Tom Jolliffe on the return of the Western… Cinema runs in cycles. A genre may have its run and then have a lull of 10-20 years where audiences aren’t really interested. In the 30’s and 40’s you couldn’t move for gangster films. In the 50’s it was epics and the 60’s there was a huge […]
Oscars: What Should Have Won – There Will Be Blood for Best Picture over No Country for Old Men
Graeme Robertson on why There Will Be Blood should have won Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best that 2007 had to offer were something of an oddity, in that nearly every film nominated in the main categories dealt with rather dark and complex themes, with the only light in this […]