Yes that’s right, I don’t like the Oscars.

I’m not going to say “hate” because I don’t care enough about them to use that amount of effort.

As we are only hours away from this year’s Oscar nominations I felt it was about time to write a little post about why I dislike the Oscars and why I won’t be writing any Oscar Prediction posts for this year. (If The Oscars are your thing, then there are some great bloggers out there writing some posts that you’d be very interested in reading, check my Blog Roll).

I understand that award ceremonies are a big deal to the people working within that industry but to me they hold very little interest. I have my own opinions about which films in the past 12 months I thought were great and which ones failed … Read More »

Yes that’s right, I don’t like the Oscars.

I’m not going to say “hate” because I don’t care enough about them to use that amount of effort.

As we are only hours away from this year’s Oscar nominations I felt it was about time to write a little post about why I dislike the Oscars and why I won’t be writing any Oscar Prediction posts for this year. (If The Oscars are your thing, then there are some great bloggers out there writing some posts that you’d be very interested in reading, check my Blog Roll).

I understand that award ceremonies are a big deal to the people working within that industry but to me they hold very little interest. I have my own opinions about which films in the past 12 months I thought were great and which ones failed … Read More »

What is it with Australia getting releases after the rest of the world?

I’m not just talking a couple of weeks I am talking about months after they get released in the US!

As someone who spends a substantial amount of time on the Internet daily chatting with a lot of different film fans and reading a lot of different blogs and websites, it is made abundantly clear that we are getting the raw end of the stick (I fought the temptation to say “raw prawn”…)

There are a couple of movies that I would like to see now given the huge amount of positive reviews I have seen floating around the web and it’s just not fair that we need to wait until NEXT YEAR to watch them.

50/50 and The Muppets.

Yes, these films are the 2 big ones that have prompted … Read More »