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Leading up to the April 14 premiere of the final, six-episode eighth season of HBO’s massive hit series Game of Thrones, Pop Culture Maniacs will be rewatching the entire series (season by season) and writing on how each season fares in light of all that we know now (and thoughts about how the major plot […]
Last month the Marvel Cinematic Universe released Captain Marvel – but it is not the only film based on a character called that. Warner Brothers and DC give audiences they offering with Shazam! Billy Batson (Asher Angel) is a 14-year-old troublemaker that runs away from foster homes. Billy is given one last chance when he is placed in […]
Based on the story of an unlikely group of fishermen earning a record contract Fisherman’s Friends is the film tailored made for middle-class audiences across the British Isles. Danny (Daniel Mays) is a London based record producer who goes to Cornwall for a stag weekend. Whilst in the picturesque village of Port Isaac the party discover a group of fishermen who sing sea […]
Leading up to the April 14 premiere of the final, six-episode eighth season of HBO’s massive hit series Game of Thrones, Pop Culture Maniacs will be rewatching the entire series (season by season) and writing on how each season fares in light of all that we know now (and thoughts about how the major plot […]
Jordan Peele made a real impact with his directional debut Get Out, a film that is a part of the current horror renaissance. His follow-up film was highly anticipated and has already been praised by critics. Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) is a woman who suffered from a traumatic event when she was a child. Her past comes back […]
What Men Want is gender swap remake of the forgettable 2000 rom-com What Women Wants. This was a project that few people wanted and the final product was not worth it. Alison “Ali” Davis (Taraji P. Henson) is a gifted sports agent who believes she’s going to be made a partner. When this doesn’t come to be Ali goes out […]
Boy bands were all the rage back in the ’90s, including Take That. The latest episode of Derry Girls looks at the Take That phenomenon in a wacky adventure. The girls and James are excited to go to the Take That concert in Belfast. Their families refuse to let them go when news breaks that a polar bear has escaped […]
Cheat is a thriller miniseries set within a prestigious university that shows an escalating rivalry between a lecturer and her student. Leah Dale (Katherine Kelly) is a sociology lecturer who accuses one of her students, Rose Vaughn (Molly Windsor) of cheating for final year’s dissertation. When Rose is unable to prove the works she sets out […]
Leading up to the April 14 premiere of the final, six-episode eighth season of HBO’s massive hit series Game of Thrones, Pop Culture Maniacs will be rewatching the entire series (season by season) and writing on how each season fares in light of all that we know now (and thoughts about how the major plot […]
2018 saw the release of two films about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The first was critically acclaimed documentary RBG and the more recent film was the dramatisation about one of her most famous court cases. On the Basis of Sex follows Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) from her days as a Harvard Law Student to her landmark case which sets out to […]