What could entice the Newport Beach Film Festival team away from the balmy days, blue seas and fresh shrimp filled restaurants of California to rain sodden...
1. Some things are an art form. For example: a. How to overshadow one of the biggest nights in Hollywood when you’re not going to win...
The Golden Globes nominations dropped in early December. The Critics Choice Awards noms dropped shortly after, as did those for the Australian Academy Awards. Every city...
Released: 27 September 2024 Director: Jon Watts Starring: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams A high profile DA, Margaret (Amy Ryan) invites a young...
Released: TBC (UK) Director: Kevin MacDonald A Republican presidential candidate who the mainstream media wants to bring down but the public turn out in their thousands...
Released: TBC (Venice Film Festival) Director: Pablo Larrain Starring: Angelina Jolie, Kodi Smit-McPhee Even the kids knew of Elvis and Freddie Mercury. So it was no...
Release: 10 January 2025 (UK) Director: Halina Reijn Starring: Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Harris Dickinson Nicole Kidman is one of the best actresses working today. She...
Elizabeth: The Lost Tapes – 5/5 “The press no longer wanted glamour. They wanted the destruction of glamour.” An astute observation in this fascinating look at...
Released: 2024 (Cannes) Director: Federico Luis Cast: Lorenzo Ferro, Pehuen Pedre, Kiara Supini, Laura Nevole A group of teenagers forming fast friendships, taking foolish physical risks,...
Released: 24 May 2024 Director: George Miller Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth Is there a more evocatively named female film character than Imperator Furiosa? You almost...
Yikes! I’ve obviously been coming to Cannes for too many years. I just saw Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal and he is a grey haired, middle...
When even the former First Lady, Hillary Clinton, rather inexplicably, posted about it. A political flame was added to the movie fire already raging across the...
Red Carpet The red carpet was nicely starry with big guns, old and new, such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Dame Helen Mirren, Jennifer, Lawrence, Robert...
Director: Iain Softley Cast: Ben Radcliffe, John Travolta Released: 1st December 2023 (Disney+) It’s sometimes said about actors that they have very little interest in saying...
With the autumn film festivals largely winding down, a clearer picture of likely future awards contenders is emerging. The acting categories, particularly, are shaping up. Although...
Director: Kevin Macdonald Released: London Film Festival 2023 John Galliano‘s rise in the fashion world in the 1990s was meteoric, by any standard. Within just a...
Director: Tom Stuart Cast: Ben Whishaw, Dino Fetscher, Marion Bailey In real life, grief is a very individual experience. In real life, it can be hard to get...
