New Year, New Awards!

Eddie Redmayne in The Theory Of Everything

There's a reason why I love the turn of the new year; the later months of 2014, mixed together with the first couple of 2015. Not just because Christmas has just been and we're still in that overly full, overly spoilt and over-joyed stupor. Nor is it because it's the start of a new chapter, thus presenting a fresh new start. No, it's because the movies that are released around that time are normally of high calibre, and that's because it's a time we movie-nerds like to call "award season". 

Judged: Emmy Nominations 2014

This may not come as a shock after seeing the content of my blog, but I am a massive award show buff and try to watch every single ceremony related to such subjects or at least try and know everything about them if I can't in fact, watch them. After all, I am the girl that pleaded with her Mum to ring up Sky and request they give us the movie channels for a night just so I could watch the Oscars. (It worked though, don't judge).

And because I watch a crazy amount of television shows, I always feel a little more involved with the ones that focus on that category, like the Emmy's for example. I feel like because I've actually watched 99% of the shows that are in the running for awards, I feel like I can judge it a little more than film awards. 

So when they announced all of the nominees for the 2014 Emmy Awards, I couldn't help but pick holes in the nominations I really didn't agree with. I always come to the conclusion that the Emmy's just can't let go of some shows that they clearly think are still good but most viewers have switched off and gotten bored. Biased about their noms much? In this years case, I sadly think so. So here's the lowdown of the things I think are totally wrong (and right) about this year's nominations...

12 Years a Slave review: McQueen leaves the indie movies behind on his way to getting that little golden statue

In a time when cinema is inundated with films like Avengers Assemble, Free Birds and The Wolfpack Trilogy, it's easy to forget sometimes that some films are meant to evoke. Hit you hard, make you think and make you feel. 12 Years A Slave, based on the true story of a black man living in the 1800's is that, and then some.

"The Good Stuff" season is upon us!

Towards the end of the year, cinemas always see an influx of what I like to call "the good stuff movies". Ready for Oscar nominations in the turn of the new year, directors, actors, screenwriters and special effects teams bring out the big guns to impress, which means us audiences get some film gems towards the Christmas months!

I've already seen a few of these types of films emerging and it's only October! So I thought I'd break down a bunch of films that I already think will get some kind of Oscar tip next year...