Perth Words… exploring possibilities.

As with almost every other category this year,La La Land is going to be the one to beat. While Justin Hurwitz is probably going to win a statue for Best Original Score, he faces a bit of a challenge in the Original Song category. He is in fact nominated twice for Best Original Song, so it’s possible that one might cancel out the other.

Among his contenders are some pretty big names: Sting, Justin Timberlake and Lin-Manuel Miranda, so at least the performances on Oscars night should be decent (we shall see how Ryan Gosling fares when he has to sing live).

Justin Hurwitz, “City of Stars”, La La Land

Justin Hurwitz, “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)”, La La Land

Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster, “Can’t Stop the Feeling”, Trolls

J. Ralph and Sting, “The Empty Chair”, Jim: The James…

OUTBACK BLAZE

Author: Rachael Johns
Harlequin MIRA Aus RRP $29.99
Review: Monique Mulligan

Rachael Johns is fast cementing her place as a romance writer to watch in Australia and I sense there are big things in store for her as she stretches her writing wings further. Outback Blaze, the second in her Bunyip Bay series, is an immensely likeable book and will win her many new fans, as well as keeping her established fan base crying out for more.

Readers of Outback Dreams would not have been surprised by the decision to focus on secondary characters Ruby and Drew this time around; Johns cleverly set that up in the first book, and the signs are there in Outback Blaze for the focus of the next romance in the upcoming Outback Ghost. It’s cleverly done, without being overt. Back to Ruby and Drew … here there are two characters hiding or recovering from events in…

The Film:Hacksaw Ridge

The Pitch:The Passion of the Sergeant York

Number of Nominations: 6

Which Categories? Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing

Will it Win? Welcome Home, Mel Gibson … it’s been too long. Sure, you had a few problems, what with your drunken rants about Jews and the whole sugar-tits thing and your general air of awfulness and bigotry, but this is Hollywood, and we have a short memory, and we just love comeback stories, and you’ve been in the wilderness for so many years now, none  of us can quite remember what you were doing there, and we hate to see your talents wasted in shitty B movies, and we love war movies and simplistic tales of heroism, and frankly, things are getting a little too diverse this year, if you know what I mean, so to keep things equal…