Eurovision season is back. A lot of songs have been decided either as contestants in the national final or from internal selections from the network. This season, there has been a lot of news of all the disqualifications that have happened. I think this is the Eurovision season with the most disqualifications or the most replacements. All I can say is Eurovision and the various national finals are prone to having similar ugliness to that in the music business. It doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the winners like we always do.

Normally each year when they show the reel of the nominated films for Best Animated Short Film, there’s normally enough time in the reel to include one or two films that made the shortlist. T…

With the Oscar nominations come the annual showing of the nominated short films. Once again, I had the luck of seeing the short films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards. Only one is an …

The thing about the Oscars is that each year, there are Best Picture nominees for films of subject matter that most people would normally not want to see. In some cases, films of unwatchable subjec…

At first I intended for my Best Picture blogs to be three in total. When it became clear how much writing I did for the first two films, I decided dividing them into blogs of two reviews each is mo…

Ten is not a set number for the number of Best Pictures nominees. Nevertheless it’s still nice to have ten as the total of nominees. This year, there are a wide variety of films nominated fro…