Belfast and Boiling Point lead the BIFA field with 11 nominations each
Director Philip Barantini, actor Stephen Graham and actress Vinette Robinson have 3 of Boiling Point’s 11 nominations at the 2021 BIFAs. Kitchen drama
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…on film
Dune: Part One – Review
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
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Maria Duarte tells us What’s Worth Seeing from the 2021 London Film Festival
It was largely back to business as usual for this year’s BFI London Film Festival despite the ongoing pandemic. Our reviewer Maria Duarte
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Debut films dominate the London Film Festival Awards
The London Film Festival has drawn to a close with the European premiere of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, following the latest
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LFF Director tells us What’s Worth Seeing at this year’s Festival
A year on from a London Film Festival that was unrecognisable because of the Covid pandemic, the BFI has taken many of the
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No Time To Die – Review
DIRECTED BY: Cary Joji Fukunaga – FEATURING: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Amy Morgan, Ana de Armas, Ben Whishaw, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, Jeffrey Wright, Lashana Lynch, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Rory Kinnear
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French abortion drama wins top prize at Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival has given its top prize, the Golden Lion, to the French drama Happening, about a young woman seeking an
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BFI brings Cannes and Venice hits to London
The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced the full programme of nearly 160 films. Jeymes Samuels’ opener The Harder They Fall
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Idris Elba and Denzel Washington bookend London Film Festival
The BFI has indicated that a key theme of this year’s London Film Festival will be race, in a year that the Hollywood
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The HFPA has backed widespread reform – but can the Golden Globes be saved?
The body behind the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has backed a new set of by-laws, in the first step towards
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Plans for major new film studio in Hertfordshire
American investors are planning to build a $1 billion dollar film and TV production studio complex in Hertfordshire, in what the UK government
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Limbo – Review
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
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Cannes Gives Top Prize To a Woman for only the Second Time
The Cannes Film Festival has given its top prize, the Palme d’Or, to a female director for only the second time in its
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Black Widow – Review
DIRECTED BY: Cate Shortland – FEATURING: Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, Florence Pugh, O-T Fagbenle, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, William Hurt
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Another Round – Review
DIRECTED BY: Thomas Vinterberg – FEATURING: Mads Mikkelsen, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, Maria Bonnevie, Thomas Bo Larsen
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Fast & Furious 9 – Review
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
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Luca – Review
DIRECTED BY: Enrico Casarosa – FEATURING: Emma Berman, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jacob Tremblay, Jim Gaffigan, Lorenzo Crisci, Marco Barricelli, Maya Rudolph, Peter Sohn, Sacha Baron Cohen, Saverio Raimondo
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The Reason I Jump – Review
DIRECTED BY: Jerry Rothwell – FEATURING: David Mitchell, Jim Fujiwara, Jordan O’Donegan
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The Father – Review
DIRECTED BY: Florian Zeller – FEATURING: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Imogen Poots, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Rufus Sewell
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Cannes favourites dominate a delayed 2021 line-up
“Cinema is not dead,” declared the artistic director of the Festival de Cannes, Thierry Frémaux, as he announced more than 60 films that
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