About

Welcome to ‘The Popcorn Panel’ a passion project by film lover and TV connoisseur Alex Cearns. Here you’ll find Alex’s reviews of movies, TV shows, and streaming binges, rounded out with guest scores from other film fanatics. She also shares her reviews each week in Have A Go News and you can catch Alex’s ‘Popcorn Panel’ segment live on The Couch TV show (aired on Foxtel) every month. 

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • She hosts Western Australia’s most engaged and fastest-growing movie club.