Shadows on the Wall

It's been another unusually busy week for this time of year in the screening rooms, with a steady stream, of movies to watch. I'd be...

Awards season is in full swing now that the actors strike has ended, and I've had a couple of nice Q&A screenings this week (see Ins...

The 67th London Film Festival kicked off last night with a gala screening of Emerald Fennell's Saltburn, although due to the ongoing ac...

I've hit the cinemas in California this week trying to catch up on press screenings I missed while away from London. Godzilla: King of...

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...

A rather vicious bout with food poisoning derailed a few film screenings for me this week, leaving me feeling a bit like the Sun King on h...

Press screenings are starting to crank up again after an early-May lull, perhaps because so many big movies are coming up. Although it...

Big movies screened to the press this week include the action romp Monster Trucks , which is a proper guilty pleasure with a solid cast i...

I entered the press screening of Xavier Dolan's latest film here at the 60th London Film Festival with some trepidation. It was met wi...

Greetings from the end of Day 1 at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival . This is my first time at this festival - and my first vi...

A trio of star-powered movies screened to UK critics this week, starting with George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O'Connell in Mone...

That's Vin Diesel in the photo above. Yes, really. He's going a rather decent Tom Hardy impression in the olde worlde scenes in hi...

The 59th London Film Festival came to an end this evening with the gala screening of Steve Jobs . But before that, Athina Rachel Tsangari...

Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender bring their A-game to Macbeth , the visceral new film screened this week to London critics. It...

I only saw three films before leaving London for a brief holiday, and none were the heavy hitters (I'm missing them while I'm away...

There were several starry films shown to critics in London this past week, as many of our colleagues were still in Cannes watching things...

Big titles are starting to show up at press screenings again, although they're not being shown until very close to release dates, ofte...

The Sundance London Festival is winding down tonight, and it's been a rather crazy weekend at the O2 with films and filmmakers crawli...

London critics got a chance to catch up with this year's Sundance sensation, Lenny Abrahamson's Frank , starring Michael Fassbende...