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