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1917, Rocketman, Joker and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood among Golden Globe winners

6th January 20207th January 2020Jason Korsner

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has spread its honours thinly, making it hard to make predictions ahead of next month’s Oscars, but the [click for more...]

Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker – Review

19th December 201927th January 2020Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: JJ Abrams – FEATURING: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Anthony Daniels, Billie Lourd, Billy Dee Williams, Carrie Fisher, Domhnall Gleeson, Dominic Monaghan, Greg Grunberg, Harrison Ford, Ian McDiarmid, Jodie Comer, Joonas Suotamo, Kelly Marie Tran, Keri Russell, Lupita Nyong’o, Mark Hamill, Naomi Ackie, Richard E Grant, Shirley Henderson, Warwick Davis [click for more...]

Joker wins top prize in Venice, with Polanski coming second

7th September 20198th September 2019Jason Korsner

The Venice Film Festival jury has awarded its top prize to Joker, Todd Phillips’ origins story for the infamous Batman villain, previously brought [click for more...]

Mexican double-Oscar winning director to head Cannes jury

27th February 20192nd March 2019Jason Korsner

With 5 of the last 6 Best Director Oscars going to Mexicans, the country’s film-making is world-leading and in recognition of this, one [click for more...]

“Popular film” to be honoured in revamped Oscars ceremony

8th August 20189th August 2018Jason Korsner

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced three changes to try to make future Oscar ceremonies more relevant – and [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Second Tuesday

15th May 201826th May 2019Jason 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...]

The Shape of Water takes top Oscars on a Hollywood night charged with politics

5th March 20188th March 2018Jason Korsner

The Shape of Water’s 4 Oscars included Best Picture and Best Director Guillermo del Toro’s romantic fantasy The Shape of Water has triumphed [click for more...]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Review

12th January 201820th February 2018Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Martin McDonagh – FEATURING: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Amanda Warren, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, John Hawkes, Kathryn Newton, Kerry Condon, Lucas Hedges, Malaya Rivera Drew, Nick Searcy, Peter Dinklage, Samara Weaving, Sandy Martin, Zeljko Ivanek [click for more...]

Lady Macbeth, Death of Stalin and I Am Not a Witch lead BIFA nominations

1st November 20171st November 2017Jason Korsner

The Nineteenth Century drama Lady Macbeth has received a field-leading fifteen nominations at the twentieth British Independent Film Awards. Florence Pugh received one [click for more...]

Venice and Toronto line-ups hint at Oscar contenders

28th July 201714th November 2018Jason Korsner

The oldest and biggest film-festivals in the world have revealed some of the highlights for film fans this autumn, giving the first indication [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The Second Thursday

25th May 201721st November 2017Jason Korsner

With every film in the two official strands at Cannes being a world premiere, rarely has much been written about the selected films [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The First Sunday

21st May 20178th April 2021Jason Korsner

Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler play half brothers in the Netflix competition entry The Meyerowitz Stories. Sunday might be a day off for [click for more...]

Fences – Review

10th February 201711th March 2017Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Denzel Washington – FEATURING: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Christopher Mele, Jovan Adepo, Mykelti Williamson, Russell Hornsby, Saniyya Sidney, Stephen McKinley Henderson [click for more...]

Record inward investment helps 3 UK-made films top 2016’s box office

26th January 201729th January 2017Jason Korsner

A record £1.35bn of foreign money was spent on film production in the UK in 2016, up 18% on the previous year. This [click for more...]

Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire to close London Film Festival

1st August 20161st August 2016Jason Korsner

Brie Larson in Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire The BFI has announced that Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire will close the London Film Festival, with [click for more...]

BFI says box office up, production down

3rd August 201129th January 2017Jason Korsner

The latest figures from the British Film Institute show that UK cinemas took a record £988 million last year – with 24 of [click for more...]

The Men Who Stare At Goats – Review

6th November 20097th March 2016Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Grant Heslov – FEATURING: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Brad Grunberg, Glenn Morshower, Matt Newton, Merik Tadros, Nick Offerman, Rebecca Mader, Robert Curtis Brown, Robert Patrick, Stephen Lang, Stephen Root, Terry Serpico, Tim Griffin, Waleed Zuaiter [click for more...]

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