Jason Korsner

Stardust – Review

15th January 202115th January 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Gabriel Range – FEATURING: Johnny Flynn, Marc Maron, Aaron Poole, Anthony Flanagan, Brendan J Rowland, Derek Moran, Dylan Roberts, Gord Rand, Jena Malone, Jeremy Legat, Julian Richings, Monica Parker, Oliver Becker, Richard Clarkin, Ryan Blakely [click for more...]

What’s Worth Seeing – or avoiding – from 2020?

31st December 20203rd January 2021Jason Korsner

Well, that’s a year that many people will be glad to see the back of – not least a cinema industry where social [click for more...]

Death to 2020 – Review

27th December 202029th December 2020Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Diane Morgan, Hugh Grant, Kumail Nanjiani, Lisa Kudrow, Samson Kayo, Samuel L Jackson, Tracey Ullman, Charlie Brooker, Cristin Milioti, Joe Keery, Laurence Fishburne, Leslie Jones, Lily Sullivan – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 27th December 2020 [click for more...]

Soul – Review

27th December 202015th January 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Kemp Powers, Pete Docter – FEATURING: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Ahmir-Khalib Thompson, Alice Braga, Angela Bassett, Cora Champommier, Daveed Diggs, Donnell Rawlings, Graham Norton, Laura Mooney, Margo Hall, Phylicia Rashid, Rachel House, Richard Ayoade, Sakina Jaffrey, Wes Studi, Zenobia Shroff [click for more...]

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Review

18th December 202015th January 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: George C Wolfe – FEATURING: Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Colman Domingo, Dusan Brown, Glynn Turman, Jeremy Shamos, Jonny Coyne, Joshua Harto, Michael Potts, Taylour Paige [click for more...]

Let Him Go – Review

18th December 202015th January 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Thomas Bezucha – FEATURING: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Lesley Manville, Adam Stafford, Booboo Stewart, Bradley Stryker, Bram Hornung, Connor Mackay, Greg Lawson, Jeffrey Donovan, Kayli Carter, Otto Hornung, Ryan Bruce, Will Brittain [click for more...]

Wonder Woman 1984 – Review

16th December 202017th December 2020Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Patty Jenkins – FEATURING: Gal Gadot, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Ed Birch, Lilly Aspell, Robin Wright [click for more...]

The Midnight Sky – Review

11th December 20204th January 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: George Clooney – FEATURING: George Clooney, Caoilinn Springall, David Oyelowo, Demián Bichir, Ethan Peck, Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, Sophie Rundle, Tiffany Boone [click for more...]

Contagion director Steven Soderbergh to produce Covid Oscars show

9th December 20209th December 2020Jason Korsner

The body behind the Oscars – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – have picked the director of the global pandemic [click for more...]

Warner Bros kicks off a new battle in the post-Covid war between studios and cinemas

4th December 20204th December 2020Jason Korsner

Warner Brothers have launched a new salvo in the battle for survival in the film business, by announcing that all of its 2021 [click for more...]

Mank – Review

20th November 20205th January 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: David Fincher – FEATURING: Gary Oldman, Lily Collins, Sam Troughton, Tom Burke, Amanda Seyfried, Arliss Howard, Charles Dance, Ferdinand Kingsley, Jamie McShane, Joseph Cross, Leven Rambin, Monika Gossmann, Toby Leonard Moore, Tom Pelphrey, Tuppence Middleton [click for more...]

Mangrove – Review

15th November 202024th December 2020Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Steve McQueen – FEATURING: Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Sam Spruell, Shaun Parkes, Alex Jennings, Derek Griffiths, Gary Beadle, Gershwyn Eustache, Jack Lowden, Jodhi May, Joseph Quinn, Jumayn Hunter, Nathaniel Martello-White, Richard Cordery, Richie Campbell, Samuel West, Steven O’Neill, Thomas Coombes [click for more...]

Raindance winners announced at live-streamed ceremony

6th November 20209th November 2020Jason Korsner

A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a potentially fatal sexually-transmitted disease has been named the Film of the Festival by the [click for more...]

The Queen’s Gambit – Review

23rd October 20205th January 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Anya Taylor-Joy, Harry Melling, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Annabeth Kelly, Bill Camp, Chloe Pirrie, Christiane Seidel, Dolores Carbonari, Isla Johnston, Marcin Dorocinski, Matthew Dennis Lewis, Moses Ingram, Patrick Kennedy, Rebecca Root, Russell Dennis Lewis, Ryan Wichert – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 23rd October 2020 [click for more...]

Honest Thief – Review

23rd October 202024th December 2020Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Mark Williams – FEATURING: Liam Neeson, Anthony Ramos, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Kate Walsh, Robert Patrick [click for more...]

Viewers give LFF’s top prize to Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round

18th October 202019th October 2020Jason Korsner

The most unconventional of London Film Festivals has come to a close with a virtual awards ceremony, whose winners were chosen by members [click for more...]

Roadkill – Review

18th October 20205th January 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Hugh Laurie, Anna Francolini, Danny Ashok, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Helen McCrory, Iain De Caestecker, Millie Brady, Nicholas Rowe, Olivia Vinall, Ophelia Lovibond, Patricia Hodge, Pip Torrens, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Sarah Greene, Saskia Reeves, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Sidse Babett Knudsen – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 18th October 2020 [click for more...]

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