What's Worth Seeing…

Dune: Part One – Review

22nd October 202125th October 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Denis Villeneuve – FEATURING: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, Dave Bautista, David Dastmalchian, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Marianne Faithfull, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Souad Faress, Stellan Skarsgard, Stephen McKinley Henderson [click for more...]

Maria Duarte tells us What’s Worth Seeing from the 2021 London Film Festival

18th October 202118th October 2021Maria Duarte

It was largely back to business as usual for this year’s BFI London Film Festival despite the ongoing pandemic. Our reviewer Maria Duarte [click for more...]

Debut films dominate the London Film Festival Awards

17th October 202118th October 2021Jason Korsner

The London Film Festival has drawn to a close with the European premiere of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, following the latest [click for more...]

LFF Director tells us What’s Worth Seeing at this year’s Festival

6th October 20216th October 2021Jason Korsner

A year on from a London Film Festival that was unrecognisable because of the Covid pandemic, the BFI has taken many of the [click for more...]

Ridley Road – Review

3rd October 202119th October 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Agnes O’Casey, Eddie Marsan, Rory Kinnear, Tom Varey, Allan Corduner, Danny Hatchard, Danny Sykes, Gabriel Akuwudike, Hannah Onslow, Hannah Traylen, Henry Wilton-Hunt, James Craze, Julia Krynke, Nigel Betts, Preston Nyman, Rita Tushingham, Romane Portail, Samantha Spiro, Stephen Hogan, Tamzin Outhwaite, Tracy Ann Oberman, Will Keen – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 3rd October 2021 [click for more...]

No Time To Die – Review

30th September 20211st October 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Cary Joji Fukunaga – FEATURING: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Ana de Armas, Ben Whishaw, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, Jeffrey Wright, Lashana Lynch, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Rory Kinnear [click for more...]

The Crown reigns as streamers dominate the Emmys

20th September 202120th September 2021Jason Korsner

The Crown – the Netflix series based on the British Royal Family – has dominated the first Emmy Awards since the pandemic, which [click for more...]

Help – Review

16th September 202115th October 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham, Angela Griffin, Cathy Tyson, David Hayman, Ian Hart, Lesley Sharp, Steve Garti, Sue Johnston – CHANNEL: All 4, Channel 4 – FIRST SHOWN: 16th September 2021 [click for more...]

French abortion drama wins top prize at Venice Film Festival

12th September 2021Jason Korsner

The Venice Film Festival has given its top prize, the Golden Lion, to the French drama Happening, about a young woman seeking an [click for more...]

Ant & Dec, David Tennant, Line of Duty and After Life among NTA winners

9th September 202110th September 2021Jason Korsner

Ant & Dec have come out top at a Covid-delayed National Television Awards ceremony, being named the best TV presenters for the twentieth [click for more...]

BFI brings Cannes and Venice hits to London

7th September 20218th September 2021Jason Korsner

The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced the full programme of nearly 160 films. Jeymes Samuels’ opener The Harder They Fall [click for more...]

Back To Life – Review

31st August 20211st October 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Daisy Haggard, Geraldine James, Richard Durden, Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Edmondson, Christine Bottomley, Frank Feys, Imogen Gurney, Jamie Michie, Jo Martin, Juliet Cowan, Keir Charles, Liam Williams, Lizzy McInnerny, Meera Syal, Souad Faress – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC3 – FIRST SHOWN: 31st August 2021, Season 2 premiere [click for more...]

Idris Elba and Denzel Washington bookend London Film Festival

26th August 202126th August 2021Jason Korsner

The BFI has indicated that a key theme of this year’s London Film Festival will be race, in a year that the Hollywood [click for more...]

The Chair – Review

20th August 202125th October 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Sandra Oh, Bob Balaban, David Duchovny, David Morse, Ella Rubin, Everly Carganilla, Holland Taylor, Jay Duplass, Ji-yong Lee, Nana Mensah, Ron Crawford – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 20th August 2021 [click for more...]

Modern Love – Review

13th August 202125th October 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Anna Paquin, Dominique Fishback, Garrett Hedlund, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Grace Edwards, Isaac Powell, Kit Harington, Lucy Boynton, Lulu Wilson, Marquis Rodriguez, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson, Sophie Okonedo, Tobias Menzies, Zane Pais, Zoë Chao, Andrew Scott, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, James Saito, Jane Alexander, John Gallagher Jr, John Slattery, Julia Garner, Olivia Cooke, Shea Whigham, Sofia Boutella, Tina Fey – CHANNEL: Amazon Prime – FIRST SHOWN: 13th August 2021, Season 2 premiere [click for more...]

The HFPA has backed widespread reform – but can the Golden Globes be saved?

7th August 20218th August 2021Jason Korsner

The body behind the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has backed a new set of by-laws, in the first step towards [click for more...]

Plans for major new film studio in Hertfordshire

1st August 20212nd August 2021Jason Korsner

American investors are planning to build a $1 billion dollar film and TV production studio complex in Hertfordshire, in what the UK government [click for more...]

Limbo – Review

30th July 202115th October 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Ben Sharrock – FEATURING: Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Cameron Fulton, Darina Al Joundi, Iona Elizabeth Thomson, Kais Nashif, Kenneth Collard, Kwabena Ansah, Lewis Gribben, Nayef Rashed, Ola Orebiyi, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Silvie Furneaux, Sodienye Ojewuyi [click for more...]

Cannes Gives Top Prize To a Woman for only the Second Time

17th July 202119th July 2021Jason Korsner

The Cannes Film Festival has given its top prize, the Palme d’Or, to a female director for only the second time in its [click for more...]

Strong British showing at US TV Academy Emmy nominations

13th July 202113th July 2021Jason Korsner

After a year when most people across the world – and certainly in the US – have been stuck at home, watching the [click for more...]