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Bond is back – and so is Mendes
Sony Pictures has announced that Sam Mendes, who directed the most recent Bond film, Skyfall, will return to help Bond 24, which will hit cinemas in the UK in late October 2015…
Jason Korsner
Cinema
Documentaries reign at the Edinburgh Film Festival
Highlighting the increasing prominence of international co-productions, the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival has awarded it’s Best International Film prize to a UK-based film-maker, while the Best British Film went to a…
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British film wins Student Oscar
A British short animation has won the top prize in the foreign film category at the 40th Student Academy Awards.
Cinema
How Cannes helps the underdogs
With Cannes 2013 over, the festival award winners are slowly receding into the memories of those who were fortunate enough to see them, some of them possibly unlikely to see the light…
Cinema
Cannes shows Redford has lost nothing
Anyone who’s seen last year’s Oscar-winning Life of Pi, might feel that they’ve done someone trying to survive against the odds on a life raft in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Cinema
Inside the Coen Brothers at Cannes
No strangers to Cannes, the Coen Brothers were back this year with their study of a talented but struggling 1960s folk singer in New York City.
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Three hour lesbian film wins top honours at Cannes
A three-hour-long film about the love between two young women has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Cambodia’s Missing Picture wins Un Certain Regard
A Cambodian film, featuring clay figures to portray events in the country’s past for which the pictures are missing, has been chosen as the best film in the more artistic side-bar of…
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Pinewood expansion hopes dashed again
Local councillors in South Buckinghamshire have dealt a second major blow to Pinewood Shepperton’s £200m expansion plans.
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Olivia Colman double winner at TV BAFTAs
One of the stars of the Olympic sitcom Twenty Twelve, Olivia Colman, has surprised many, including herself, by taking two of the top honours at this year’s TV BAFTA awards.