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 thriller. The London-based Mexican-born Alfonso Cuarón was the best director for the ground-breaking film, which also won awards for its cinematography, visual effects, sound […]
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 as picking the Best Actor award for Chiwetel Ejiofor and the prize for the Best Supporting Actress, for Lupita Nyong’o. Cate Blanchett was […]
Cinema audiences in the UK and the Irish Republic spent more than a billion pounds to see films released in 2013. It’s the third year in a row that the figure has been passed. With 165.5 million tickets sold, there were 4% fewer cinema visits than the previous year, but with slightly higher ticket prices, […]
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 potential contenders such as Emma Thompson, Robert Redford and Tom Hanks in the acting categories and Paul Greengrass in the directing category. Other […]
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 […]
Holding on to the top spot is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire after making £5,525,476 in its second week on release. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, who return to reprise their roles as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. In the last Hunger Games, they beat the Capitol at their own game and […]
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 – the opening ceremony of a long film awards season that will end with the Oscars in February. Starred Up will be up for […]
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 Marvel Cinematic Universe, the first seven include the three Iron Man films, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Marvel’s […]
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. Photographers gathered as the two elderly ladies sat together on a couch at the May Fair Hotel, sipping coffee, chatting, laughing and occasionally holding hands. Anyone […]
The BFI has hailed the success of Clare Stewart’s second London Film Festival at the helm, with last year’s record audience attendance being broken, with the figure passing the 150,000 mark for the first time. Sandwiched between two Tom Hanks films, the piracy drama Captain Phillips at the start and the Mary Poppins story Saving […]