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Six More Great Performances That Should Have Been Oscar Nominated (But Weren’t)

April 20, 2021 by Graeme Robertson

Graeme Robertson on six great performances which deserved to be Oscar-nominated… The Oscars are almost upon us in what will surely be, given the state of the world, a very unusual ceremony. The acting nominations for this year are a strong line-up of Oscar veterans, first-time nominees and, of course, the late great Chadwick Boseman […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Graeme Robertson, Movies Tagged With: 1984, Hanna, Selma, Shadowlands, The King of Comedy, Widows

60th BFI London Film Festival – A United Kingdom Press Conference Report

October 5, 2016 by Freda Cooper

A look at the trailer for A United Kingdom, the opener at this year’s London Film Festival, might give the impression that its star, David Oyelowo, is in serious danger of being typecast.  After his star-making turn as Martin Luther King in Selma, he’s delivering more inspiring speeches as future ruler of Botswana, Seretse Khama. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Exclusives, Freda Cooper, Interviews, London Film Festival Tagged With: A United Kingdom, Amma Asante, David Oyelowo, Jack Davenport, Jessica Oyelowo, Laura Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Rosamund Pike, Ruth Williams, Selma, Seretse Khama, Tom Felton

Interview: Carmen Ejogo talks Selma, meeting Coretta King and black actresses in Hollywood

June 15, 2015 by Luke Owen

Amon Warmann sits down with Selma’s Carmen Ejogo for the home entertainment release… Though the focus of Ava Duvernay’s Oscar-nominated Selma is rightfully on Martin Luther King, throughout there is a great emphasis on how a collective group can accomplish great change. Just as King was surrounded by a host of great men and women, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Exclusives, Interviews, Luke Owen, Movies Tagged With: Carmen Ejogo, Selma

Fifty Shades of Grey shatters records at the UK box office

February 18, 2015 by Gary Collinson

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 13th February to Sunday 15th February 2015… Well, given its colossal worldwide opening, this won’t come as a surprise at all, but Fifty Shades of Grey has shattered records here in the UK with its debut weekend of £13,550,290 giving it the biggest […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, UK Box Office Tagged With: American Sniper, Big Hero 6, Fifty Shades of Grey, Jupiter Ascending, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Paddington, Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots, Selma, Shaun the Sheep Movie, The Theory of Everything

Second Opinion – Selma (2015)

February 12, 2015 by Helen Murdoch

Selma, 2015. Directed by Ava DuVernay. Starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Carmen Ejogo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Oprah Winfrey, Common and Tim Roth. SYNOPSIS: A chronicle of Martin Luther King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.   Watching a film like Selma is […]

Filed Under: Helen Murdoch, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Ava DuVernay, Carmen Ejogo, Common, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Oyelowo, Giovanni Ribisi, Oprah Winfrey, Selma, Tim Roth, Tom Wilkinson

Big Hero 6 retains top spot at the UK box office

February 11, 2015 by Gary Collinson

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 6th February to Sunday 8th February 2015… Despite four new entries cracking the top ten this week, Disney’s Big Hero 6 and Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service held firm in first and second place this past weekend, with Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, UK Box Office Tagged With: American Sniper, Big Hero 6, Into the Woods, Jupiter Ascending, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Selma, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Taken 3, the interview, The Theory of Everything

David Oyelowo calls the reaction to Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘coloured’ slip “ridiculous”

January 30, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Benedict Cumberbatch came under fire this week after accidentally referring to black actors as “coloured” during a radio interview. The actor has since apologised for this gaffe. However Selma actor David Oyelowo has spoken out about this apology and called the negative reaction Cumberbacth received, “ridiculous”. “When you look at what he was actually saying […]

Filed Under: Luke Owen, Movies, News Tagged With: Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo, Selma

The Selma Solution: Boycott the Academy Awards

January 22, 2015 by Anghus Houvouras

Anghus Houvouras calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards… I’m frustrated. Another year, another round of Oscar nominations, and another outpouring of anger about the lack of female and minority nominees. Right now a legion of entertainment bloggers are hammering keys like monkeys trying to write Shakespeare to tell me the world ain’t fair. […]

Filed Under: Anghus Houvouras, Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Movies Tagged With: Academy Awards, Oscars, Selma

US BOX OFFICE – American Sniper blows away competition with $90 million

January 19, 2015 by Luke Owen

Your US BOX OFFICE report for 16th – 18th January Last week, it was Taken 3 that was breaking new barriers, becoming the second biggest January opening in history. But this week, American Sniper blew that away. Taking a whopping $90.2 million, American Sniper has shattered the record for biggest January opening. This is the biggest […]

Filed Under: Luke Owen, Movies, News, US Box Office Tagged With: American Sniper, Blackhat, Into the Woods, Paddington, Selma, Taken 3, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Imitation Game, The Wedding Ringer, Unbroken

Taken 3 opens to $91.8 million worldwide

January 12, 2015 by Luke Owen

Your US box office report for January 9th – 11th… Despite the mediocre reviews (read our review here) with some critics outright calling the film “Die Hard 5 bad” (Den of Geek’s Ryan Lambie), Taken 3 has opened to the second-biggest January weekend in the US with $40.4 million. Just falling shy of Ride Along‘s […]

Filed Under: Luke Owen, Movies, News, US Box Office Tagged With: Annie, Into the Woods, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Selma, Taken 3, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, The Imitation Game, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, Unbroken

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