January 2016

Screen Actors Guild Awards Winners 2016

The winners for the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2016 have been announced at a star sudden ceremony. Spotlight took home top honours for film with Leonardo Di Caprio and Brie Larson landing predictable acting wins. Meanwhile double wins for Idris Elba, Viola Davis, Queen Latifah and Uzo Aduba meant the event is already being widely praised [...]

Spotlight Review

The Plot: Inspired by actual events, Spotlight dramatically documents the efforts of the investigative reporting team of the Boston Globe to expose epidemic levels of child abuse within the Catholic Church and the subsequent systematic cover up by high ranking church officials. The Good: Spotlight is a truly Oscar worthy drama built around a tragic [...]

Trolls Official Trailer

Dreamworks has released their first look at their animated adventure based on cult kids toy classic the Troll doll. The  trailer gives n early indication of how the garishly colored big hair and plastic faces of your childhood will now garishly appear on screen. Official Synopsis Below: From the creators of Shrek comes the most [...]

Zoolander No2 Sydney Fan Screening Pictures

Check out a really really ridiculously good looking gallery of pictures of male model Derek Zoolander and VIP guests strutting their stuff down under at the fan screening of Zoolander No.2. It’s fair to say that after his years away form the limelight Derek Zoolander is so hot right now with his new big screen [...]

BFI Launch Shakespeare On Film

As the world celebrates Shakespeare 400 years after his death, the BFI, the British Council and Ian McKellen today unveiled BFI Presents Shakespeare on Film. With no other writer impacting so greatly on cinema, this programme explores on an epic scale how filmmakers have adapted, been inspired by and interpreted Shakespeare’s work for the big screen. It [...]

Are The Oscars Rascist?

In recent years the Academy Awards has increasingly become an uncomfortable  focal point for the never ending debate about Hollywood diversity. The Oscar nominations voted for by the 6000 strong Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, in particular the major acting awards, remain the most  iconic symbols of success and recognition. The absence of [...]

Jada Pinkett Smith & Spike Lee Boycott Oscars

Jada Pinkett Smith and Director Spike Lee have both publicly declared their intention to boycott this year’s Academy Awards ceremony over the much discussed lack of diversity in the acting nomination categories. For the second year in a row all 20 of the nominees in the best acting categories are white. Critics have particular pointed [...]

London Critics’ Circle Film Awards Winners 2016

Large-scale spectacle and fine-tuned intimacy shared the spoils as the UK’s leading film critics unveiled the winners of their annual awards at London’s May Fair Hotel tonight. Toward the end of the star-studded black-tie ceremony, hosted by comedian Robin Ince, it was George Miller’s high-octane action extravaganza Mad Max: Fury Road that raced ahead of [...]

The Revenant Review

The Plot: After a brutal bear attack a severely wounded 19th Century frontiersman Hugh Glass is betrayed by his own hunting party and left for dead in the inhospitable wilderness. He battles against seemingly impossible odds to survive and relentlessly track down those responsible across the deadly  wilds of North America. The Good: Directed with [...]

Cloverfield Surprise Sequel Trailer

Developed and shot in secret here is the first official trailer for Cloverfield sequel 10 Cloverfield Lane. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg and produced by J.J. Abrams the film finds Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher and John Goodman playing three inhabitants of an increasingly claustrophobic underground bunker. From the trailer it seems clear that their seemingly [...]