Awards

Last night was a celebration of all things in British film at the Moët British Independent Film Awards. The prestigious Best Actor award went to Colin Firth for his portrayal of George VI in The King's Speech. The Best Actress award went to Carey Mulligan for her role in Never Let Me Go. The King's...

We've got some Oscar news for you. Yes it seems a bit early, but some of the long lists have come out and you will not believe who's made the documentary list. None other than our very own super-stealth artist Bansky. His documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop has made it to the voting process for the...

Colin Firth's new role as George VI in The King's Speech is already being touted for Oscar nomination after receiving applause at The Toronto Film Festival on Saturday. This is surely good news for Firth, whose performance as Professor George Falconer in A Single Man narrowly missed out on the Best Actor Oscar...

If there's a statement that illustrates the difference between the Hollywood machine and the art of European film, it's British movie director Mike Leigh's statement that "I've always been concerned, for as long as I've ever been making films or stage plays, with celebrating the lives of ordinary people. That's...

This year there is only one US film is in the running to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at Cannes. So with the best of auteurs and cineastes from across the world all with their eyes on the prize, what chance does the US entry into the Official Selection stand? [caption id="attachment_873" align="alignnone"...

Oh they had us all fooled... Eminem can take a joke really; apparently the gag that Sacha Baron Cohen pulled at the MTV Movie Awards last weekend wasn't on the Slim Shady star at all, it was on all of us - the stunt was a massive set-up. Audience members and TV viewers were left stunned when Baron Cohen's...

The MTV Awards wasn't the industry's only opportunity to do a bit of back-patting over the weekend; Saturday night saw the third annual Spike TV Guys Choice in Los Angeles. As the name might suggest, this wasn't exactly a place for chick-flicks - the general theme was boys, bombs and booties... Almost a decade...

The MTV Awards aren't exactly the Palme d'Ors, but it would be nice to get to occasional surprise to keep the audience on their toes... Robert Pattinson's vampire film scooped so many prizes that the ceremony might as well have been renamed The Twilight Hour. First up Pattz and his co-star Kristen Stewart picked...

Scrap everything you've seen already and forget all that's line-up for the months ahead... We're not even half way into 2009 yet but Esquire has already named the years 'most important movie' - The Road, a post-apocalyptic tale of a father (Viggo Mortensen) and son on a mission for salvation in an unrecognisable...

Film festivals are so popular these days that even your gran's living room probably hosts one. That's not to say they're not worthwhile though. Since tickets to the likes of Cannes are harder to come by than an English language Palm d'Or winner, the smaller festivals provide a great opportunity to view screenings...