Shadows on the Wall

It's been a busy week for me, running around town watching movies and stage shows. It was fun to catch up with the hugely engaging chara...

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...

With the distraction of the Paris Olympics on television, and the fact that they're so close we can almost touch them from London, it...

It was a party at the gala UK premiere of the romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue , an Amazon Prime movie at BFI Imax, the biggest s...

The weather in London has been diabolical this week, more wintry than spring-like with grey skies, rainshowers and weather that's oddly ...

The heatwave continues to bake Britain, with the promise of thunderstorms to cool things off this weekend. Cinemas are open to full capacity...

It's been another long, busy day at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival , going from film screening to epic-length queue to film screeni...

The 61st BFI London Film Festival powers into its final weekend with a flurry of world premieres, red carpet galas and lots of great litt...

At the 74th Venice Film Festival, I scheduled today one film lighter to give me a bit of time to catch up on writing, and also hopefully t...

The 74th Venice film festival kicked off today on the Lido with the world premiere of Alexander Payne's new comedy drama Downsizing (...

I only saw two movies this week - but then I am on holida y  at the moment! Dane DeHaan stars in  A Cure for Wellnes s, an overlong, visua...

London critics had a chance to catch up this week with the pointed drama Captain Fantastic , starring Viggo Mortensen as a father raising ...

Several big movies have been screened to London critics this week, including Joe Wright's Peter Pan prequel Pan , a flashy, big-scale ...

The 28th BFI Flare  (previously known as the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival) kicked off Thursday night with the European premiere ...

The week's big film was George Clooney's The Monuments Men , which quickly answered questions about why its release was shifted ou...

I've reached that point in the London Film Festival when my backlog of reviews begins to swell, and my lack of sleep begins to affect ...

London critics got a chance to see one of the most anticipated films of the year: Elysium , by District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp and st...

The most talked-about screening in London this week was for Steven Soderbergh's superb Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra , featuri...

Press screenings for London critics this past week included Disney's energetic new animated comedy-adventure Wreck-it Ralph , which is...