Jason Korsner

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – Review

6th June 20186th July 2018Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: JA Bayona – FEATURING: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Isabella Sermon, BD Wong, Daniella Pineda, Geraldine Chaplin, James Cromwell, Jeff Goldblum, Justice Smith, Rafe Spall, Ted Levine, Toby Jones [click for more...]

Chocolate Cake – Review

2nd June 201819th June 2018Jason Korsner

CAST: Mark Houston, Aminita Francis, Todd Heppenstall – DIRECTED BY: Barb Jungr, Peter Glanville – WRITTEN BY: Barb Jungr, Michael Rosen [click for more...]

America’s ABC TV network cancels its most successful sitcom Roseanne over racist tweet

29th May 201830th May 2018Jason Korsner

Sara Gilbert, Roseanne Barr and John Goodman. Photo: ABC One of America’s most successful TV shows, the sitcom Roseanne, has been cancelled by [click for more...]

New Morgan Freeman statement clarifies earlier apology

26th May 20187th June 2018Jason Korsner

The Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has released a new statement – a day after apologising for making anyone feel uncomfortable or disrespected. Morgan [click for more...]

Solo: A Star Wars Story – Review

25th May 201823rd June 2018Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Ron Howard – FEATURING: Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Daniels, Clint Howard, Jon Favreau, Joonas Suotamo, Linda Hunt, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Thandie Newton, Warwick Davis [click for more...]

Danny Boyle confirmed as director of Bond 25

25th May 201825th May 2018Jason Korsner

Trainspotting director Danny Boyle will take over Bond 25. The producers of the James Bond franchise have confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets [click for more...]

Japanese film Shoplifters wins Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018, under the spectre of Harvey Weinstein.

20th May 201820th May 2018Jason Korsner

The Japanese film Shoplifters has won the top prize at a Cannes Film Festival, overshadowed by the spectre of Harvey Weinstein. [click for more...]

Un Certain Regard prizes at 2018 Cannes Film Festival

18th May 201818th May 2018Jason Korsner

A Swedish fantasy romance thriller has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard strand at the Cannes Film Festival. Gräns, about [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Second Wednesday

16th May 201818th May 2018Jason Korsner

It was my last day in Cannes, so for once, I had to make sure I was up for the 8.30am screening. In Under the Silver Lake, Andrew Garfield stars as a guy who’s just lost his job and is on the verge of losing his LA apartment, when he gets involved with a girl who disappears and then turns up dead, alongside a missing businessman. [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Second Tuesday

15th May 201831st May 2018Jason Korsner

Spike Lee explains why he takes a pop at the US President at the end of his Palme d’Or-nominated film, BlacKkKlansman. Press conferences [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Only Monday

14th May 201824th August 2018Jason Korsner

Today started with more talk of how to improve inclusion in the UK film industry with an all-woman panel discussion at the UK [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Only Sunday

13th May 201819th May 2018Jason Korsner

My day started with a sobering experience; I found out what it was like to be part of a minority in the film [click for more...]

Peaky Blinders wins Best Drama Series at 2018 TV BAFTAs

13th May 201820th May 2018Jason Korsner

The fourth season of Peaky Blinders was named the Best Drama series. Peaky Blinders has beaten Line of Duty and The Crown to [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Saturday

12th May 201813th May 2018Jason Korsner

As I took my place at this morning’s press conference for Jean-Luc Godard’s Image Book, in the hope that I’d end up with [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The First Friday

11th May 201814th May 2018Jason Korsner

Today’s early film was from the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose previous film Ida won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film. [click for more...]

Entebbe – Review

11th May 201813th June 2018Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: José Padilha – FEATURING: Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, Angel Bonanni, Ben Schnetzer, Denis Ménochet, Juan Pablo Raba, Lior Ashkenazi, Mark Ivanir, Natalie Stone, Nonso Anozie, Omar Berdouni, Peter Sullivan [click for more...]

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