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BAFTAs

loaded question: how much do Oscar nominations or wins affect your desire to see a film?

Mon, Mar 14, 2022
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Do you pay attention to and seek out the nominees and winners, or does love from the Oscars make little difference to your decision (or not) to view a film? Is there any awards love that you do sit up and take notice of?

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The Father movie review: the quiet horror of Alzheimer’s

Sun, Mar 28, 2021
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A deeply compassionate, deeply unnerving portrait of a man suffering from dementia and losing his grip on reality. The empathy machine of cinema has rarely been put to such uncomfortably intimate use.

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Downton Abbey movie review: embarrassment of riches

Thu, Sep 19, 2019
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Wherein the working class revels in servitude, and wealth and privilege are deserved. Deeply reactionary and unlikely to please anyone not already enamored of the show. I get Anglophilia, but really?

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Icarus documentary review: on athletes’ compromised wings

Wed, Feb 28, 2018
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Perfectly illustrative of the serendipitous nature of documentary filmmaking as it pivots from a personal investigation of doping in sports into a thriller with global geopolitical ramifications.

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BAFTA 2018 winners announced

Mon, Feb 19, 2018
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big…

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