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
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
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
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
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 […]
Banning Films Always Backfires
Neil Calloway argues that Russian censors have made a mistake… While you were getting upset that your favourite film hadn’t been nominated for an Oscar – some of us are still annoyed that Under Siege was never recognised by the Academy – you may have missed the news that The Death of Stalin has been […]
In Praise of Frances McDormand
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
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, […]
Oscars 2018: Predicting the nominations in the main categories
Tom Beasley takes a shot at predicting the final shortlists for the Academy Awards… The Academy will release their shortlists for the Oscars tomorrow, lighting the touchpaper on the final furlong of the awards season race. These nominations are the holy grail of the awards season calendar and being chosen will ensure the great and […]
Why Certain Films Do Well During Awards Season
Neil Calloway looks at why a certain type of movie will always get the nod at the Oscars… This coming Tuesday sees the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations. We’ve already had the Golden Globes, and if you really care about that sort of thing, the Baftas are next month. We’re deep into awards season, […]
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