Baftas 2015: ‘Grand Budapest’ leads noms
Announced by Stephen Fry and Sam Claflin, this year’s Bafta nominations were revealed yesterday morning. Wes Anderson’s Berlinale opener The Grand Budapest Hotel leads...
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17 October 2024
#LFF 2024: It’s Not Me review
★★★★☆ A swift but singular filmmaking self-portrait, Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me reflects on the French auteur’s 40-year directorial career, as well as his many cinematic – and canine – influences.
10 October 2024
#LFF 2024: Conclave review
★★★★☆ Ralph Fiennes approaches top form as a spiritually and morally-conflicted cardinal during a Vatican Conclave in Edward Berger’s gripping, oft-humorous follow-up to the multi-Oscar-winning All Quiet On the Western Front.
11 March 2024
Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer sweeps the board
The winners of this year’s 96th Academy Awards were announced earlier this morning at LA’s Dolby Theatre. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the big winner on the night, scooping seven Oscars in total including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
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DVD Review: ‘God’s Pocket’
★★★☆☆ The feature debut from Mad Men actor John Slattery (who plays the wonderfully urbane Roger Sterling in the hit AMC show), God’s Pocket (2013)...
DVD Review: ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’
★★★★☆ Memories of Tim Burton’s woeful 2001 Planet of the Apes remake were thankfully replaced with far fonder recollections in 2011 following the release...
London 2014: Our guide to this year’s LFF programme
The BFI London Film Festival returns to the nation’s capital for its 58th edition this week (8 October), bringing with it the promise of...
DVD Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’
★★★★☆ Early on New Year’s Day, 2009, 22-year-old Oakland, California resident Oscar Grant was shot in the back by a police officer following a...
Film Review: ‘Gone Girl’
★★★☆☆ David Fincher knew exactly what he was getting himself into when he agreed to take on the big-screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn′s bestselling...
Film Review: ‘Maps to the Stars’
★★☆☆☆ David Cronenberg has had a tough time of late. Though his last two efforts, A Dangerous Method (2011) and Cosmopolis (2012), arguably lacked...
Film Review: ‘Night Will Fall’
★★★★☆ A conflict rich in inhumane horrors, it was the discovery of Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces as the battle in the European...
