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Florence Pugh as WWE star Paige in Fighting With My Family

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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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Chris Pratt is back as the voice of Emmet in The Lego Movie 2

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast – “Branagh has a huge prosthetic nose; Rosa Salazar has big CGI eyes”

18/02/201917/02/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Alita: Battle Angel, All is True, Awards Season 2019, BAFTAs, BAFTAs 2019, Barry Jenkins, Chris Miller, Danny Boyle, Frozen 2, If Beale Street Could Talk, James Cameron, Kenneth Branagh, Oscars, Oscars 2019, Phil Lord, Podcast, Richard Curtis, Rosa Salazar, The Lego Movie, The Lego Movie 2, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Yesterday

On the latest Popcorn Muncher Podcast, we review a blockbuster double bill of The Lego Movie 2 and Alita: Battle Angel.

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Samuel L Jackson reprises his Unbreakable role in M Night Shyamalan's Glass

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 133 – “Turns out I can’t listen to Sarah Paulson read the phone book”

28/01/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 91st Academy Awards, Beautiful Boy, Bruce Willis, Fyre, Glass, James McAvoy, M Night Shyamalan, Netflix, Oscars, Oscars 2019, Podcast, Samuel L Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Steve Carell, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Timothée Chalamet

We review M Night Shyamalan’s absurd superhero crossover Glass, awards-bothering drama Beautiful Boy and Netflix’s Fyre Festival doc.

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John Cho stars in screen-based mystery thriller Searching

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 118 – Is Searching the best of the computer screen movies?

10/09/201809/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Aneesh Chaganty, Burt Reynolds, Cold War, Halloween, Idris Elba, John Cho, Leigh Whannell, Logan Marshall-Green, Oscars, Paweł Pawlikowski, Podcast, Searching, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Upgrade, Yardie

We review screen-based mystery thriller Searching, Idris Elba’s Yardie, sci-fi actioner Upgrade and the period romance Cold War.

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast – Oscars 2018 Reaction

05/03/201805/03/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 90th Academy Awards, Frances McDormand, Get Out, Guillermo del Toro, Jordan Peele, Oscars, Oscars 2018, Podcast, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

The 90th Academy Awards are in the books and we’ve recorded an immediate reaction podcast, discussing every moment of Oscars 2018.

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Guillermo del Toro accepts the Oscar for Best Picture for The Shape of Water

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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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Predictions for the 90th Academy Awards

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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Three Billboards and The Shape of Water are battling for the Best Picture Oscar

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VIDEO – Three Billboards vs. Shape of Water in the battle of Oscars 2018 maths

03/03/201805/03/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Awards Season 2018, Guillermo del Toro, Martin McDonagh, Oscars, Oscars 2018, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Video

It’s the closest Oscar race in years, but can maths help us to predict who will win Best Picture?

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Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird

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Oscars 2018 – Best Picture Power Rankings (Awards Week)

28/02/201802/03/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Awards Season 2018, Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Oscars, Oscars 2018, Oscars Power Rankings 2018, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

It’s the week of the Oscars 2018, but who is in pole position to bag the coveted award for Best Picture?

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Fionn Whitehead plays a soldier stranded on a French beach in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk

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Oscars 2018 – Best Picture Power Rankings (Feb 21)

21/02/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Awards Season 2018, Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Oscars, Oscars 2018, Oscars Power Rankings 2018, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

The BAFTAs were a good night for some of the Oscar nominees and may have marked an end for the chances of others.

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Sally Hawkins stars in Guillermo del Toro monster movie The Shape of Water

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Oscars 2018 – Best Picture Power Rankings (Feb 14)

14/02/201813/02/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Awards Season 2018, Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Oscars, Oscars 2018, Oscars Power Rankings 2018, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

The WGA Awards have seen one film go soaring right into the mix on this week’s Oscars 2018 power rankings.

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