A lot of catching up to do.

If you're a regular visitor to this blog, you will have noticed that you haven't been a regular visitor to this blog for the past few months, as there hasn't been anything to regularly visit. "Why is this?" you ask, desperate, concerned, "Nathan, are you okay? Have you had some hard personal issues? Have you been struggling at school? Are you depressed? Are-"

No. I am none of those things. I am just really, really, really lazy.

As a result of my laziness, this blog has become a depressing, empty wasteland, with no stuff being reviewed, despite what the name promises. However, that's about to change, as I'm going to start reviewing stuff again and, to make sure this doesn't happen again, I'm going to set up a review schedule for the next couple of weeks. So, for your viewing pleasure, here is the upcoming review schedule (no promises, however, as I am still just as lazy as before);

Today - This post, Minions Review
Friday 23rd - Ant Man Review
Sunday 25th - Inside Out Review
Tuesday 27th - Bill Review
Thursday 29th - The Martian Review

I've also decided to completely change my review style. Beforehand, I grouped things into, well, groups and gave each group an individual score. This helped me to give a final, overall out of ten score for the film, but in every other respects, it was really annoying. It made the review overlong, it prevented me from writing certain sentences I wanted to write, because they didn't fit anywhere and it was just really stupid. From now on, I've decided I'm going to write my review however the heck I want. No silly structure or anything like that, the only rule will be that I have to give it a final score out of ten.

So yeah, now you can go on with your life safe in the knowledge that this blog might actually produce some content.

Maybe.

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