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Cannes 2017 – The Only Tuesday

23rd May 201726th May 2018Jason Korsner

This morning, I granted myself a well-earned lie in, eschewing the Japanese Palme d’Or competition entry screening at 8.30am and instead, ensuring that I made it to the Palais in time to see Jeune Femme, a low budget drama from first time French director Léonor Serraille, screening as part of the Un Certain Regard strand. [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The Only Monday

22nd May 201710th November 2017Jason Korsner

The older you get, the harder it becomes. One of the many slogans appearing on badges being handed out with festival accreditation this [click for more...]

Cannes 2017 – The First Sunday

21st May 201719th October 2017Jason 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...]

Cannes 2017 – The First Saturday

20th May 20175th August 2017Jason Korsner

Some years ago, a former editor of mine on another website, John Park, described me as “a man about town … on a [click for more...]

Daniel Blake? Why Him when you’ve got Captain Fantastic? What was – and was not – Worth Seeing in 2016

30th December 20169th January 2017Jason Korsner

Here we go again – another year has come and gone – with hundreds of new films having graced our cinema screens. Some [click for more...]

What’s Worth Seeing from the 2016 London Film Festival

17th October 201612th February 2017Maria Duarte

With nearly 250 feature films to choose from over twelve days at the London Film Festival, poor old Maria Duarte has really run [click for more...]

What’s Worth Seeing at the London Film Festival 2016

5th October 201628th September 2018Jason Korsner

The London Film Festival Director Clare Stewart tells us What’s Worth Seeing at LFF 2016 [click for more...]

Return to Raindance: why film-makers keep coming back

26th September 20161st October 2016Jason Korsner

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. [click for more...]

Win film goodies in our Captain Fantastic competition (WINNERS ANNOUNCED)

3rd September 201616th February 2017Jason Korsner

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. [click for more...]

Win David Brent: Life on the Road goodies in our competition (WINNERS ANNOUNCED)

14th August 20168th September 2016Jason Korsner

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. [click for more...]

Magnificent Seven to open Toronto – and close Venice – nodding to Oscars 2017

29th July 201625th July 2017Jason Korsner

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 [click for more...]

Win magical goodies in our Now You See Me 2 competition (WINNERS ANNOUNCED)

28th June 20161st August 2016Jason Korsner

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.” [click for more...]

Will UK Film “shrug” off Brexit or will it be “devastating”?

26th June 201627th June 2016Jason Korsner

So, four months of campaigning are over. The counting is complete. The result was leave. So, will it make a difference to Britain’s [click for more...]

Elvis & Nixon – Competition to win film goodies (WINNERS ANNOUNCED)

15th June 201630th June 2016Jason Korsner

The distributors Entertainment One have been good enough to offer our UK readers (sorry foreign visitors) some goodies to coincide with the upcoming [click for more...]

Cannes Firsts – Lessons from the Market

24th May 201618th March 2018Jason Korsner

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 [click for more...]

Cannes 2016 – The Second Friday

20th May 201623rd May 2016Jason Korsner

After another night without enough sleep and no time for breakfast before an early film, I dashed to the Palais and hid some [click for more...]

Cannes 2016 – The Second Thursday

19th May 201621st May 2016Jason Korsner

With the market all but over, all that remains is the tail end of the festival, which means there’s not much else to [click for more...]

Cannes 2016 – The Second Wednesday

18th May 201619th March 2017Jason Korsner

After one too many repetitions of late nights out, followed by even later nights writing and then early mornings at screenings, today, I [click for more...]

Cannes 2016 – The Only Tuesday

17th May 201618th March 2018Jason Korsner

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 [click for more...]

Cannes 2016 – The Only Monday

16th May 20164th February 2017Jason Korsner

The red carpet on the steps up to the prestigious Grand Theatre Lumiere The easiest time for the press to see films is [click for more...]