DVD Review: ‘L’Atalante’ and the films of Jean Vigo
★★★★★ In 1934, French director Jean Vigo tragically died of tuberculosis at the age of just 29, leaving behind his one and only completed...
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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.
10 March 2024
Oscars 2024: Our final predictions
The Barbenheimer phenomenon reaches its natural denouement tonight at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, with Christopher Nolan’s colossal Oppenheimer expected to sweep most of the major accolades. Barbie will likely have to make do with a handful of craft awards, while foreign language festival hits Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest continue the trend of international features breaking into the main categories.
13 March 2023
Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere wins Best Picture, Best Director
The winners of this year’s 95th Academy Awards were announced earlier this morning at LA’s Dolby Theatre. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once was the big winner on the night, scooping seven Oscars in total including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh.
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DVD Review: ‘ID:A’
★★★☆☆ The rise of the Scandinavian crime thriller in contemporary Western culture has been nothing short of astronomic, encompassing literature (Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø),...
Film Review: Faust
★★★★☆ Making its way to UK cinemas eight months on from its Golden Lion win at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Alexander Sokurov’s Faust...
DVD Review: ‘Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai’
★★★☆☆ Prolific Japanese cult director Takashi Miike swiftly follows up last year’s blood-drenched 13 Assassins (2010) with yet another period remake in the form...
Film Review: ‘Le Quai des Brumes’
★★★★☆ Arguably the jewel in the crown of the BFI’s recently launched Jean Gabin: Working Class Hero to Godfather season, a new StudioCanal/Cinémathèque français...
Film Review: ‘Silent House’
★★☆☆☆ All too often it seems, promising films are derailed by a hopelessly lacklustre finale, which is unfortunately the case with Chris Kentis and...
Film Review: ‘Safe’
★★★☆☆ There’s something immeasurably likeable about British-born action mega-star Jason Statham, who has kicked and chopped his way to the top of his game,...
Cannes 2012: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ preview
The first trailer is still doing the rounds for US director Wes Anderson’s return to live-action filmmaking, Moonrise Kingdom (2012). Reuniting Anderson with regular...