Casey Affleck

In the blink of an eye, Christmas is nigh – and my oh my, has the year sped by. But there’s still plenty of time for big family films to sink your teeth into. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse promises a fun, intricately-animated action movie set in a different universe to...

The nominations are in, and now throughout Hollywood speeches are being written, falsely gracious losing faces practised, probably even somewhere red carpets dry-cleaned. And yet this year’s ceremony will take place in the light of what can only be described as a truly earth-shattering year for the industry. The...

August is always an interesting time in the film calendar. As networks prepare for the jam-packed ‘fall TV’ schedule, studios release projects that are too quirky to be considered awards bait, too avant-garde to be labelled tent-pole movies. With that in mind, this month brings a veritable pick-and-mix of...

As the industry’s mecca for fans of independent cinema, Sundance Film Festival is the annual amalgamation of actors, directors and press where many are granted with the opportunity to showcase their work and potentially sell distribution rights, aiming for a release during the rest of the year. Sundance 2017...

Whilst all of us here in the UK, and pretty much everywhere else consider the digits 999 to mean urgent help required, those across the pond prefer to use 911 instead, allowing ‘triple 9’ to become a code for: officer down. The circumstance in which this three-digit code is...

There are few directors in the world given complete freedom to create any project desired and Christopher Nolan is one of them. His projects have grown from Memento and The Prestige to the Batman trilogy and Inception, and Interstellar takes his work to another dimension… literally. Films with the...