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12 Years beats Gravity to BAFTA’s Best Picture
Gravity has come off the biggest winner of the night at the British Academy Film Awards, taking six trophies, but the top prize of the night, for Best Picture, eluded the space…
Philomena
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London Critics hail 12 Years a Slave
The British-led US slave drama 12 Years a Slave has come away from the annual London Film Critics Circle awards as the big winner, being chosen as the Best Film, as well…
Blog
UK film production and box office take both top £1bn
Cinema audiences in the UK and the Irish Republic spent more than a billion pounds to see films released in 2013.
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American Hustle, Gravity and 12 Years a Slave lead Oscar nominations
Last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters shocked the film industry when they overlooked Ben Affleck in the best director’s category, this year they outdid themselves, snubbing safe…
Cinema
I’m So Excited by Gravity: UK Screen’s best and worst of 2013
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…
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Still Catching Fire at the top spot in the UK
Holding on to the top spot is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire after making £5,525,476 in its second week on release.
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Starred Up and Selfish Giant lead BIFA nods
A prison drama that won the Best Newcomer honour for its first-time writer at the London Film Festival last month has scooped the most nominations at the British Independent Film Awards –…
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Thor breaks into the top spot in the UK
Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Thor: The Dark World is the second Thor film, first being Thor in 2011, and the eighth installment in the…
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‘EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON’: PHILOMENA’S 50 YEAR SEARCH FOR SON STOLEN BY NUNS
While I was in London I had a fascinating talk with Dame Judi Dench and an Irish lady named Philomena Lee whom the actress portrays in the movie Philomena.
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Philomena
Director: Stephen Frears - Starring: Steve Coogan, Judi Dench, Michelle Fairley, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sophie Kennedy Clark , Charlie Murphy, Peter Hermann, Sean Mahon, Mare Winningham, Simone Lahbib, Cathy Belton, Wunmi Mosaku,…