Oscars 2018

Last month saw the release of the highly anticipated Lady Bird, which became the highest rated film ever on Rotten Tomatoes at the end of 2017. The film, produced by indie favourite A24, is a huge landmark for women in film as it is the…

Best Picture What Will Win: The Shape of Water What Should Win: Dunkirk OR Get Out Guillermo Del Toro’s cold war-set monster fantasy is the slight favourite coming into the awards. While Martin McDonagh’s black comedy Three Billboards…

Lady Bird, director Greta Gerwig’s second feature (her first solo one), is a smart, funny and warm coming of age story that with time could well sit among the likes of John Hughes and his contribution to teen movies. What sets Gerwig’s film…

With the 2018 Oscar nominations announced many, including myself, gave a sigh of relief and a fist-pump at the range of diversity, with Greta Gerwig being (only!) the 5th female director to be nominated and Jordan Peele, director of Get Out…

Andrey Zvyagintsev, an undeniable talent, is one of the cinema’s great pessimists. His 2014 epic Leviathan retold the story of Job - the Bible’s most unforgiving tale - through Kolya, a hot head mechanic facing oppressive small-town…