Olly Dyche looks at the Best Picture nominees for this year’s Academy Awards and their prospects for winning the Oscar… 2022 saw a splattering of phenomenal movies, and the run up to the 95th Academy Awards was beyond exciting. With many unforgettable performances and fantastic scores (among many other highly acclaimed categories), 2023’s Oscar celebration […]
Movie Review – Tár (2022)
Tár, 2022. Written and Directed by Todd Field. Starring Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Mark Strong, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Sophie Kauer. SYNOPSIS: Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a […]
Martin Scorsese praises Tár for lifting the “dark clouds” over cinema
To some film fans, the legendary Martin Scorsese is a grumpy older man who hates flashy new films, but the filmmaker has found a new movie to put high on a pedestal. Scorsese made a surprise appearance at the 2023 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, appearing virtually to present Tár director Todd Field with […]
Staggered Release Dates: Why does the UK get the short end of the stick?
Jed Wagman on the archaic practice of staggered release dates… What’s all this fuss about staggered release dates? In the globalised inter-connected digital world that we’re currently living in, why does it take six months for a film to release in the UK? There will always be certain smaller and lesser-known films released in one […]
Black Adam blasts off with $67M at the U.S. box office and and $140M worldwide
The combined powers of Dwayne Johnson, the DCEU, and an audience starved of blockbuster content meant that Black Adam bowed with an expectation smashing $67 million at the domestic box-office and a worldwide haul of $140 million. A passion project for Johnson, Black Adam proved to be worth the 15-year wait by landing the actor […]
Movie Review – TÁR (2022)
TÁR, 2022. Written and Directed by Todd Field. Starring Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Mark Strong, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Sophie Kauer, Sylvia Flote, Vincent Riotta, Sam Douglas, Lucie Pohl, Vivian Full, Lee Sellars, Ed White, Jessica Hansen, Diana Birenytė, Dorothea Plans Casal, Fabian Dirr, Jan Wolf, Peter Hering, Artjom Gilz, Marie-Lou Sellem, Marie-Anne […]
Cate Blanchett is Lydia Tár in trailer for Todd Field’s TÁR
Ahead of its world premiere this September at the 79th Venice Film Festival, Focus Features has released a poster and trailer for TÁR, the psychological drama from writer-director Todd Field and starring Cate Blanchett. From producer-writer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as the iconic musician Lydia Tár. TÁR examines the changing nature of […]
Movie Review – Tar (2020)
Tar, 2020. Directed by Aaron Wolf. Starring Timothy Bottoms, Graham Greene, Aaron Wolf, Emily Peachey, Max Perlich, Nicole Alexandra Shipley, Tiffany Shepis, Stuart Stone, and Sandy Danto. SYNOPSIS: For Barry Greenwood and his son Zach, there’s not much left of their family business either. With the city’s subway expanding under their feet and their office […]
An ancient monster awakens in trailer for horror Tar
1091 Pictures has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Aaron Wolf’s upcoming horror Tar which follows a group of co-workers who find themselves fighting for survival when underground construction work awakens an ancient creature from the murky depths of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits; check them out here… For 40,000 years, a long […]