Entertainment

Amongst a small number of presents, I got an Amazon Fire TV stick for my birthday this year. It's a great, little device! It uses the Amazon Appstore and there are apps for BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My5, Sky Go, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and the WWE Network, amongst others. You can even connect a bluetooth keyboard, mouse or game controller to it. The only app that I was disappointed to discover isn't available, is the BT Sport app, which is available through the Google Play Store, but not the Amazon Appstore. I hope that's rectified at some point in the future. If it's something that you've thought about buying in the past, but wasn't too sure about, I can honestly say that I would happily pay full price for one. Click on the link to the left if you want to buy one/see more details on Amazon's UK website.

One of the films I've been wanting to see since I first heard about it was the Stephen Hawking biopic 'The Theory of Everything' starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. It's based on Jane Hawking's book 'Travelling to Infinity, My Life with Stephen' and charts their first meeting at a party in 1963, their life together, Hawking's deteriorating health as a result of his illness, and their subsequent separation in 1990.

It's unsurprising, at least in my opinion, that it it has been nominated for Oscars as Best Picture, Best Actor for Redmayne, Best Actress for Jones, Best Adapted Screenplay for McCarten, and Best Original Score for Jóhann Jóhannsson. It was also nominated for ten BAFTAs. It has already won Golden Globe awards for Motion Picture Drama, for Eddie Redmayne as Best Actor and for Jóhann Jóhannsson with Best Original Score.

I would highly recommend the film.