“Men at some time are masters of their fate.” Giving off distinctly Caesar and Brutus vibes is Min-ho Woo’s The Man Standing Next, a semi-fictionalised account of the assassination of South Korean Pr...
I miss the cinema. The physical act of turning up at my local multiplex or indie to see the latest releases, be part of a festival or catch a retrospective. And I get it. In the midst of the global p...
Producer Johan Lundström and Director Jonatan Etzler’s live action short film Get Ready With Me is an unpredictable thriller that combines grim satire with the topical issues of teen angst, soc...
Now that the Oscar dust (or should that be glitter?) has settled, Hollywood can give itself a pat on the back for its celebration of diversity. After all, it managed to successfully deliver messages ...
On the morning of Friday 26th of October last year, my phone absolutely exploded with messages from friends and colleagues asking how I was taking the news. As a lifelong Kevin Spacey fan, the swathe...
Moonlight is a revelation. Not for the performances (although they are very good), or the cinematography, or even the writing. It is a revelation because it dared to approach themes and characters th...
Why are the #OscarsStillSoWhite? The 88th Academy Awards are getting a lot of stick. This year and in 2015, something seems to be missing: non-white nominees. Are non-white movie professionals coming...
Before it even reached the UK, the expectations for Still Alice were high. Due to the award-winning performance from Julianne Moore, opinion was almost certainly coloured by the pre-release hype surr...
As the old saying goes, you can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family. How many of us have sat at a party or round a dinner table and wondered just what on earth we did to deserve bein...
The nominees for the 86th Oscar ceremony have been announced. Three films stand out from the announcement. The Steve McQueen drama 12 years a Slave picked up nine nominations which include three of t...