AWFJ 2024 EDA Awards winners announced
The Brutalist, Conclave, and The Substance are the big winners…
Hugh Grant
loaded question: what’s a perfect cosy movie for long dark winter evenings?
I love the hygge of this time of year: candles, warm drinks, snuggling under a blanket watching films. But which films to watch?
daily stream: crime as just another form of capitalism
2020’s The Gentlemen is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves movie review: dudgeon and draggin’
A high-fantasy action comedy of tedious slapstick and obvious punchlines you scry the instant a wannabe medieval wag opens their mouth. It’s all borderline incoherent, sketched in cheap-looking CGI.
Small Axe: Mangrove movie review: parties and protests (LFF 2020)
A triumph. McQueen brings history to life and makes it sing with zest and passion, with a spirit that endures beyond the strife. A celebration of Black joy alongside a raging against Black oppression.
The Gentlemen movie review: sufficiently advanced crime
Guy Ritchie ups his game on his signature subgenre with a hilariously sublime crime comedy that acts as mirror on the legit world and oozes with crackling cynicism about culture and politics as well.
I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again, Saturday, January 4th
I’m back for my 11th appearance and the start of my fourth year as a regular recurring guest commentator on this always-fun culture-chat program…
AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced
Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).
BAFTA 2018 winners announced
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big…
Paddington 2 movie review: wrap yourself up in this bear hug
There is such kindness here, such humanity, such warmth and optimism. This is a fantasy of unique scope and astonishing emotional depth beneath the silliness.
