10 things we learnt from the Golden Globes 2025
Some things are an art form. For example: a. How to overshadow one of the biggest night’s in Hollywood when
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MOVIES
LFF Film reviews: Emilia Perez, The Apprentice, Twiggy
Emilia Perez Emilia Perez has an outlandish plot. It’s often predictable and it’s a musical in which the cast burst
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Film Review: Conclave
Conclave at LFF 2024 A talky film about electing the new Pope, on paper, probably wouldn’t guarantee audiences running to
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Film review: Blitz
LFF 2024 World premiere Director Steve McQueen told us at the press conference for his new film Blitz that he
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Babygirl: Film review
Venice Film Festival 2024 premiere Genre: Thriller/erotic Cast: Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Harris Dickinson Director: Halina Reijn Nicole Kidman is
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Maria: Film review
Venice Film Festival Genre: drama Cast Angelina Jolie, Kodi Smit- McPhee Director: Pablo Larain Even the kids knew of Elvis
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Cannes 2024: Furiosa
Cannes 2024 Furiosa Genre: Action adventure Cast: Anya Taylor Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke Director: George Miller By Rehna Is
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Friday Film: Made in England – The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Film Genre: Documentary Director: David Hinton Produced and presented by Martin Scorsese Release date: May 10th 2024 Imagine a dream
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Friday Film: Dune: part 2. Review
Dune: part 2 Genre: Sci-Fi Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Javier Bardem Release date: 1st March
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Friday Film: Barbie v Oscar
Barbie v Oscar By Rehna When even the former First Lady, Hillary Clinton, rather inexplicably, posted about it a political
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Friday Film: Origin (Venice Film Festival)
Origin Director: Ava DuvVernay Cast: Aunjanue Ellis, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga Genre: Biographical drama Ava Du Vernay’s Origin begins as
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Monday Movie : Golden Globes 2024
Golden Globes 2024 overview By Rehna Red carpet The red carpet was nicely starry with big guns, old and new,
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LFF 2023: High and Low – John Galliano
High and Low: John Galliano Genre: Documentary Director:Kevin McDonald John Galliano‘s rise in the fashion world, in the 1990s, was
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Weekend Woman:Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Presley was a gracious presence at the Venice film festival this week. The movie of her relationship with and
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LFF 2023: Priscilla (review)
Director: Sofia Coppola Cast: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi LFF update: I first saw Priscilla at its premiere at the Venice
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Monday Movie: Jeanne Du Barry
Jeanne Du Barry Cannes 2023 By Rehna Cast: Maiwenn, Johnny Depp Director: Maiwenn Genre: Historical drama With a seven minute
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Monday Movie: Oscar’s loss. Austin Butler wins
Two weeks on from the Oscars and my fellow counsel and advocates are still coming up to me, at court,
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Thursday Thoughts: Oscar ’robberies’
Sections of the Internet and social media are still livid that their favourites were ‘robbed’ at the Oscars on Sunday
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Monday Movie: Reflections on Oscars 2023
Oscars 2023: A solid but unremarkable show. A safe host. Predictable, often sentimental winners. A crisis team ready to spring
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Monday Movie: Reflections on Baftas 2023
(All photos and video by me, save the cover photo of Cate Blanchett and Austin Butler together) It didn’t rain
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Rehna’s red-carpet roundup
I’ve walked a great number of red carpets already in 2023 and several in the last couple of weeks. So,
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Friday Film: Oscar thoughts 2023
The Oscar nominations for the films of 2022 are out. Overall, it’s been a pretty good year; audiences of all
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Monday Movie: Desert Storm Stars
The Palm Springs Festival Awards Gala is an important stage on the route to Oscar. The festival is held in the first week
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Friday Film: Tar
Director : Todd Field Cast: Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Nina Hoss By Rehna (Venice film festival premiere) Tar stars Cate Blanchett.
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Friday Film – LFF 2022: Empire of Light
Director: Sam Mendes Cast : Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones Empire of Light gets only two stars
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