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Review – Submarine thriller ‘Hunter Killer’ is too dull to find campy charm

15/11/201819/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Alexander Diachenko, Caroline Goodall, Certificate: 15, Common, Donovan Marsh, Gary Oldman, Gerard Butler, Hunter Killer, Linda Cardellini, Michael Nyqvist, Mikhail Gorevoy, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Thriller, Zane Holtz

Gerard Butler plays a rugged, maverick submarine captain trying to avert nuclear war in the big, stupid action thriller Hunter Killer.

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News Round-up – New Mission: Impossible trailer, first look at Bohemian Rhapsody, Zombieland 2 and more

20/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Adam Driver, Antonio Banderas, BlackKklansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bryan Singer, Cannes Film Festival 2018, Christopher McQuarrie, Dexter Fletcher, Emma Stone, Gary Oldman, Henry Cavill, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Jesse Eisenberg, John David Washington, Lars von Trier, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Dillon, Melissa McCarthy, Meryl Streep, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, News, News Round-up, Rami Malek, Rebecca Ferguson, Shoplifters, Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, The Happytime Murders, The House That Jack Built, The Laundromat, Tom Cruise, Woody Harrelson, Zombieland 2

This week, there are trailers for Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody and puppet comedy Happytime Murders.

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Oscars 2018 – Kimmel’s safe hands suited a night where only Peele and McDormand raised the pulse

05/03/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 90th Academy Awards, Awards Season 2018, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Get Out, Guillermo del Toro, Jimmy Kimmel, Jordan Peele, Oscars, Oscars 2018, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

It was a fairly pedestrian night at the Academy Awards, though Frances McDormand made the Oscars 2018 her stage.

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Oscars 2018 – Final predictions for the 90th Academy Awards

04/03/201805/03/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 90th Academy Awards, Allison Janney, Awards Season 2018, Darkest Hour, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Guillermo del Toro, I Tonya, Oscars, Oscars 2018, Sam Rockwell, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

It’s Oscars 2018 night, so who are the big winners going to be? It’s Shape of Water vs. Three Billboards in the battle to be named Best Picture.

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BAFTAs 2018 – Final predictions for the UK’s biggest film awards ceremony

18/02/201819/02/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Awards Season 2018, BAFTAs, BAFTAs 2018, Christopher Nolan, Daniel Kaluuya, Dunkirk, Frances McDormand, Francis Lee, Gary Oldman, Get Out, God's Own Country, Hugh Grant, Joanna Lumley, Lady Macbeth, Lesley Manville, Martin McDonagh, Paddington 2, Phantom Thread, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

The BAFTAs 2018 take place tonight, but which films and performers will be walking away from the Royal Albert Hall with prizes?

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VIDEO – Oscar Bait is Not a Real Thing

29/01/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Awards Season 2018, Colin Firth, Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman, Jean Dujardin, Meryl Streep, Oscars, Oscars 2018, Steven Spielberg, The Artist, The King's Speech, The Post, Tom Hanks, Video

I examine the idea of Oscar bait and the way the concept is used to talk down about films that do well during the Oscars and awards season generally.

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 89 – Does Three Billboards deserve its status as an Oscars frontrunner?

23/01/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Alicia Vikander, Avengers: Infinity War, Darkest Hour, Flashpoint, Gary Oldman, Insidious: The Last Key, John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein, Martin McDonagh, Podcast, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tomb Raider

We review Oscar contenders Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Darkest Hour on this week’s podcast.

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Review – Darkest Hour

16/01/201816/01/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Ben Mendelsohn, Certificate: PG, Darkest Hour, Drama, Gary Oldman, January 2018, Joe Wright, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Rating: Poop, Ronald Pickup, Stephen Dillane, War

Gary Oldman dons a tonne of makeup and prosthetics to portray a physically convincing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.

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News Round-up – Golden Globe winners, BAFTA and DGA noms, DiCaprio joins Manson movie and more

15/01/201818/01/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment BAFTAs, BAFTAs 2018, Channing Tatum, DGA Awards, Ellen Page, Francis Lawrence, Gambit, Gary Oldman, Golden Globes, Golden Globes 2018, Gore Verbinski, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marvel, News, News Round-up, Oprah Winfrey, Quentin Tarantino, Red Sparrow, Scarlett Johansson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tim Miller

Awards season is in full swing this week and there’s also a lot of stopping and starting in the world of superheroes.

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Review – The Hitman’s Bodyguard

31/08/201704/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, August 2017, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Élodie Yung, Gary Oldman, Patrick Hughes, Rating: Poop, Richard E Grant, Ryan Reynolds, Salma Hayek, Samuel L Jackson, The Hitman's Bodyguard

Ryan Reynolds quips a lot, Samuel L Jackson swears a lot… and that’s about it in bland comedy actioner The Hitman’s Bodyguard.

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Review – The Space Between Us

28/02/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Asa Butterfield, BD Wong, Britt Robertson, Carla Gugino, Certificate: 12, February 2017, Gary Oldman, Janet Montgomery, Peter Chelsom, Rating: Poop, Romance, Sci-Fi, The Space Between Us

This saccharine sci-fi romance is a bizarre film in search of a coherent plot.

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