Shadows on the Wall

Awards season continues to gather speed, with the Golden Globes on Sunday. I vote in these, and it was nice to see some sign of the internat...

My work schedule on a TV crew was a bit lighter this week, so I was able to see a few screenings. These included the documentary Will & ...

While the Cannes Film Festival continues in the South of France until this weekend, I've been keeping busy here in London with an eclect...

With the sunshine blazing across Great Britain, cinema box office is likely to take a hit these days. Although maybe the air conditioning wi...

As Britain experiences a heatwave during the final week of Wimbledon and the start of the Euro-2022 women's football championship, it...

With the warm, sunny weather this past week, it wasn't easy to concentrate on movies, so I spent a bit of time each day outside gettin...

TRIVIA ALERT! Only one star had two covers to herself: Keira Knightley. Two had one solo cover and a shared one: Brie Larson and Marg...

It's been a busy week catching up with movies here in London. The biggest films were entries in decades-old franchises.  Child's P...

It's been another odd mix of screenings in London this week, with the added distraction of sensational weather over the four-day Easte...

There were no screenings this week due to Christmas, but I have had a few screeners to catch up with at home before voting deadlines. I ...

It's been nice to only see three films in the three days after the film festival ended (rather than three or four a day). The main e...

This week, London-based critics finally got to see the latest Studio Gibli film When Marnie Was There, which is getting a very late relea...

London critics caught up this past week with Ron Howard's watery epic In the Heart of the Sea , starring Chris Hemsworth. It's an ...

In the absence of UK press screenings, critics had to actually buy tickets (shock horror!) to see Fifty Shades of Grey on Friday morning w...

UK critics finally got their first look at Lee Daniels' all-star epic drama  The Butler this week. While it plays out essentially a C...

Speed was the name of the game at press screenings this week, as critics boarded Disney's Planes,  the spin-off from Pixar's Cars ...

Wes Anderson's new all-star quirk-fest Moonrise Kingdom was screened to London critics at the same time as its Cannes premiere. It op...