The Quite Nerdy Blog

In about a month, we are going to be blessed  burdened with a big budget, gritty Power Rangers reboot. We still have no idea what realm of quality it's going to fall into but that doesn't mean we haven't had hints. From those hints, we've picked up that really, it's going to be a fairly shit film. I mean, Power Rangers worked as a children's show because it was laughably low budget, fully cheesy and fully aware of how naff it was. Plus, it was made for seven year olds who could watch just about anything for half an hour. A lot of that gets lost in a self serious remake but I have hope that it'll be enjoyably naff. This years Nine Lives if we're lucky. The bit that has me equal parts worried and excited is the odd moments of humour from the most recent trailer. A "stand out" moment would probably be when the girl is telling her mum that she's a superhero, at which point the mother asks her to piss in a cup. It's a drugs joke. Becau...

After the last minute rush to go see every Oscar film and pushing this list back to a Thursday, my final predictions are here. This year, I've seen more of the big name nominees than ever before which I hope makes my predictions more accurate. Still, there are some I haven't seen and there is no guaranteed way of guessing everything correctly. With that in mind though, here are my predictions for what will win and what I think should actually end up winning. Those may cross over occasionally but I'm going to try and keep them different. Best Original Song: Audition (The Fools Who Dream) performed by Emma Stone from La La Land Can't Stop the Feeling performed by Justin Timberlake from Trolls The Empty Chair performed by Sting from Jim: The James Foley Story Should Win:How Far I'll Go performed by Auli'i Cravalho from Moana Will Win: City of Stars performed by Ryan Gosling from La La Land Starting with a category I all of a sudden care about this ye...

Moonlight is an utterly beautiful film. There's not much questioning that and if you haven't seen it already, please stop reading, go out and watch it. I'm not going to include any spoilers in my review, I just think you should take the time to experience it yourself before reading what other people have to say about it. The story that Moonlight weaves is one that is intensely personal in a way no other film at this years Oscars is. It is focused around the life of a boy named Chiron who lives in Florida as he gradually grows to accept who he is and what his place in the world is and is told in three separate acts, each time with Chiron played by a different actor. We see him as a young boy, quiet and being tossed around on the waves of life, a teenager who is starting to understand himself but unsure what to do with that information and as a young man trying to fight what he knows he is. Think of it as a cross between Boyhood and the Brian Wilson biopic Love and Mercy,...

Lion is another true story that's been nominated for loads of Oscars alongside about half of the other contenders (Hacksaw Ridge, Hidden Figures, Jackie) and while it doesn't quite have the same effect on me as the films there that I've seen, it's still a worthwhile watch. It's the story of a young boy who, while out with his brother one day, gets separated from him and ends up on a train to Calcutta. Eventually he is adopted by an Australian family and spends his teenage years with them. Eventually however, he decides he wants to return back home but due to his young age when he left, he is unable to remember where he came from so he turns to Google Earth. Credit to the film, it makes that plot and the scenes of browsing Google Earth really interesting. It isn't all perfect, there's a bit of flab in the story and could do with a bit more editing but the transference of this story onto the big screen was done really well. Acting, as with many of the f...

Hacksaw Ridge is the new film from Hollywood's favourite ex-racist, ex-sexist and ex- crazy actor turned director Mel Gibson and makes a compelling case for separating the artist from the art. It's the story of Desmond Doss, an American who wants to help in the Second World War but due to his religious beliefs he won't touch a gun. Instead, determined to help his country, he becomes a field medic and saves the men in his infantry. The film is essentially split into two halves, the first is a Full Metal Jacket type training course where he prepares for action and has to fight for his beliefs, the second being the battle at the eponymous Hacksaw Ridge. This should create a disjointed film but each half actually serves to compliment the other beautiuflly. From a story perspective, I cannot fault this film at all. In fact, I can't fault it in many more ways. In regards to acting, I expected to only praise Andrew Garfield but I find myself having to praise pretty much ...