The battle for Best Picture
As the 92nd Academy Awards loom, our writers make a case for each one of this year's nine Best Picture nominees.
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Reece Goodall
The Oscars music race: 2020
As I’ve always loved film music, the categories that always get me the most excited come award season are the music ones. Here’s a breakdown of the nominees for Best Original Song and Score, and a look at who is most likely to go home with the trophy.
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Midsomer Murders – The Miniature Murders
It’s a small world in this week’s Midsomer as we find ourselves surrounded by dollhouses and children’s parties. But don’t let that put you off – ‘The Miniature Murders’ is a really good instalment (albeit one let down by some minor annoyances).
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Do authors owe their readers?
You’d expect the announcement of a new George R. R. Martin work to be greeted with joy by his fans, but his latest update has instead received a furious backlash. Instead of revealing the next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, Martin stated that he has...
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The 2020 awards season is a disappointing return to form
Reece Goodall discusses the controversy surrounding the 2020 awards season, seeing it as a disappointing return to form for Hollywood.
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Is the U.S. public really ready for a female president?
As the race for the Democratic presidential nomination continues, the question of sexism has entered the equation. Elizabeth Warren accused her rival Bernie Sanders of stating that a woman simply could not capture the presidency, an allegation he vehemently denies. Will this row harm his campaign? And, whether the story...
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When travel inspires film and TV locations
When you head abroad for your holiday, what do you look for? Relaxation, or the chance to experience a new culture? Or perhaps, as film and TV play an increasingly large part in our lives, we could look for locations that inspire or directly feature in media.
Disney is a big company known for incorporating real-life locations into its animated films. The beautiful city of Mont Saint-Michel was used as a model for the kingdom in Tangled, and a lot of actual Alsace architecture made its way into Belle’s village in Beauty and the Beast.
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At what age should you start travelling alone?
Travelling is becoming increasing easy, as social media and travel apps open up the world for everyone. As it’s young people who primarily use these tools, it makes sense that travellers are getting younger – but how young is too young to travel solo?
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Midsomer Murders – The Point of Balance
After keeping us waiting for the end of series 20, ITV has immediately granted us the first episode of Midsomer Murders series 21. In ‘The Point of Balance’, Barnaby must contend with dancers and his family, but some script issues mean that a promising start doesn’t deliver a satisfying conclusion....
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Harnessing the power of the ‘Cheerios effect’
Reece Goodall reports on new research into the 'Cheerios effect' and how it can be used to produce micro-robots
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Core of the Earth may contain iron ‘snow’
Reece Goodall investigates the possible presence of iron 'snow' in the Earth's core
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Hollywood gets the dressing down it so richly deserves
It’s the start of Hollywood award season, and that normally means pretentious people winning awards for films you don’t care about and using their success to spout left-wing politics and lecture the viewers. As a result, viewing figures tumbled year on year, and it would take a miracle for people...
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The top sporting moments of the decade that shocked us all
Sport tells a story and, this decade, it provided some truly phenomenal ones, from victory to defeat and everything in between. Narrowing this list to just a few was bordering on impossible, but here are my choices of some of the major sporting moments that defined the 2010s. Lows for...
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