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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast – “She’s just a small town girl… from Norwich”

05/03/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 91st Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Cold Pursuit, Fighting with my Family, Florence Pugh, Happy Death Day 2U, Hellboy, Liam Neeson, Oscars, Oscars 2019, Podcast, Stephen Merchant, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, X-Men: Dark Phoenix

The career of WWE star Paige hits the big screen with wrestling biopic Fighting With My Family, which we review on this week’s podcast.

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The Academy has added a whole load of new members, including Idris Elba and Emma Watson

News Round-up – Academy gets more diverse, Spectre gets complaints, Sully trailer and more

03/07/201610/07/2016 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Academy Awards, Alicia Vikander, Barkhad Abdi, BBFC, Blade Runner 2, Clint Eastwood, Denis Villeneuve, Emma Watson, Idris Elba, John Boyega, Michael Cimino, News Round-up, Pacific Rim 2, Peter Jackson, Robin Hardy, Spectre, Steven Spielberg, Sully: Miracle on the Hudson, The Wicker Man, Tom Hanks, Tom Hiddleston, Wreck-It Ralph, Wreck-it Ralph 2

The Academy adds much-needed diversity, Tom Hanks plays a hero pilot and more in this week’s round-up of movie news.

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Eddie Redmayne in ‘The Danish Girl’, Oscars and the trans casting debate

12/03/2015 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 88th Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Casting, Dr Karen Oughton, Eddie Redmayne, Jennifer Handorf, Oscars, The Danish Girl

Controversy has greeted the news that Eddie Redmayne has been cast as trans pioneer Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. Is it right for cisgender actors to play trans roles?

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