43/56 films, just over three…
Of the 53 films nominated at the 92nd Academy Awards, I’ve seen 31 which is 59% and, I think, my highest pre-ceremony viewed percentage. For the top 6 categories (Film, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay), I’ve seen 95% as I’ve missed one of the 17 (Cynthia Erivo’s performance in…
When I studied GCSE and A Level Media at school, a lot of the very basic curriculum, at least back then, was about representation in film and television. It was kind of bleak. We learnt how women were typically always saved by men in romantic comedies, how POC tend to be the bad guys in…