Category: Films

Golden Globes appear to be back to form, with all the A-listers in attendance, several feel-good wins – particularly Demi Moore for best female actor

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The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez and Shōgun won big at the 82nd Golden Globes, the unofficial kick-off to this year’s awards season. The low-budget epic The

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Mike Leigh is known for asking his cast of actors to develop their characters in rehearsal. It is an improvisational method that has helped make

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Independent director and screenwriter Jeff Baena – who was known for quirky hits such as Life After Beth and was the husband of that film’s

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After the nominations for this weekend’s Golden Globes were announced last month, there seemed to be an equal mix of cheers and jeers. For every

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Last month I wrote about British film-maker Mike Leigh creating a “string of perfectly crafted dramas with an uncanny element of verisimilitude” – dramas such

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Another Hollywood awards season kicks off this weekend with the Golden Globes, the industry’s glitziest yet most consistently troubled ceremony. Nominations for the 82nd edition

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Claes Bang (“Claes” rhymes with “face”, in case you were wondering) only became an actor by chance, after he was persuaded to join a production

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As of early January, it is still too soon to know how the year will shape out for documentary film, with many projects still to

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It’s no spoiler to say that We Live in Time is a tearjerker. It begins with the late-stage cancer diagnosis of its female lead, Almut

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