PREDICTIONS: 90th ACADEMY AWARDS PREDICTIONS

Last year I made some Oscar predictions - which by the way, I got 20 out of 24 correct - and because I am so great at these predictions.. and I've spent so long reviewing all the Oscar films, so I could talk about them now. I am going to do the main categories at …

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REVIEWBRUARY [DAY 13]: WONDER WOMAN 7.5 – B+

SYNOPSIS After her impressive "introduction" in the massively unimpressive Batman vs Superman, Wonder Woman was top of many's most looking forward to 2017 list, including mine, which you can find here. Set in 1917, we meet Diana Prince (Gal Gadot), the daughter of the Queen of the Amazonian island of Themyscia. The island is hidden, …

REVIEWBRUARY [DAY 2]: KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE. 5.5/10; GRADE: C

SYNOPSIS Kingsman: The Golden Circle is the 2017 sequel to the surprise hit of 2014. Golden Circle continues Eggsy's adventures as a Kingsman until an organisation shattering event pushes him out of his comfort zone, leaving him, his family and his country in danger. This sequel aims to go bigger and better, expanding across the pond …

REVIEWBRUARY [DAY 1]: GET OUT 8.5/10 – A

SYNOPSIS Get Out is the 2017 directional debut of Jordan Peele; one half of the infamous Key & Peele. Get Out follows Chris Washington [Daniel Kaluuya] and Rose Armitage [Allison Williams] an interracial couple who are about to face any couple's nightmare; meeting her parents. After what seems as "skeptical thinking", it soon turns out …

REVIEWED: BRIGHT 6/10 [C+]

Netflix's "Bright" is a 2017 feature length film (yes, film!) directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad), starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. Set in a mystical world, where fairies, elves and orcs live among humans, Bright aims to explore the relationships between these "races". Smith stars as Officer Daryl Ward, an in-debt, struggling father recovering …

REVIEWED: MARVEL’S THOR RAGNAROK – 8.6/10 an A-. [SPOILER FREE]

SPOILER- FREE Marvel's Thor Ragnarok is the third instalment in the Thor franchise released in October 2017. It seems Thor has done a lot since we last saw him in 2015, but yet he has done nothing. Thor Ragnarok follows the protagonist, as he struggles with his identity after it is stripped as he knows, …

REVIEWED: LOGAN 8.5/10

SPOILER- FREE Logan is a 2017 film based on the Wolverine character played by Hugh Jackman. Wolverine has ruled over the X-Men franchise - becoming as synonymous and significant as RDJ and Iron Man to the MCU. Logan follows an older Wolverine as he fights his inner demons whilst trying to do right by his …

REVIEWED: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. 6/10

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales or Salazar's Revenge (or whatever they are calling it now) is the fifth instalment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Starring Johnny Depp as the legendary Captain Jack Sparrow, Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa and Javier Bardem as the villainous Salazar. If you are …

REVIEWED: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 ¦¦8/10 ¦¦

SPOILERS AHEAD - BE WARNED So, here we are. Two years after the second Avengers movie and with one year left until the supposedly big battle against Thanos. My intial thoughts on the film if I was being really critical was that it wasn't better than the first. I can't say that GOTG2 was bad …

REVIEWED: DOCTOR STRANGE 8/10

Dr Strange is the 2016 blockbuster from Marvel. I have been meaning to do a review of it - but I thought my blog was becoming to 'comic book-ly'. I was just writing about comic book films and I wanted to explore other territories, like TV shows and Oscar winning films. But I feel like …