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2018 Oscar Predictions: Who Will, Could and Should Win

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The 90th Academy Awards, honoring the best films 2017 had to offer, is quickly approaching, with the ceremony roughly one month away. In the video below, I share my predictions on who will take home the night’s big prizes (including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and more), who could steal it away […]

Was 2017 Really A Record Year For British Cinema?

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Neil Calloway isn’t convinced by the BFI’s claims about the British film industry… This week saw the release of the British Film Institute’s official statistics for 2017. As ever with these sort of things, it was a record-breaking year for British film. More people went to the cinema in the UK in 2017 than in […]

If you’re a person who gives bad reviews to films you’ve not seen, perhaps you should rethink your life

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Samuel Brace on the campaign to sabotage the Rotten Tomatoes score of Marvel’s Black Panther… In the grand scheme of nefarious machinations, the topic of disgruntled movie fans (‘fan’ being a word I’m hesitant here to use) dishing out bad review scores to films which have yet to be seen, falls rather lower on the […]

Oscars: What Should Have Won – Judgment at Nuremberg over West Side Story for Best Picture of 1961

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Graeme Robertson on why Judgement at Nuremberg should have won over West Side Story at the Academy Awards… It’s Oscar season again, so it’s time to take a look at Oscar ceremonies of the past and spotlight the films that I feel should have won the coveted Best Picture trophy over those that ultimately did. […]

An Unsubstantiated Opinion: Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics

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Anghus Houvouras on Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics… When forging our opinions, we spend a unnecessary amount of time worrying about being on the ‘right’ side of an argument. When it comes to cinema, there is no ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. There are only widely varying feelings of the entire human […]

In Praise of Sam Rockwell

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of the vastly underrated Sam Rockwell… So after doing a piece on the fantastic Frances McDormand, sticking with the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri connection, it seemed apt to do a piece on an actor who has always slipped just below the radar. Sam Rockwell is always great and […]

Good Concept, Bad Delivery

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look at when good concepts are badly executed… Occasionally you’ll see a film or a TV show and you wonder why they bothered at all. Everything goes wrong. Sometimes it starts from the very concept. In the case of remakes for example, you know right off the bat that some films […]

In Praise of Frances McDormand

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Tom Jolliffe celebrates the career of Frances McDormand… I have a number of favourite actors. If I had carte-blanche to cast a film it would probably be filled up with characters. Maybe brilliant underachievers, who never quite hit their heights for one reason or another (Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Rutger Hauer), or maybe they just […]

Oscars 2018: Biggest snubs and surprises from the Academy Award nominations

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Tom Beasley takes a look at the twists and turns provided by today’s Oscar nominations, including the biggest snubs and most shocking surprises… The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were dished out today and it’s fair to say that this was perhaps a more interesting crop of nominees than many expected. The big winners, […]