Oscars

With an all-star cast and a momentously high concept premise, Downsizing is an intriguing, slightly confused film from Sideways and Nebraska director Alexander Payne. Payne situates his latest movie with the biggest of big picture ideas: human miniaturization. He paints us a near-future in which scientists have invented a...

Picking up 4 Golden Globes awards including Best Drama and thus currently highly tipped in the Oscars race, dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a truly scintillating picture with immense power behind its narrative teeming with both heartbreak and resilience. Set in Ebbing, a small rural US...

Despite missing out at the top gong of this year’s Oscars, La La Land’s unprecedented success has still managed to cause ripples in Hollywood’s lake of cinematic universes and delayed sequels. To add to those ripples is the sudden rise of musical films currently in production, such as a...

The film business moves pretty fast – if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Is the Academy going to terminate their relationship with Pricewaterhouse Coopers after that historical mishap? Does anyone care? No, because that’s old news and we must now...

Barry Jenkins’ first directorial breakthrough film Moonlight is a beautiful, poetic-like film which tells the story of a young African-American man, Chiron, by depicting three different stages of his life. With a Golden Globe for best picture, eight Oscar nominations and a bucket full of chaos, it was revealed that...

Although those running The Oscars may have got it wrong when they mistakenly announced La La Land as Best Picture, those attending the event got it so right with their styling. The last red carpet of the awards season was laden with beautifully dressed members of the film industry....

Lenny Abrahamson’s adaption of Emma Donoghue’s novel, Room, is a heart-wrenching and certainly stressful tale of the kidnapping and captivity of “Ma” (Brie Larson), a girl abducted by ‘Old Nick’ (Sean Bridges) and held prisoner in his garden shed for 7 years when the film begins. Her character is...