Golden Globes organisers pledge to admit 13 black members in race row
“Thank you to the all-white Hollywood Foreign Press,” the British star Sacha Baron Cohen said as he accepted his Golden Globe, when Borat
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What’s Worth Seeing – or avoiding – from 2020?
Well, that’s a year that many people will be glad to see the back of – not least a cinema industry where social
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What’s Worth Seeing from an unconventional, largely online LFF 2020
This year’s London Film Festival has to be the most unusual to date, with many features being screened virtually for the first time,
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LFF boss tells us What’s Worth Seeing in 2020
As coronavirus infections continue to gather pace across the UK – and the world – the London Film Festival is getting started in
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Will Oscar diversity requirements change much?
It’s been a turbulent few years for the film industry, with the Oscars So White controversy – when all twenty acting nominees were
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Odeon owners ban Universal films as tensions rise over streaming
The world’s largest cinema chain, AMC, whose one thousand sites include Odeon in the UK, says it will refuse to play any Universal
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From shortage to excess? The changing face of UK film studio facilities
An American film production facility has announced its intention to invest £150m in building and running a new film studio complex just outside
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The Favourite Late Night Report is a Marriage Story in a Green Book: What was – and wasn’t – Worth Seeing in 2019?
2 of the best and 2 of the worst of 2019: Marriage Story, Ad Astra, Late Night and Green Book. So 2019 is
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What’s Worth Seeing from the 2019 London Film Festival
All three and a half hours of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman has come and gone – and with it, the London Film Festival
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BFI’s Tricia Tuttle tells us What’s Worth Seeing at LFF 2019
Another London Film Festival is beginning, giving audiences in London – and in many cases across the UK too – their first chance
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Hard-hitting drama Article 15 forces Indians to re-examine their attitudes to society
Europe’s largest event of south Asian films, the annual London Indian Film Festival, has opened with the world premiere of a powerful film
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Swedish film adopts heartfelt approach to animation
At this year’s 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival, attendees at a luncheon put on by Scandinavian producing partner Film i Väst were given
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Cannes 2019 – The Second Wednesday
There’s a lot of pressure on your final day in Cannes to make the most of your time, so there was no prospect
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Cannes 2019 – The Second Tuesday
After a little lie in, I headed into Cannes in time to catch the press conference for Ira Sachs and Isabelle Huppert’s Frankie,
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Cannes 2019 – The Only Monday
As with most days, today started with a screening – it was my first time up in the rooftop cinema known as the
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Cannes 2019 – The Only Sunday
Somehow, despite there being more opportunities to see films for the press than ever, it’s not proving to make things any easier, particularly
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Cannes 2019 – The First Saturday
The day started – early as usual – with a brisk trot down Boulevard Carnot, eating breakfast on the go, to try –
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Cannes 2019 – The First Friday
Today started with the usual early mad dash to the Palais, this time to catch a film I could’ve seen last night, if
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Cannes 2019 – The First Thursday
The Cannes Food Police were already shaping my day, before I even reached the Palais this morning. I was halfway to the early
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Cannes 2019 – The First Wednesday
Themes often come out of no-where at Cannes, and just weeks after a Swedish teenager brought the issue of climate change back to
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