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Oscars 2021: Our final predictions
After one of the longest awards seasons in living memory, the 93rd Academy Awards are almost upon us. Pandemic or no pandemic, this year’s nominations have been welcomed for their diversity and inclusivity, with celebrated indies rubbing shoulders with streaming hits.
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Which key factors help to create the best Bond films
Every Bond fan will probably have a favourite Bond movie and there are so many to choose from. Older fans will probably be nostalgic for the very first film, Dr. No (1962), which first introduced our hero. While younger fans may prefer the latest ones like Spectre (2015) or Casino Royale (2006). But what makes…
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Five films with unpredictable plots
Are you tired of your routine and want to feel some truly unpredictable emotions? Then you can try parachuting, betting on demo slot games or watching these movies. Their breathtaking plots will definitely satisfy you. Memento The main character is young, drives a cool car, and looks successful and calm. But in reality, he suffers…
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Baftas 2021: Nomadland wins Best Film, Best Director
The winners of this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards were announced earlier this evening at a Covid-safe, audience-less ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Nomadland was the big story of the night, winning both Best Film and Best Director for Chloe Zhao.
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Film Review: Godzilla vs. Kong
★★☆☆☆ Two years after Godzilla took his place as the alpha kaiju, old atomic breath has gone to ground. Meanwhile, the simian king of Skull Island has been contained in a Truman Show-esque monitoring station after a storm destroyed his home and killed all but one of its human inhabitants. When Godzilla resurfaces to destroy…
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Film Review: Undine
★★★☆☆ Floating somewhere between drama and fantasy, myth and reality, Christian Petzold’s Undine is a beguiling, other-worldly love story between a diver and a tour guide – or is she a mermaid? Brought to modern-day Berlin from the depths of German Renaissance philosophy, this supernatural allegory benefits from two strong lead performances, but is otherwise…
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Film Review: The Mauritanian
★★☆☆☆ Expressly out of sight, with the intention of being out of mind, there were only so many monikers – Gitmo, Camp X-Ray – and so many excuses, pieces of questionable legislation, that the US government could throw at their activities in Guantánamo Bay before the truth would out. Based on the 2015 memoir Guantánamo…
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BFI Flare 2021: Festival highlights
Always hotly anticipated by London’s LGBTIQ+ communities, BFI Flare went fully online this year, 26 features and even more shorts finding new audiences for a glorious programme full of soul, provocation, warmth, wit and sex. Continuing a trend, the festival divided its programme into three umbrella themes: hearts, minds, and bodies. These categories make for…
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Film Review: Tina
★★★★☆ “Things are not always the way they look, you know.” Behind the forced smiles and false bonhomie of replies to inane talk-show hosts, hidden truths lie. Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s Tina digs deep into the past, the resilience and the courage of an extraordinary woman. Unafraid to ask the tough questions where needed,…
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Film Review: Stray
★★★★☆ The saying goes that in the movies you should never work with children or animals. Acclaimed documentary short filmmaker Elizabeth Lo proves the latter part of this old adage to be complete nonsense with her feature debut, Stray. Following the freewheeling day to day life of dogs living on the streets of Istanbul, the initial novelty…
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