MOVIES
Friday Film : Mamma Mia 2 Here we go again!
If loving Mamma Mia is wrong then I don’t wanna be right! Guilty pleasure? Nope, not an ounce of guilt
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Friday Film : Whitney : review from Cannes 2018
CANNES 2018 : Whitney Kevin MacDonald’s documentary about Whitney Houston makes a shocking and disturbing revelation – that as a
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Friday Film : Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom by Saif aged 14
We like to receive contributions from readers to LawyersLife. Not all are lawyers. Here is a film review by 14
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Friday Film : Cannes 2018: Gary Oldman
CANNES 2018: Gary Oldman I’ve been lucky enough to get into all the masterclasses at Cannes this year and I’ve
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Friday Film : Cannes 2018: Solo, a Star Wars story
CANNES 2018 – SOLO: A Star Wars Story Solo is the only major Hollywood showcase film at Cannes 2018. Big
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Friday Film : 5 ways to improve the Oscars
Let’s start with basics: A. Movies are about fantasy. They star impossibly attractive or highly charismatic people. They are set
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Friday Film : The burden of Oscar: politics and film.
2017 was not overly kind to Hollywood. A drop in cinema audiences. Dismal summer box office. Increasing competition from the
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Friday Film : Call Me By your Name LFF
Timothee Chalamet is the boy wonder at tonight’s Golden Globes and the awards season this year. Not to be outdone,
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Friday Film : LFF 2017 snippets
LFF Snippets So, LFF was some time ago but perhaps some films are a dish best served cold. Ingrid goes
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Friday Film : Loving Vincent – LFF2017
LOVING VINCENT At the premiere of Loving Vincent held, appropriately enough, at the National Gallery I asked Hugh Welchman, the
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Friday Film : Cannes I get a witness!
You need to stock up on the energy levels to survive the Cannes film festival because it’s probably the
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Friday Film : The Lost City of Z by Sara Hemrajani
THE LOST CITY OF Z REVIEW The thrill of discovery, the obsession with adventure and the dangers lurking in the
Read MoreFriday Film : 10 things I learnt at the Baftas 2017
10 THINGS I LEARNT AT THE BAFTAS 2017 1. Glamour is best served hot. Ok, we didn’t get the usual
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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
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Friday Film : John Hurt RIP
The London Film Critics Circle was hosting its annual awards event the night Philip Seymour Hoffman died. A journalist had
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Friday Film : London Film Critics Awards 2017
As I’ve said before, it’s a tough, dirty chore going to glamorous awards events but, hey, someone’s got to do
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Friday Film : Golden Globes -some thoughts
The Golden Globes is a divisive awards show. If your favourites win, it’s a credible precursor to the Oscars. If
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Friday Film : Silence : film review by Sara Hemrajani
FILM REVIEW – SILENCE (2016) No other filmmaker conjures images of gangsters and criminal excess as vividly as Martin Scorsese.
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Monday Mourning : Carrie Fisher RIP
(Montage created by Q) There are those who think we would better serve a ‘feminist’ version of the late Carrie
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Tuesday Television : To Walk Invisible: The Brontes BBC drama
Wuthering Heights is my all time favourite book. There are others that are better plotted, more crisply written, ‘nicer’ but
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Friday Film :The Light Between Oceans : London premiere
Intimate isn’t a word I would normally use to describe a red carpet film premiere with hundreds of screaming fans
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Friday Film : London Film Festival 2016 highlights
LFF 2016 highlights Best films : LaLaLand is magical, dreamlike and bitterly real at the same time. If you loved
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Friday Film : LFF 2016: A United Kingdom
‘The deep love between these two people helped topple an empire’ said Jack Davenport at the LFF press conference for
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Thursday Thoughts : BrexPitt: The end of Brangelina (and hopefully the hate web)
In years to come people will know where they were when they heard that Brangelina was no more. I was
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