The 89th Academy Awards – 2017 – Results! David Brake February 27, 2017 News In possibly the most sensational conclusion in Oscar history, Moonlight has won Best Picture! Not before the producers of La La Land had gone on stage, and actually held the Oscar for Best Picture. This all...
Debate: The Winners And Losers of Oscar Nominations 2017 Tom Bond January 24, 2017 Analysis, Debate, Features After two disappointing years of #OscarsSoWhite the Academy have gone some way to improving the diversity of their nominations, with nods for the likes of Denzel Washington, Bradford Young and Barry...
Top 20 Films of 2016: 1. Arrival David Brake December 31, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Each person you speak to has had a day. Some of the days have been good, some bad, but they've all had one. Each person you speak to has had a childhood. Each has a body. Each body has aches. What is it to be...
10 Fictional Movie Languages We’d Love To Learn Phil W. Bayles November 10, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The idea of visitors from other worlds is one of the oldest in all of science fiction, but Denis Villeneuve's new film Arrival is one of the very few that poses a genuinely thorny problem: how would we...
Contact: The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Ever? David Brake November 9, 2016 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Perhaps it’s a sign of how truly apocalyptic 2016 has felt that the year ends with two science-fiction thrillers, turning the lens away from the real dilemmas to focus on something a little more...
Arrival – Venice 2016 Review Stephanie Watts September 1, 2016 Reviews “Well, what do you make of that?" Colonel Weber (Whitaker) rather amusingly asks linguist professor Louise (Adams) after he plays her an indecipherable recording of the sound of aliens that have just landed...