Film and Theatre Lover!
I received a fantastic email last night to be told that I have made it onto the list of Top Entertainment and Movie Blogs of 2017 from The Writers Awards.
I made it as number 11 on the top 12 list, which is something I am very thrilled about!
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You may (or may not) remember that earlier this year I was put in 7th place in Vuelio’s list of Top 10 UK Film Blogs. Was is an incredible achievement considering the size of the other blogs I was listed with! Plus moving up from 10th place from the previous year.
I have a confession to make I missed my blog-versary marking the 8th year since I started Let’s Go To The Movies.
Which was the 9th February 2009!
It has been a pretty incredible adventure so far, here is to many more years in the film and theatre blogging world!
Thank you to everyone who reads, likes, comments and shares. Both on the blog and via Twitter!
Over the past few weeks I have found myself mentioning this to people on Twitter who had absolutely no idea what I was going on about. On IMDb – Internet Movie Database although I am sure you already knew that part. You can add your Film or TV Series reviews onto the external review part of the site.
I am pretty sure I just saw someone else mention it and started doing it then. Well, worth taking a little bit of time to put all of your reviews onto the site. I get around 15/20 clicks from IMDb by having my reviews in external reviews. I think it will probably be something that becomes even more popular with the announcement that they are closing down the messages boards. I guess both good and bad reasons behind that, but that is a totally different issue. I am here to help you expand your blog and get more people reading your reviews that you take a lot of time and effort to write.
I will take you on a step by step guide and honestly once you’ve submitted a couple of reviews it takes seconds to update!
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I need your help for the UK Blog Awards 2017! The voting has now opened and I need as many votes as possible to be in with a chance of winning an award. It will only take you a few seconds to enter your name and email address which will give me a vote!
If you regularly visit my blog I would really appreciate your support in this! Just click on the image below and it will take you to the place to VOTE for Let’s Go To The Movies!
Thank you for your continued support throughout 2016!
So Markus decided to be lovely and nominate me for (https://themarckoguy.wordpress.com) the Sunshine blogger award. Thank you very much Markus!
Post the award on your blog
Thank the person who nominated you
Answer the 11 questions they set you
Pick another 11 bloggers (and let them know they are nominated!)
Give them 11 questions
And now I shall answers the questions given to me (and 10 other people) by Markus.
Please take a few moments of your time to vote for Let’s Go To The Movies to win a UK Blog Award!
The category I am entered in is Arts and Culture . . . Due to blogging about Cinema/Film and Theatre.
If you could kindly support me click the link below and vote!
http://blogawardsuk.co.uk/ukba2016/my-entry/lets-go-movies#votenow
Voting is from Monday 4th January 2016 until Monday 25th January 2016 at 9pm
You can vote once per day using the same email address so please bookmark the page and vote every day for Let’s Go To The Movies!
Help me have a good start to 2016, thanks Caz!
A few days ago whilst on Twitter something came to my attention during the #NorthEastHour that for the first time ever ‘The North East Blogger Awards’ is going to take place. So I decided that the best way to get the information out there and ask for you to vote for me for me in the lifestyle category! If you did not already know I am from and still live in South Shields. A small seaside town in the North East of England between Newcastle and Sunderland. Probably most well-known for being the finish line of the Great North Run?
Basically all you need to do is head to the website … here scroll down the page a little and enter my blog details to vote for me to win! I would really appreciate if you could do this as find this a fantastic idea for all of the people based in the North East of England who blog!
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Yesterday when checking my blog I received the above notification wishing me a Happy Anniversary with WordPress! I was very shocked when it said 6 years as I didn’t think that I’d created my account that long ago. I was under the impression that I created me account not long before I launched Let’s Go To The Movies which was in February 2009. I also thought this was the first blog I ran on WordPress so maybe I had the idea in mind a couple of years before eventually going for it with this blog? I am a little confused in all honesty!
While on this matter I did miss posting my Happy 4 Years to Let’s Go To The Movies back in February so thought I’d just talk a little in this blog post. I have managed to review a lot of films recently (mainly from Netflix and the odd cinema release). Something which I had been slacking in at times during last year. I think as a film blogger you sometimes go through phases where you don’t have the time to write reviews or seem to lose your voice a little. I think sometimes certain films are much harder to review than others, I am sure you can all understand what I mean with that!
I have been aware that I haven’t managed to do any lists recently and decided that the way forward is to find as many blogathon’s as possible and really get involved in some posts which require more thought as well as comparing to fellow bloggers. So if you have or know of any Blogathon’s currently taking place or that will be taking place in the future, please let me know! I am hoping this year I will manage to be creative enough to start my own Blogathon!
Writing a movie review . . . where to start?
Well this has to be the main reason for this blog, so that I can write my own movie reviews and see if people agree or disagree with what I say about them. So most of this post is going out to my fellow movie review bloggers. How easily do you find it to review a movie?
My answer to that question is it depends how much I like or get from the movie. Some reviews are difficult and take days and days to write. Where as some can actually be done in 15-20 minutes and the words just flow. These are often movies I have really enjoyed and/or related to in some way. I find that so easy to write a long review in such a short period of time.
I also find it difficult sometimes if you do not start the review right away, again this is for movies which I did not enjoy as much or really get anything from. I have to admit I have a few movies like that in my draft section at the moment. It’s just really difficult sometimes to review a movie. Do you agree?
When writing a review I try to give a plot outline, which sometimes goes more in-depth if the movie has quite a few good points as this has to be understood in order to get the whole review. I then try to pick out some of the key points or situations in the movie and give my opinion on them.
If you do relate to any of the key issues or situations in a movie this can be quite an emotional experience and can then transfer into your writing. I am sure it is evident in my reviews which movies I have been touched by or related to with in comparison to those I did not connect with at all. Therefore did not enjoy them very much.
I have to admit that I do hate writing reviews for movies I have not been too fond of, as I do not like just bashing or saying totally negative things about that movie. So I do still try to find something good about it, which is sometimes extremely difficult as my fellow bloggers will be well aware of.
To my fellow bloggers how do you go about writing your reviews?
To people who read my blog, more particularly my reviews, any advice on how to make them better?
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