Friday Film : Newport Beach Film Festival Awards 2017
When I was first asked to cover the Newport Beach Film Festival Awards, I had visions of traipsing across in
Read MoreWhen I was first asked to cover the Newport Beach Film Festival Awards, I had visions of traipsing across in
Read MoreThe London Film Critics Circle was hosting its annual awards event the night Philip Seymour Hoffman died. A journalist had
Read MoreAs I’ve said before, it’s a tough, dirty chore going to glamorous awards events but, hey, someone’s got to do
Read MoreThe Golden Globes is a divisive awards show. If your favourites win, it’s a credible precursor to the Oscars. If
Read MoreFILM REVIEW – SILENCE (2016) No other filmmaker conjures images of gangsters and criminal excess as vividly as Martin Scorsese.
Read More(Montage created by Q) There are those who think we would better serve a ‘feminist’ version of the late Carrie
Read MoreWuthering Heights is my all time favourite book. There are others that are better plotted, more crisply written, ‘nicer’ but
Read MoreIntimate isn’t a word I would normally use to describe a red carpet film premiere with hundreds of screaming fans
Read MoreLFF 2016 highlights Best films : LaLaLand is magical, dreamlike and bitterly real at the same time. If you loved
Read More‘The deep love between these two people helped topple an empire’ said Jack Davenport at the LFF press conference for
Read MoreIn years to come people will know where they were when they heard that Brangelina was no more. I was
Read More“People go to see films that have a buzz around them,” said Meryl Streep. We all listened intently, our fingers
Read More1. Venice in August is unlike London in August. In London there are thunderstorms. Venice is hot, hot, gloriously, unbearably,
Read MoreEarly on in Tale of Tales, Salma Hayek’s pearl adorned queen eats the giant, bloody heart of a sea monster,
Read MoreOn 15th June 2016 Deeyah Khan will be screening her Bafta nominated documentary Jihad at a special Lawyers Life event held
Read MoreIgnore the tepid reviews. X Men Apocalypse is a fun night out for a superhero fix. Far better than bloated
Read MoreHere’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: after seeing Florence Foster Jenkins at its premiere in London last month,
Read MoreArtful musing or pretentious philosophising? Terrence Malick’s work tends to split audience opinion along those lines – and his latest
Read MoreSometimes you go into a preview screening, hunker down in your seat (without popcorn) and wait for the disappointment to
Read MoreWith Hollywood studios no longer satisfied with single superhero-led films, the trend is for a melange of various comic book
Read MoreLet’s start with basics: A. Movies are about fantasy. They star impossibly attractive or highly charismatic people. They are
Read MoreAt a pre Baftas party once I saw a young woman throw herself at Leonardo DiCaprio. I mean, literally fling
Read MoreGlamour needs hot weather. Ok, we didn’t get the usual sleet, snow or lashing rain at Sunday’s British Academy
Read MoreIf you want genuine diversity in film, try Sherpa on for size. Talented, skilled people of different ethnicities on both
Read MoreSomehow, the man who made Adam Sandler’s “The Cobbler,” a diverting trifle from earlier this year, is the same man
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