About

Welcome to ‘The Popcorn Panel’ a passion project by film lover and TV connoisseur Alex Cearns. Here you’ll find Alex’s no-holds-barred, honest reviews of movies, TV shows, and streaming binges, spiced up with guest scores from a trusty panel of film fanatics.

And if you’d rather hear the spoken word than read the written one, you can catch ‘The Popcorn Panel’ live every month on The Couch TV and 6PR Radio’s ‘Saturday Nights with Fred Mafrica’.

Here are a few fun facts about Alex:

• • Going to the cinema is one of her greatest joys and it was the social  event she missed the most during Covid lockdown in 2020.
  • She’s never walked out of a film – not that she hasn’t wanted to, but she always sticks it out until the credits roll.
  • Cinema popcorn is her favourite snack.
  • In 2020, she was featured in a  short documentary called ‘Raising Joey’ that was part of the ‘Revelation Film Festival’. It was screened in the cinema to a full house and won several awards.
  • In her other life, she’s a professional animal photographer and has appeared on television over 100 times.
  • She photographed a movie poster for ‘Koko: A Red Dog Story’.
  • She was featured on an episode of ‘60 Second Docs’ that racked up more than 9 million views.
  • She’s been a loyal reader of ‘Empire Magazine’ for over 30 years and subscribes to the old-school print version.
  • She started writing down her thoughts on movies and TV shows to remember them.
  • A review can take her ten minutes to write or two hours!
  • On average, she reviews a film or  TV show every 1.3 days.
  • She gets a kick out of dissecting movies with fellow film buffs and loves that her reviews are just her opinions, and those of others may differ.