The Lego Movie moves in straight to the top spot after making an amazing £8,051,140 in last weekend’s box office. The film follows an ordinary Lego minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, as he is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant from gluing the universe together. With a […]
2013 has been another busy year for UK Screen, with more than a hundred theatrical releases reviewed and the usual mix of big celebrity interviews and reports from awards, such as the Oscars and the Golden Globes, and festivals including Cannes, Toronto and the London Film Festival. The best releases of 2013 explored themes of […]
The highly anticipated science fiction thriller, Gravity, has soared to the top by grossing £6,238,375 on its opening weekend. The film is directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by Alfonso Cuarón, who you may know as the director of Children of Men, and stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Bullock and Clooney play astronauts who survive […]
Coming late in the year, the London Film Festival is continuing its modest streak of bringing some of the best films of the year’s other festivals – including Sundance, Cannes, Venice and Toronto – to Britain. Many festivals insist on screening the world premieres for their films, but with a total of 234 features during […]
This weekend, The Conjuring, a small budget horror movie about a family who endure frightening experiences after moving into a possessed house , beat Hollywood’s big blockbusters like R.I.P.D and Turbo in the US box office, debuting to $41 million. Why do filmgoers have such an insatiable appetite for such superstitions? Since the dawn of […]
Now that Argo has won the award for best picture it would seem that the Oscar campaigns are finally over for another year. But not a bit of it. Already buzz is beginning to circulate around possible contenders for next year’s honours. And this time the ubiquitous Tom Hanks, missing from this year’s nominees and […]
Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage thriller cum Hollywood satire Argo has won the Best Picture award at the Oscars – the first film to do so without a Best Director nomination since Driving Miss Daisy in 1990. It also picked up the honours for the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. With a total of three […]
Most of this year’s Oscar nominees have been the guests of honour at an exclusive luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel – an annual event at which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences brings the nominees together for
The nominations for Britain’s most prestigious film awards – the BAFTAs – have set up a race between the silent film, The Artist, and the big screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
The Artist, which picked up three Golden Globes at the weekend, is in the running
The Artist and The Descendants have emerged as the films to beat, this awards season, after collecting many of the key awards at this year’s Golden Globes.
The black and white, silent movie The Artist was voted the Best Comedy