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I've been following along earlier and more closely this year. Great to see 'Wicked: For Good' make the shortlists in technical categories, might not be as dead as thought from it missing a couple of major categories at precursors (Cynthia not in at Critics Choice, not in at Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical at the Globes) What I'm hearing is that the supporting categories are pretty open this year, but Timothee looks like a safe bet for his first Oscar in Best Actor, and Jessie Buckley has had Best Actress sewn up for a while for 'Hamnet' ( @Tafty to confirm)

Not 'Ella McCay' missing the top 15 - a bad time for movies where the title is a woman's name (I guess that can also apply to 'Eleanor the Great', but that one isn't a surprise to me as it seems to be a very small movie/release considering it's directed by Scarlett Johansson) Based on the showing I went to, the answer is underage kids! It's rated 15 but when I went on Sunday evening, there were two separate family groups that included kids/teens that were clearly under 15. At first I wondered if they'd wandered into the wrong screen by mistake (not sure about anyone else, but from my experience that seems surprisingly common)

I thought it was normally a December show, though having just checked, I see that it was a split-season affair last year and slightly earlier in the year. This is one of my favourite Netflix shows, excited to have it back.

I think this is the worst opening I've ever seen for a movie that I saw the trailer for SO much. I swear I saw it before everything I went to see for about 3 months. I know I'm just one person and maybe trailers vary across the country/cinema chains, and I don't go and see everything, but compare it to say 'Eternity' this week, I didn't see a trailer for that once yet the opening weekend is 7x better. Hope that Sydney Sweeney doesn't cause 'The Housemaid' to bomb at the end of this month too.

Most excited by the look of the opening heat based on names - Jacqline and A*Teens both with songs written by Dino/Jimmy Jansson/Cazzi/G:son Plus Greczula I really enjoyed this year, and there's a Laurell Barker co-write in the heat. Smash Into Pieces appear to be top of the initial odds, but I don't see it unless they've changed things up a bit (though I didn't expect the lazy re-write to manage another 3rd for them in 2024). My money would be on Greczula to come through with the "act who gets a good result on debut, then comes back the following year and wins" formula, but maybe we're in for another KAJ and the winning song is with the act we'd least expect.

'Christy' didn't even make the top 15? Oh Sydney Sweeney, your power. That's crazy as I know everyone hates her now and it bombed massively in the US, but I saw the trailer for it LOADS.

I had no idea that Jon M Chu directed Now You See Me 2, that makes the top 2 this week amusing Relieved that there's more love for Wicked in the UK than there is for Minecraft! I'm on holiday from Friday to Monday, and there are three movies being released this weekend that are essential watches for me ('Zootropolis 2', 'Christy' and 'Pillion' - plus I wouldn't mind checking out 'Blue Moon' if I get chance as I'm hearing buzz that Ethan Hawke could sneak an Oscar nom for it). The battle between Zootropolis 2 and week 2 of Wicked could be interesting.

I enjoyed the finale and the entire series, and can't wait to see what names they manage to get for a second series considering the huge success that this one has been, but I can't believe that anyone was willing to end the game with Alan still in. I love him, but the way he burst out laughing whilst trying to say "I am a faithful" at the end of the previous episode, it just boggles my mind that they didn't banish him.

Really impressed with that hold for "Regretting You"! I loved it personally, but the reviews are pretty poor so I didn't expect it to hold up that well, guess the lack of major competition helped. I'm pleased it's now ahead of the total of Springsteen, and that that is tracking behind "Better Man". What a bore of a biopic.

This is a fun concept! Anything involving 2024 and 2025 was an educated or total guess but it's a good format for being able to (hopefully) get a bit lucky a few times.

Ruth best not be murdered because she NEEDS to be at the roundtable when Jonathan gets banished and it's revealed that she's been bang on. 100% here for Jonathan being the first traitor to go. Feel bad for Tameka, don't know why they really went after her, it was just Mark with his suspicions and then her defending herself? Didn't feel like there was much evidence. Surprised Clare is already off the hook for her slip up in the first task.

Just catching up and when I said this in the other thread, "Flo RiDavid Guetta" was one of the two that I was confident on 😂 It worked as a smash and I just assumed it was another dance act. Can't believe some people got Ida Corr but didn't recognise Eurovision legend Flo Rida 😭 But omg, Emma Buntonight tonight was a complete fluke (I don't even think this is the one I considered I might 'luck out on', that's still to come 😁), I obviously knew Emma and then just came up with something that could smash with her surname and I'd recently been reminded of the hit by Hot Chelle Rae.

Oh I can't WAIT for that All-Stars season to happen (actually no, CBS please don't, no amount of pot stirring is worth having to put up with another season of Vince, I've seen enough of that man to last a lifetime)

Glad someone else paid tribute to such an ICONIC song @Calum

Charles Leclerc not the most successful Monegasque sportsperson of the year Yeah, I wouldn't put much weight in this result for how he's going to perform going forward, given fatigue of those who've played so many matches/tournaments this year and the tough conditions out in Shanghai, but what a fairytale run, and what a story given it was two unseeded cousins battling it out in the final.

Did expect a quicker pace given nine episodes, but it makes sense that there was probably something written in contracts/they want to get their moneys worth out of these celebs. An overnight cliffhanger is fine, very annoying if you need to wait almost a week though. Thankful I only had time to catch up on episode 2 this morning!

At least it started with an easy picture 😁 I couldn't name a Metallica song from the top of my head so just guessed at a random word that could be formed from the end of her surname

There's not going to be any logic to the first murder (outside of it being a woman), due to the difficulty in pulling it off. But if I had to pick who I'd be least sad to lose this early, probably Lucy. Don't feel like she had much screen time at all (possibly edited that way intentionally if she happens to be first out)

I've only just finished the season after being on holiday during the last couple of episodes, and I'm delighted with this outcome as Ashley is the one I liked from the start. Vince, I respect his comp game, but I did NOT want to see him win as I thought in part he was manipulated by various people/playing Morgan's game, I didn't like his crying, his lying, I thought he had his fingers in too many pies and wish he'd stood by his decisions more. It's funny how Lauren particularly didn't vote for him to win (it was always confusing how this man had two women obsessed with him??). His most iconic moment was trying to follow up Ashley's speech and job reveal by starting with "well, I really am unemployed", and tbf he did have the best zing from Zingbot. I did love how Morgan won NOTHING for weeks, and then suddenly it felt like she was winning EVERYTHING. She would've made a great winner, but I wasn't always on board with her (whilst Mickey was in the house, really, and it seemed like she had Rachel as a target). It's iconic that our winner almost went home in the first week because of a two hour shower, and that she won the first veto and then nothing else until the final HOH. Legendary behaviour. It was very funny seeing two comp beasts fall apart in part 2 and part 3 of the final HOH, whilst Ashley was correct on all the questions that were asked. Let's just mention AFP though....how was Ava not even a top 3 vote getter? Keanu winning it with such a big margin?! I didn't hate the guy but boy, I think America must have been watching a different show to me.

I thought Australia series 2 was iconic, one of the highlights of the franchise (from those I've seen). An absolutely legendary ending to the game, and I thought Sam made a good villain. I wouldn't say I liked him, but I did like the traitor on traitor violence.

Quite happy that I managed to get two in full that I can be confident on as they make sense as a smash, and as answers 🤣 There might be a third that I luck out on as I just guessed a song that smashed well with the act that I recognised.

What a sad little life, Max. You ruined my quali completely so you could have the pole. I changed out of my Piastri hoodie in preparation for heading out straight after quali, and then his crash came about two minutes later. I'm sorry, I'm blaming myself.

I really enjoyed both "Falling for Christmas" and "Irish Wish". I assume you've seen "Freaky Friday" if you like Lindsay, and it just didn't make this top 20? Because the sequel that came out last month is amazing too. Only seen a couple of movies from this top 20, but "She's the Man" is an all time favourite of mine ❤️

I can't believe that Rachel, a previous queen of comps, is of all people the one to go home due to failing a comp..... Feel like we've been robbed of a legend sitting in the eviction chairs and either being voted out or winning for a second time. On one hand I think it feels worse because it wasn't supposed to play out like that, Morgan chose her to try and keep her safe with everyone else up until that point having plenty of time left, but then Rachel appeared to be really bad and not really getting the hang of it so it's on her as well. Meh, Ava all the way for me from this point on. If it wasn't bad enough that Rachel went home due to a twist, we also had to see Tyler

Delighted that Alcaraz won, and now hopefully he has a lengthy stint as world #1 and overtakes the number of weeks that Sinner held the position. Draper is sitting out the remainder of the season to recover from his arm injury. ☹️