The Oscars 2026 winners are in. We got 3 out of 4 right, but our bold Best Picture call fell short. Here’s the full breakdown.
March 16, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Oscars 2026 Winners: How Our Predictions Scored 3 Out of 4
March 15, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Oscars 2026 Predictions: Our Team Picks for Tonight’s Academy Awards
The 98th Academy Awards kick off tonight, and the whole CoolCuration team has pooled our collective brainpower to produce our Oscars 2026 predictions across the four biggest categories. We've weighed up precursor awards, prediction market data, gut instinct and a healthy dose of wishful thinking to land on our picks. One of them goes firmly against the bookmakers. Read on to see where we're putting our (hypothetical) money, and we'll be back tomorrow with a follow-up to see how spectacularly right (or wrong) we were.
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January 11, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Hamnet Film Review: A Breathtaking, Heartbreaking Triumph
Last updated: 26 March 2026
This is an opinion piece. Views expressed are the author's own and do not constitute professional advice.
This Hamnet film review has been a long time coming. When Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning 2020 novel landed, it felt like the kind of book that would resist adaptation entirely. Too interior, too sensory, too delicately constructed. And then Chloé Zhao signed on to direct, Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley were cast, and suddenly the prospect became very real. The result, now available on Prime Video and on DVD/Blu-ray in the UK, is one of the most emotionally powerful films of recent years. It is not flawless, but its final minutes are nothing short of extraordinary.
Cool Factor: 4/5 — Stone cold
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