Pedro Almodóvar to lead Cannes jury
Pedro Almodovar will chair this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Photo © El Deseo D.A S.L.U, Nico Bustos The organisers of the Cannes Film
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Black actors dominate SAG Awards, a month ahead of Oscars
A week after the most ethnically diverse set of Oscar nominations in recent history, the latest back-slapping ceremony in Hollywood has raised the
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Denial – Review
DIRECTED BY: Mick Jackson – FEATURING: Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Alex Jennings, Andrew Scott, Caren Pistorius, Harriet Walter, Jack Lowden, Jackie Clune, John Sessions, Mark Gatiss
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Hacksaw Ridge – Review
DIRECTED BY: Mel Gibson – FEATURING: Andrew Garfield, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Sam Worthington, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn, Ben Mingay, Charles Jacobs, Damien Thomlinson, Dennis Kreusler, Firass Dirani, Goran D Kleut, Harry Greenwood, Luke Bracey, Luke Pegler, Michael Sheasby, Robert Morgan, Ryan Corr
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Record inward investment helps 3 UK-made films top 2016’s box office
A record £1.35bn of foreign money was spent on film production in the UK in 2016, up 18% on the previous year. This
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La La Land leads the most diverse set of Oscar nominations for years
The traditional movie-musical La La Land has followed expectations and dominated the Oscar nominations, with a record-equalling 14 nods. Emma Stone and Ryan
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London Critics give La La Land Best Film – but nothing else
The London Film Critics Circle has named the feel-good musical La La Land its Film of the Year. But the top prize was the only
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Jackie – Review
DIRECTED BY: Pablo Larraín – FEATURING: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Crudup, Caspar Phillipson, Greta Gerwig, John Carroll Lynch, John Hurt, Max Casella, Richard E Grant
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La La Land – Review
DIRECTED BY: Damien Chazelle – FEATURING: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Finn Wittrock, JK Simmons, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Terry Walters, Tom Everett Scott
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Manchester By The Sea – Review
DIRECTED BY: Kenneth Lonergan – FEATURING: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams, Anna Baryshnikov, Ben O’Brien, CJ Wilson, Gretchen Mol, Heather Burns, Jackson Damon, Kara Hayward, Kyle Chandler, Matthew Broderick, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Tate Donovan
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La La Land leads BAFTA nominations
Fresh from its success at the Golden Globes, Damien Chazelle’s musical love-letter to Hollywood, La La Land, is leading the pack with eleven BAFTA nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Screenplay for Chazelle, Best Actor for Ryan Gosling and Best Actress for Emma Stone.
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La La Land and The Night Manager dominate Golden Globes
The Oscar-tipped musical love-letter to Los Angeles, La La Land, has become the most successful film ever at the Golden Globes, winning all seven of the categories in which it was nominated.
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Superhero battling Oscar hopefuls for BAFTA’s rising star honour
BAFTA has announced its shortlist of stars in the running for its Rising Star honour, to be handed out at next month’s film
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A Monster Calls – Review
DIRECTED BY: JA Bayona – FEATURING: Lewis MacDougall, Liam Neeson, Felicity Jones, Geraldine Chaplin, James Melville, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell
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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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Why Him? – Review
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Passengers – Review
DIRECTED BY: Morten Tyldum – FEATURING: Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Laurence Fishburne, Martin Sheen
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Love & Friendship and Moonlight lead London Film Critics Circle nominations
Love & Friendship is up for both Film of the Year and British/Irish Film of the Year Whit Stillman’s bristling adaptation of a
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BAFTA joins BFI’s diversity drive
Films that don’t display a strong presence of diverse talent will no longer be eligible for two of the top BAFTA film awards,
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Globes set up La La Land and Moonlight as Oscar front-runners
The 2017 Awards Season has kicked off in earnest with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announcing a plethora of nominations covering film and
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