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Oscars: What Should Have Won – The Insider Over American Beauty for Best Picture of 1999

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Graeme Robertson on why The Insider should have won over American Beauty at the Academy Awards…  The line up for the Oscars celebrating the best of 1999 could arguably be seen as something of a slow year in terms of cinematic brilliance, at least in my opinion. While none of the films nominated is particularly […]

Oscars: What Should Have Won – L.A. Confidential Over Titanic for Best Picture

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Graeme Robertson on why L.A. Confidential should have won over Titanic at the Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best of 1997 was a ceremony dominated by one film, James Cameron’s romantic disaster epic Titanic – a film that devoured the box office and won itself an absurd 11 Oscars including Best Picture, a feat previously […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: Nemesis

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Ricky Church continues his look at the essential Jean-Luc Picard adventures with Star Trek: Nemesis… Up until last week’s premiere of Star Trek: Picard, the end of The Next Generation era wasn’t the series finale ‘All Good Things…’, but the 2002 feature film Star Trek: Nemesis. While a lot can be said for the film’s overall quality as the […]

Exclusive Interview – Cinematographer Robert Yeoman talks about Bottle Rocket and his longterm collaboration with Wes Anderson

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Rachael Kaines chats with cinematographer Robert Yeoman about working with Wes Anderson… It’s been two decades since the release of Wes Anderson’s first feature film, Bottle Rocket (1996) and a lot has changed for the people involved. The film follows Anthony (Luke Wilson) and Dignan (Owen Wilson) as they fail to pull off various ill-conceived […]

Disney’s acquisition of Fox is good for the MCU, but bad for the movie industry

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Tom Beasley looks at the positives and negatives of Disney buying up the assets of 20th Century Fox, and what that means for cinema… After weeks of speculation, it has finally happened. Disney has acquired Fox’s entertainment assets, including its film and television studios. The massive deal, which is certainly one of the biggest in […]

Oscars 2018: Predicting the nominations in the main categories

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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 […]

The Golden Globes are absolutely useless in predicting Oscars success

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Tom Beasley argues that the Golden Globes do not deserve their position as a major awards ceremony and Oscars precursor… The film world briefly lit up with awards excitement earlier today with the announcement of the nominations for the 2018 Golden Globes. It was Guillermo del Toro’s warm and wildly enjoyable fantasy romance The Shape […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: First Contact

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… Though Star Trek: The Next Generation ended with ‘All Good Things…‘, Captain Picard and his crew would go on to have a few more adventures in the next iteration of Star Trek feature films. Of those four TNG films, perhaps the […]

The Matrix is perfect for rebooting and it’s the right time to do it

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Luke Owen praises the news of the Matrix reboot… Back in 2014 I wrote an article titled Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is everything wrong with reboots. In it I argued that the idea behind rebooting the classic 1980s comedy was good in principle (it’s an easy enough premise to adapt and update) but the execution was […]