Forecasting the Oscars 2012
This Sunday, the 84th Academy Awards, known as the ‘Oscars’, will take place at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles to commemorate the best films of 2011. This year’s host will be Billy Crystal, who has presented the awards on eight previous occasions and is returning for the first time since…
Oscars 2012 – The Snubs
Foreign Filmmaking Legends – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa is my favourite filmmaker in history, not only for his determined cinematic vision, but for the character permeated throughout every one of his films. Outside of Anime and Godzilla (1954), Kurosawa’s films are the most recognised contribution to Japanese cinema. Starting his career as an assistant…
Review – House of Tolerance
Review – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a film surrounded with both excitement and disappointment, seems to have come from nowhere. Nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars this year and subsequently slammed by major critics (who insist on switching the words ‘loud’ and ‘close’, to other, more demeaning adjectives),…
Cinebar @ Broadway Cinema
Review – Bombay Beach
BAFTA Film Awards 2012 – Reaction
Staff Scrapbook: TV Guilty Pleasures
Diagnosis Murder The diagnosis? Murder. In terms of daytime television nothing comes closer to meeting a variety of audience expectations than the BBC’s staple part mystery, part medical and part crime drama. The show revolves around Dr. Mark Sloan, portrayed by the ever-endearing Dick Van Dyke, a medical…






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