…on film

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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 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...]

Black Widow – Review

7th July 202130th September 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Cate Shortland – FEATURING: Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, Florence Pugh, O-T Fagbenle, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, William Hurt [click for more...]

Another Round – Review

2nd July 20214th October 2021Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Thomas Vinterberg – FEATURING: Mads Mikkelsen, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, Maria Bonnevie, Thomas Bo Larsen [click for more...]

Fast & Furious 9 – Review

24th June 202115th September 2021Maria Duarte

DIRECTED BY: Justin Lin – FEATURING: Michelle Rodriguez, Vin Diesel, Cardi B, Charlize Theron, Chris Bridges, Helen Mirren, John Cena, Jordana Brewster, Kurt Russell, Michael Rooker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shea Whigham, Sung Kang, Thue Ersted Rasmussen, Tyrese Gibson [click for more...]