Here’s a complete list of 2017 BAFTA award winners
The BAFTAs last night awarded several top prizes to Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Emma Stone), ...
Tag: UK
Watch Ryan Scafuro’s Election Night, a short documentary about America’s long evening
Inauguration Day is this week. It’s also my birthday on Inauguration Day. If you’ve seen some of my previous film and TV-related posts ...
Reviews
Review: I, Daniel Blake
Bureaucracies make great villains. Faceless and absurd, they operate in such nefarious ways and are perfect machines for dehumanization. Bureaucracies are reliably inefficient, ...
Reviews
Tribeca Review: The Banksy Job
There are cock and bull stories and there are shaggy dog stories and there are complete piss-takes. The Banksy Job is kind of ...
Review: High-Rise
High-Rise is a bit all over the place, and it’s a bit of a mess, but it also seems to be that way ...
Reviews
Review: My Scientology Movie
Louis Theroux won me over many years ago with the show Weird Weekends. In each episode, Theroux embedded himself in a subculture and ...
Trailers
Watch the trailer for The Survivalist, a moody post-apocalyptic drama/thriller
The Survivalist was one of my favorite movies from last year’s Tribeca Film Festival. (You can read my review at another site here.) ...
Ridley Scott wants to adapt The Prisoner for the big screen
Originally aired in 1967 and 1968, The Prisoner is one of the best TV shows of all time. Many directors have tried to ...
Listen to Radiohead’s unused James Bond theme song for Spectre
Spectre was sort of wonky as recent Bond movies go. The film was full of Bond callbacks, particularly to the Roger Moore era, ...
Netflix teases its 12 new episodes of Black Mirror for Season Three
It’s now official: Netflix has ordered 12 new episodes of Black Mirror for Season 3. As we reported last time, Charlie Brooker is ...
Netflix will produce new episodes of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror was given new life when Netflix added it to its streaming library in late 2014. Many a thinkpiece ensued, and ...