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...
Read Rehna’s Priscilla Review Priscilla Presley was a gracious presence at the Venice Film Festival this week. The movie about her relationship with and marriage to...
Ageing sucks; however, as we do, the nostalgic aspect of our upbringing becomes alarmingly more real. Words don’t come close to expressing the memories that both...
Warning: spoilers ahead “People keep telling me how my story is supposed to go. Nah, imma do my own thing.” It’s an exciting time to be...
Sections of the Internet and social media are still livid that their favourites were ‘robbed’ at the Oscars on Sunday night. If my inbox is anything...
It didn’t rain (or hail or snow, as it has done in past years). The host, Richard E Grant’s jokes were tame, but he didn’t completely...
The BAFTA Film Awards take place this Sunday, and I will be in the thick of it, representing Movie Marker. It’s only February, but Movie Marker...
Damien Chazelle is already deemed a recognisable director as his films portray a specific music theme, character prototypes and similar energy through working with a relatively...
Darren Aronofsky has always had a surrealist quality to his films. They are often disturbing, sometimes melodramatic, and always uneasy to navigate visually or narratively. His...
The Oscar nominations for the films of 2022 are out. Overall, it’s been a pretty good year; audiences of all ages, ethnicities and tastes returned to...
The Palm Springs Festival Awards Gala is an important stage on the route to Oscar. The festival is held in the first week of January, before the first of...
John Lennon famously said, ‘Before Elvis, there was nothing.’ Well, before Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (currently on release and doing great business), there have been several music biopics in...
Over the years, I have run the full gamut of the Cannes experience – from queuing up for early morning screenings and waiting in mile-long lines...
Director Joachim Trier’s films The Worst Person in the World and Oslo, August 31st are fundamentally identical despite their exterior dissimilitude. Oslo follows a young recovering drug addict called...
The Oscars are live on Sunday 27 March at 8pm ET on ABC. In the UK they will air at 1am GMT on the Sky Cinema...
Patricia Highsmith’s works have long proven cinematic goldmines from her debut novel Strangers on A Train becoming a 1951 Hitchcock classic through multiple iterations of Tom...
A couple of weeks ago, the Oscar nominations ignited the first real spark of public interest in awards season 2022. It centred around fans of Lady...
The Beatles ended because they needed creative and personal independence, not because Yoko Ono sat on an amp. Between their influences across visual art, social politics,...