By Sara Bright When Scott Beck and Bryan Woods released 65 in March 2023, the film arrived to a collective shrug from critics and a…
By Maria Bregman, writer and film critic Hollywood finally exhaled. After years of wringing its hands over the death of the theatrical experience and the…
By Maria Bregman I was in Paris when they announced it. The Golden Lion for Father Mother Sister Brother. There was this collective, slightly confused…
By Maria Bregman It was raining on Sunday, which is basically the only tradition the British Academy manages to uphold with any real consistency. The…
For twenty years, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair existed as cinema’s most tantalising ghost. Quentin Tarantino screened it at Cannes in 2006, then locked…
By Sara Bright It happened. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a body usually allergic to anything that goes bump in the night,…
By Sara Bright. Let’s be honest about the Golden Globes. It’s a dinner party. It’s a place where beautiful people in very expensive tuxedos pat…
By Sara Bright Let’s be honest. The Golden Globes have always been the slightly drunk, slightly embarrassing uncle of the awards season. They are chaotic.…
By Maria Bregman, writer, filmmaker, literary and art critic London in late November usually demands an umbrella and a stoic attitude, but this year the…
By Maria Bregman You know that feeling when you watch a film and can’t quite decide if it’s brilliant or if you’ve just been tricked?…