Monday Movie : Cruella
What a joy it was to finally go to the cinema on Saturday evening . Even being unable to get
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MOVIES
Never had you : short film by Rehna
I have written and produced/co-produced for short films about family law. They are all legal dramas. The current president of
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Monday musing : Oscars in memoriam
Call me Nostradamus lite. Some of my pre-Oscars show predictions were spot on. The one I got spectacularly wrong, however,
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Monday Music and Movies BAFTAs
Good evening all! In case you hadn’t noticed, yesterday evening saw the 74th BAFTA ceremony in a virtual broadcast in
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Friday Film – LFF 2020 : Ammonite
Ammonite is a painstakingly well crafted, slow period drama about repressed female sexuality, stoicism, devotion to a calling and the
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Friday Film – LFF 2020 : Herself
Director Phyllida Lloyd brings the bright colours and music, as she did in her box office behemoth Mamma Mia but
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Friday Film: Rehna Recommends – LA Confidential
Pitch perfect performances from every single member of the cast. A storyline that keeps you gripped from beginning to end
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Friday Film : Rehna Recommends – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
It was when I heard two young shelf stackers in Sainsburys raving about the film, the first subtitled film, I
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Friday Film : Tenet review by Jeremy Hall
TENET – Review Do you remember that blissful 3 week lull in your life, sandwiched between the last visit
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Friday Film : Misbehavior review by Rehna
In 2011 I was asked to judge the UK heat of Miss Universe. I went to fulfil my judging duties
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Friday Film: The True History of the Kelly Gang by Rehna
The True History Of The Kelly Gang Director: Justin Kurzel ast: George Mackay, Essie Davis, Russell Crowe Release date: 28.2.20
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Friday Film : Oscar and me by Rehna
So, one year, I was in a hearing at the High Court until 6pm on a Friday. On a plane
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Friday Film : Awards Fever 2020 by Rehna
(All photographs from the London Film Critics Awards are by Qaiser (Q), our creative director) Either the powers that be,
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Tuesday Trends: Golden Globes
Golden Globes fashion 2020 So, last week saw Hollywood’s finest A listers hit the red carpet for the second most
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Friday Film: Golden Globes 2020 predictions
After the various precursor critics awards which were largely divided between a range of films and actors, come the big
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Friday Film : My Time : a short film about menstruation
Director: Giulia Gandini One of the good things about awards season is getting to see films that you would otherwise
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Weekend World : Cats, the movie review by Rachel
Cats– A great film that doesn’t deserve its negative reviews I am a massive fan of the musical Cats.
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Friday Film: Little Women
This is likely to be an unpopular review with many readers but here goes – I didn’t care much for
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Venice/LFF film: The King
If they had called it Henry V it would have invited inevitable comparisons to the films starring Laurence Olivier or
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LFF 2019: Mystify -Michael Hutchence
How will Michael Hutchence be remembered in the Pantheon of rock gods? Richard Lowenstein, the director of a new documentary,
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Friday Film – Judy : film review by Rehna
Judy starts so well. We see a close-up of the young Judy Garland’s face, wide eyed and full of self-doubt.
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Friday Film – Downton Abbey
A couple of years ago I went to a talk on ‘Diversity in the media’. A small group of Afro-Caribbean
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Friday Film: Joker (Venice Film Festival) by Rehna
Joaquin Phoenix delivers a devastating, psychologically dense joker. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) works as a clown in Gotham City. Along
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Friday Film : Tomorrow and the Butterfly
Tomorrow and the Butterfly Feature length Documentary : Directed by Allesandro Soetje Butterflies don’t fly straight but they always
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Monday Mood: The name is Bond. James Bond, by Eliza
Happy Bank Holiday Monday to you all! Well, I hope you have some popcorn left over from last week’s movie
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