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Round two: this week, less action, a bit more emotion and only a tad more crying. That's right, it's Room (not The Room). Room is the story of a mother who was abducted at a young age and had a little boy named Jack. They live together in a tiny Room which Ma's abductee keeps them in and it's the only world Jack has ever known. The story goes deeper than that but I don't want to go any further because watching the trailers gave away far too much for me and the story in this movie is best enjoyed knowing as little as possible because I felt that I'd lost something from the experience. I wouldn't go as far to say that the story is what's most important though. What's most important is the sentiment in each carefully structured moment from Emma Donoghue in her lovely adaptation of a book I've heard nothing but praise from. Like I was saying, the story isn't what you'll care about in this film because this film is held up by a phenomena...

Today I actually did a double review spectacular type thing by going to see two movies but I wanted to artificially pad my blog out a little bit and work is hard and super time consuming. What this means for you is that this week you get my review of The Revenant and then make sure you come back next week for my review of Room (not The Room). I plan on doing Creed in two weeks but we'll see. Right, let's watch Leonardo DiCaprio get mauled by a fake bear! The Revenant is the story of Hugo Glass (the beloved Leo DiCap), a hunter in America during the 19th century. Winter is coming and it's all starting to get a bit cold when their group of hunters are attacked by some Indians. While on the run, our boy Hugo gets mauled by a bear and is left for dead by his crew, primarily Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). It all goes tits up pretty much and we spend most of the film following Glass' quest to get revenge on the man who left him for dead. The story starts off simply but it evolve...

It's Oscar month here on the blog and while it's not wall to wall Oscar coverage this year, we're still going pretty full on. Similar to last year, I'm going to predict the nominations today, review a few of the biggest competitors over the next few weeks and then finally predict the winners before the ceremony. There will be a few other posts to keep it fresh, like some speculation on House of Cards and Deadpool also comes out soon which I can't ignore. For now though, I hope you like Oscars and Oscar talk because it's going to be a lot of that. As ever, most of these films haven't even come out in England yet so expect plenty of rampant speculation. Best Special Effects Star Wars: The Force Awakens Mad Max: Fury Road Ant Man I like this category but really only because it means some of the sillier yet fun action films get recognition and are technically Oscar winners. I have a feeling all of these films will get a nomination. Star Wars is sti...

Now it's time for TV, one of the harder lists I do. I tend not to find out what TV I'm going to love until I find it so it's mainly speculation here but let's give it a shot anyway. And to clarify, I didn't deliberately keep all the new shows together and all of Netflix's shows together. It just happened. Also, any shows that didn't seem likely to make the 2016 window haven't made it which is why there's no third seasons here for Rick and Morty or Fargo. 7. Vinyl Having finished Mad Men last year, I've been craving a new period drama to sink my teeth into and I feel like Vinyl is going to scratch that itch. I don't know much about it but I know it's about producers trying to find top tier artists to make new and amazing music in the 70s but with names like Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese behind this, I can't see it being anything less than an entertaining mess. If they harness their potential though, this could be a smash hit ...