Cannes 2017 – The Only Monday
The older you get, the harder it becomes. One of the many slogans appearing on badges being handed out with festival accreditation this
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Cannes 2017 – The First Sunday
Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler play half brothers in the Netflix competition entry The Meyerowitz Stories. Sunday might be a day off for
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Cannes 2017 – The First Saturday
Some years ago, a former editor of mine on another website, John Park, described me as “a man about town … on a
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Daniel Blake? Why Him when you’ve got Captain Fantastic? What was – and was not – Worth Seeing in 2016
Here we go again – another year has come and gone – with hundreds of new films having graced our cinema screens. Some
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What’s Worth Seeing from the 2016 London Film Festival
With nearly 250 feature films to choose from over twelve days at the London Film Festival, poor old Maria Duarte has really run
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What’s Worth Seeing at the London Film Festival 2016
The London Film Festival Director Clare Stewart tells us What’s Worth Seeing at LFF 2016
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Return to Raindance: why film-makers keep coming back
Film festivals often have a family feel, with the same directors returning again and again. Ken Loach, Joel Coen and Mike Leigh are among many Cannes regulars and Britain’s biggest independent film festival, Raindance, is no different. What’s Worth Seeing meets three directors who’ve returned to Raindance.
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Win film goodies in our Captain Fantastic competition (WINNERS ANNOUNCED)
To win a gift pack of Captain Fantastic goodies, visit What’s Worth Seeing’s facebook page and message us the answer a simple question.
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Win David Brent: Life on the Road goodies in our competition (WINNERS ANNOUNCED)
To win a gift pack of David Brent goodies, visit What’s Worth Seeing’s facebook page and message us the answer a simple question.
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Magnificent Seven to open Toronto – and close Venice – nodding to Oscars 2017
The line-ups for both the Venice and Toronto film festivals, both released this week, provide a sneak preview of how next year’s Oscars
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Win magical goodies in our Now You See Me 2 competition (WINNERS ANNOUNCED)
To win a gift pack including a T-shirt, a portable charger and a pack of Now You See Me 2 playing cards, tells us who Lizzy Caplan has replaced as the “girl Horseman.”
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Will UK Film “shrug” off Brexit or will it be “devastating”?
So, four months of campaigning are over. The counting is complete. The result was leave. So, will it make a difference to Britain’s
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Elvis & Nixon – Competition to win film goodies (WINNERS ANNOUNCED)
The distributors Entertainment One have been good enough to offer our UK readers (sorry foreign visitors) some goodies to coincide with the upcoming
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Cannes Firsts – Lessons from the Market
Find out what two film-makers got out of coming to the Cannes Film Market – Christina Yianni with her first short and Brian Barnes with his first feature
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Cannes 2016 – The Second Friday
After another night without enough sleep and no time for breakfast before an early film, I dashed to the Palais and hid some
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Cannes 2016 – The Second Thursday
With the market all but over, all that remains is the tail end of the festival, which means there’s not much else to
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Cannes 2016 – The Second Wednesday
After one too many repetitions of late nights out, followed by even later nights writing and then early mornings at screenings, today, I
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Cannes 2016 – The Only Tuesday
Pedro Almodovar is back in competition with Julieta After yesterday’s experience of having had the cereal-bar police separate me from my breakfast on
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Cannes 2016 – The Only Monday
The red carpet on the steps up to the prestigious Grand Theatre Lumiere The easiest time for the press to see films is
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Cannes 2016 – The First Sunday
Cannes is ever unpredictable. My first meeting of the day was cancelled, enabling me to take advantage of one of the many informative
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