EXCLUSIVE: The BFI London Film Festival closes Sunday with the world premiere of The Kitchen, a movie set in a dystopian London where an impoverished community is forced to fend for themselves in ramshackle apartment blocks. It marks the feature directorial debut of Oscar- winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and architect-turned-filmmaker Kibwe Tavares. …
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Godard speaks! Again. Quite rightly there’s a lot of hoopla about the world premiere of a 20-minute trailer the late cinema legend Jean-Luc Godard made for a feature film that will never exist: Phoney Wars. Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux explained Sunday at a special screening of the work that Godard …
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Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham lifted up her arms and proudly confirmed off the bruises she acquired, not on the soccer discipline at AFC Richmond, however doing “kick-ass” stunts on David Leitch’s motion film The Fall Guy. The bruises “are a badge of honor” she boasts. “You should see the other guy,” …
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Comedy is what we want proper now, says Nicholas Hytner (The Historical past Boys, The Insanity of King George), who ran London’s Nationwide Theatre for a decade. It’s fantastic to have heavy-lifting dramas by Ibsen or Schiller, however boy-oh-boy laugher is an more and more uplifting necessity. Which is the …
Read More »Actress Cate Blanchett has secured her eighth Oscar nomination, after securing a Finest Actress nomination for her position in Tár, headlining Australian hopes for the ninety fifth Academy Awards in March. Fellow Aussie Baz Luhrmann missed out on the Finest Director nomination however his Elvis Presley biopic Elvis nonetheless got …
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Austin Butler attended the Critics Choice Awards Sunday days after the death of Elvis’ daughter, Lisa Marie Presley. The “Elvis” star is nominated for best actor for his role in the Baz Luhrmann-directed biopic, which details the life of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Butler mourned the loss of …
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Lisa Marie Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, died Thursday at 54 after being hospitalized for cardiac arrest. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement Thursday evening. “She …
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