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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A United Kingdom to open London Film Festival 2016
For the second year running, the BFI London Film Festival is opening with a British film directed by a woman. Rosamund Pike and
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Star Trek, Charlie Bartlett star Anton Yelchin killed by own car at 27
The Russian-born actor Anton Yelchin, whose career-launching performance opposite Robert Downey Jr in Charlie Bartlett secured him a role in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek reboot has died in a car accident outside his home.
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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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Loach’s anti-austerity cry wins him a second Palme d’Or
The British director Ken Loach has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time. Ten years after winning
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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 First Saturday
The race was on. I left home in London at 4am and had to get to the UK Film Centre in the Village International
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Wolf Hall, Peter Kay & This is England lead BAFTA TV winners
In a particularly strong night for the BBC and Channel 4, Wolf Hall, Peter Kay’s Car Share and This is England 90 are
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Oscar-winning Iranian added to Cannes 2016 line-up
With less than three weeks to go to the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival, the organisers have announced a number of
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Two British directors among regulars in competition at Cannes
Confirming the old adage that the best way to get your new feature into the Cannes Film Festival is to have screened an
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Spingsteen cancels North Carolina concert over ‘anti-LGBT’ laws
Bruce Springsteen in Los Angeles in March. Photo: Pam Springsteen Bruce Springsteen has cancelled Sunday’s gig in North Carolina, in protest at the
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Woody Allen to open Cannes for a record 3rd time
The Cannes Film Festival has picked one of its most regular visitors – and one of the most prolific directors – to open
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Star Wars dominates Empire Awards
Star Wars: The Force Awakens won the most awards at the Empire Awards, being honoured as the Best Sci-Fi, for its visual effects, for director JJ Abrams and for its lead actors John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, who took the best male and female newcomer awards.
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Oscar spoils shared between The Revenant, Spotlight, Mad Max – and SPECTRE
At an Oscars ceremony where there was as much talk about who was not nominated as about who was, there were a number
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Hugh Grant honoured with a BFI Fellowship
The epitome of Englishness to many, Hugh Grant has been made a Fellow of the BFI for his contribution to British film. Hugh
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BAFTA success nudges The Revenant closer to Oscar victory
The wilderness revenge drama The Revenant has dominated the BAFTAs, taking five awards – including three of the most influential – while Mad
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Directors give fresh Oscar momentum to The Revenant
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu directing Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant The Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu has been named the best film director for the
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Mad Max director George Miller to chair Cannes jury
They might not seem to be the most natural bedfellows, but the director of one of 2015’s biggest, noisiest blockbusters, Mad Max: Fury Road has been chosen to preside over the jury at the most prestigious and – dare I say it – high brow festivals on the film calendar.
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Actors’ backing boosts Leo’s Oscar hopes as Elba wins 2 SAG Awards
The Screen Actors Guild has given out its annual film and TV awards at a ceremony in Los Angeles that is seen as one of the better indicators of who might go on to win Oscars, as such a large proportion of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are actors.
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