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Several surprise wins livened up an otherwise low-key 91st Academy Awards, with Green Book trumping Roma to Best Picture and Olivia Colman besting Glenn CloseContinue Reading
The 91st Academy Awards are just hours away and yet, with the announcement that the Oscars for Cinematography, Editing, LiveContinue Reading
Hosted by Joanna Lumley, last night’s Baftas ceremony saw Yorgos Lanthimos’ acclaimed The Favourite pick up seven of the twelve awardsContinue Reading
With the UK’s most prestigious film awards taking place later today (10 February), it’s time to enter into a roundContinue Reading
★★★★☆ Luca Guadagnino returns to screens this week with his long-awaited take on giallo classic Suspiria – minus much ofContinue Reading
★★★★☆ Down Terrace director Ben Wheatley returns to the horror of kinship with Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (working title Colin YouContinue Reading
★★★☆☆ Loosely based on a series of trash sci-fi horror novels, The Meg surges into as many multiplexes as it can muster thisContinue Reading
With the lead-up dominated by thinkpieces over Netflix’s exclusion from this year’s Cannes competition lineup, it was something of aContinue Reading
★★★★☆ With two high-profile sci-fis offloaded to Netflix in recent months – one sagely (The Cloverfield Paradox), the other moreContinue Reading
Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro was the big winner of this year’s 90th Academy Awards, making a splash with winsContinue Reading
Hosted by Joanna Lumley, tonight’s Baftas ceremony saw – as predicted – a reasonably even spread of winners. Best Film wentContinue Reading
★★★★☆ A deserving dark horse coming into the final furlong of Oscars ‘silly season’, Greta Gerwig enters the solo directorialContinue Reading
This year’s Academy Awards nominations were revealed earlier this afternoon. Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water picked up the mostContinue Reading
★★★☆☆ Recalling the fantasy prehistoric romps of Hammer – light on historical accuracy, heavy on thrills – British animation institutionContinue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Dogged by controversy due to the recent allegations surrounding the once-attached Kevin Spacey – hastily replaced over seven weeksContinue Reading