Who Benefits from the Chinese invasion of Hollywood? 3 October 201625 November 2016Husam Sam Asi 1 There was little surprise when Dalian Wanda Group announced last week that it was in talks to buy the Hollywood-based Dick Clark production [...]
Raindance to honour Ken Loach with new award 9 September 2016Jason Korsner The Raindance Film Festival is to present its inaugural Auteur Award to the veteran British director Ken Loach. He’ll be presented with the [...]
12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen to become BFI Fellow 25 August 2016Jason Korsner The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, a Fellowship, on the acclaimed British artist and director, Steve McQueen. McQueen rose to prominence [...]
Elvis & Nixon – Competition 15 June 201612 August 2016Jason Korsner The distributors Entertainment One have been good enough to offer our UK readers (sorry foreign visitors) some goodies to coincide with the upcoming [...]
Is It Right For Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Persian Poet Rumi? 10 June 201625 November 2016Husam Sam Asi A storm of angry criticism has been raging over the internet since writer David Franzoni, who won an Oscar for writing “Gladiator,” revealed [...]
Why is “Me Before You” Upsetting Disabled People? 9 June 201621 August 2016Husam Sam Asi Since its opening last week, the tearjerking romantic drama “Me Before You,” has been decried by the disabled as a false and misleading [...]
Loach’s anti-austerity film wins him a 2nd Palme d’Or 25 May 201615 October 2016Jason Korsner The British director Ken Loach has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time. Ten years after winning [...]
Woody Allen to open Cannes for a record 3rd time 29 March 201629 March 2016Jason Korsner The Cannes Film Festival has picked one of its most regular visitors – and one of the most prolific directors – to open [...]
Star Wars dominates Empire Awards 21 March 2016Jason Korsner Star Wars: The Force Awakens won the most awards at the Empire Awards, being honoured as the Best Sci-Fi, for its visual effects, [...]
Oscar spoils shared between Revenant, Spotlight, Mad Max – & SPECTRE 1 March 20161 March 2016Jason Korsner At an Oscars ceremony where there was as much talk about who was not nominated as about who was, there were a number [...]