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Joanna Doniger: Eurovision 2013: Style Highlights

2013-05-21T04:04:19Z

Whilst many could claim that Eurovision has become dated and over politicised, very few could argue that it produces some of the most dramatic, outlandish and sometimes downright bizarre outfit choices.

Read more: Eurovision, Fashion, Style, UK Celebrity, Awards Season, UK Music, Bonnie Tyler, Video, UK Style News

Kaushik Ray: Eurovision 2013 - Ones to Watch

2013-05-16T19:00:00Z

The annual celebration of all that is kitsch, camp and quirky in European music comes to our screens this Saturday at 8pm BST, from Malmö, Sweden. We've watched both semi-finals and as many rehearsals as we can to give you a taster of what to look out for (and when to take a loo/fag/cuppa break).

Read more: UK, Russia, Bonnie Tyler, Eurovision, Malmo, Georgia, Italy, Ukraine, Denmark, Eurovision 2013, UK Music, Awards Season, UK Entertainment News

Jane Graham: Why the Critics are Wrong About Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby'

2013-05-15T19:00:00Z

The Great Gatsby is stunning, but it's meaningfully, provocatively stunning. This isn't just awesome spectacle for spectacle's sake. Luhrmann uses sensory overload in a similar way to Harmony Korine in Springbreakers - to disorientate the audience and send them reeling into a hallucinogenic whirl.

Read more: Leonardo Dicaprio, Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, UK Film, Reviews, Awards Season, UK Entertainment News

Paul Drury: From Brighouse to Cannes, 'Le Tour De Tan'

2013-05-17T19:00:00Z

With this year's Cannes film festival now in full swing, thought it was worth sharing a Cannes travel story with a difference. In 2012, we dared to dream the impossible dream. From a wet and windy West Yorkshire all the way to the world's most glamorous film festival.

Read more: UK-Travel, Awards Season, Filmmaking, UK-Film, Yorkshire, Cannes, Orange Fever, Red Carpet, Journey, Cycling, Brighouse, UK Entertainment News

Anne Morrison: Bafta: Nurturing Young Creative Talent Vital to Future of TV

2013-05-17T19:00:00Z

Bafta is known for celebrating excellence at ceremonies such as Sunday's Arqiva British Academy Television Awards, but it also engages in activity to help a diverse range of talented people to develop and grow in their careers.

Read more: Young Talent, UK Film, Bafta, Awards Season, UK-Awards, Generation Next, UK TV, UK Entertainment News

Sarah M. Jones: Why the Oscars Should Let Go of the Los Angeles Apron Strings

2013-03-11T19:00:00Z

Given we are in an age where traditional media, entertainment and communications are all being bulldozed by a digital, non-location specific cloud approach, standing there with arms crossed refusing to let this international celebration of film spread its glory globally, looking much like an incorrigibly stubborn little Oscars statue, is surely quite backwards.

Read more: The Academy Awards, Blockbuster Films, California, Awards Season, US Film Industry, Oscars, UK Movies, UK Film, La La Land, Tinseltown, Los Angeles, UK Film Industry, Hollywood, UK Entertainment News

Peter Frankopan: On History, Homer and Ben Affleck

2013-03-01T11:17:17Z

We should, I think, cut Hollywood some slack. It is easy to forget that history is all about dramatic license. Who wants to read a boring account of the past? Which historian does not want to spice things up? And even as far as flaws, errors and distortions go - well, bring them on.

Read more: History, Argo, The Oscars, Ben Affleck, Oscars 2013, Homer, Awards Season, UK Film, Blockbuster Films, Academy Awards, UK Entertainment News

Claire-Louise Meadows: Goodbye, Standards... And How to Bring Them Back

2013-02-28T05:47:22Z

Ok... I was waiting for the funny to happen... and it never showed. We're used to it, I suppose... we suffered the unbearable Ricky Gervais as host for far longer than we should have had to. But... wow... wasn't Seth MacFarlane awful?

Read more: UK Film, Seth MacFarlane, Oscars, Blockbuster Films, UK Cinema, Awards Season, Academy Awards, UK Entertainment News

Preetam Kaushik: And the Oscar Goes to Namaste

2013-02-25T09:06:49Z

This year's Oscars ceremony was unique in many respects. Ang Lee's Namaste only highlighted this uniqueness. Although the function itself was very much American in its outer trappings, the spirit reflected the effect of globalising on one of the most prestigious film awards.

Read more: Lincoln, Michelle Obama, Bafta, Life of Pi, Awards Season, UK Movies, UK Film, Oscars, Blockbuster Films, UK Cinema, Ben Affleck, UK Entertainment News

Sri Sritharan: In Defence of Seth MacFarlane

2013-02-26T11:10:45Z

MacFarlane will never be everyone's cup of tea, but the show's organisers would have known this.

Read more: Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy, Oscars, Hollywood, Academy Awards, UK Film, Argo, Blockbuster Films, Awards Season, Ang Lee, UK Entertainment News

Clive Botting: Al Gore Lectures the World but It's a Small Budget Independent Film That Gives a Post-Katrina Parable That Amazes and Delights

2013-02-26T08:36:03Z

It's a film that all can enjoy and be surprised and amazed by.

Read more: Reviews, Awards Season, Beasts of the Southern Wild, UK Movies, UK Film, Film Reviews, Oscars, Blockbuster Films, UK Cinema, UK Entertainment News

Thomas Patrick: Film Review: Cloud Atlas (2012)

2013-02-19T17:25:30Z

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, Cloud Atlas is a sprawling epic, historical, science fiction film that covers six distinct time periods from early settlers in the United States to a post-apocalyptic savage land after the 'fall of humanity' and it's quite unlike almost any other film around.

Read more: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Cloud Atlas, Xun Zhou, Jim Broadbent, Ben Whishaw, Jim Sturgess, Awards Season, UK Movies, UK Film, Blockbuster Films, UK Cinema, Reviews, UK Entertainment News

Paul Flannery: IMDB Top Trumps

2013-02-18T13:12:27Z

If you are anything like the actors I live with however, you'll just get drunk and play a massive game of Hollywood top trumps!

Read more: Trivia, Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Imdb, Movies, Top Trumps, Awards Season, UK Film, UK Students, Blockbuster Movies, UK Comedy, UK Cinema, UK Entertainment News

Jack Pelling: Film Review: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

2013-02-14T11:14:11Z

Quite why Renner and Arterton agreed to participate in such a meritless monstrosity, only they could say, but the usually reliable leads are poor. It may not necessarily be their fault; both young actors are talented, but they are not magicians.

Read more: Movie Reviews, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Movies, Awards Season, UK Film, Blockbuster Films, UK Entertainment News

Clive Botting: Is Leos Carax's Magically Insane Holy Motors More Bizarre Than Some of the Week's Headlines?

2013-02-15T07:45:25Z

Bizarre, dream-like, wonderful and truly surreal with cinematic references to Bunuel, Cocteau and Goddard amongst others.

Read more: Oscars-2013, UK Film, Holy Motors, Blockbuster Films, Oscars 2013, Awards Season, UK Cinema, UK Entertainment News

Jack Pelling: Film Review: A Good Day to Die Hard

2013-02-14T08:53:07Z

There is so much wrong with A Good Day to Die Hard that it is hard to know where to begin, but the majority of the blame rests with Hitman screenwriter Skip Woods.

Read more: Movie Reviews, Die Hard, Bruce Willis, A Good Day to Die Hard, Awards Season, UK Movies, UK Film, Film Reviews, Action Movies, Blockbuster Films, UK Cinema, UK Entertainment News

John Wight: Working as Ben Affleck's Stand-In During the Run-Up to the War in Iraq

2013-02-11T08:47:12Z

In 2003, during the run-up to the war in Iraq, I was living in Hollywood, where at the time I was working as Ben Affleck's stand-in on the movie Surviving Christmas.

Read more: Iraq War, Ben Affleck, Hollywood, Argo, Awards Season, Anti-War Movement, UK Film, Iraq War Anniversary, Blockbuster Films, BAFTAs 2012, Iraq Anniversary, UK Entertainment News

Daniella Gibb: Baftas 2013: Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Take Your Seats for the Second Act...

2013-02-11T09:33:32Z

Reinventing yourself and changing careers has almost become trendy. Think of all of the city folk you read about in magazines who wake up one day and realise they cannot stand the rat-race anymore and retrain as a yoga teache

Read more: Daniel Day-Lewis, BAFTAs 2013, Ben Affleck, Career Change, Award Shows, Argo, Awards Season, Writing, Blockbuster Films, UK Film, UK Entertainment News

Iddo Goldfarb: Four Weddings and the Funeral of English Manhood

2013-02-11T08:19:10Z

Hugh Grant has made a very decent living, chiefly under the patronage of Richard Curtis, portraying the most simperingly deferential man in the history of the species.

Read more: Richard Curtis, Guy Ritchie, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, UK-Oscars, Bridget Jones' Diary, John Cleese, Love Actually, Danny Dyer, Blockbuster Films, Awards Season, Hugh Grant, UK Film, Andie Macdowell, Jason Statham, Monty Python, UK Entertainment News

Lewis Shepherd: A Pirate's Life for Me?

2013-02-12T05:57:54Z

It appears that the film companies, and the cinemas for that matter have no idea just how extortionate these prices are (or maybe they do.) It feels like they don't realise that most people can't afford the prices they are charging in order to go to the cinema, therefore more and more people are turning to a 'life of crime' in order to obtain films to get some release from the hardships of day to day life.

Read more: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Cinema Prices, Illegal Downloads, The Avengers, Online Piracy, Blu-Ray, Cinema, Downloads, Box Office, Illegal File Sharing, Piracy, Dvd, Illegal Downloading, File Sharing, UK Film, Blockbuster Films, Awards Season, UK Entertainment News

John McMenamin: Hollywood Pope

2013-02-11T18:30:35Z

So, the Pontiff has decided to jack in his papal vestments. What is next for Mr Ratzinger? Clearly, the pull of Hollywood is too much for him to resist. I can see his rugged old features in a maverick cop role.

Read more: Photoshop, Movie Spoofs, Pope Benedict XVI, Awards Season, UK-Oscars. Oscars, UK Film, UK Religion, Blockbuster Films, Pope Jokes, UK Comedy News

Dee Dhara: Comic Artist Jack Kirby Not Acknowledged in Affleck's Argo?

2013-02-06T12:35:06Z

Jack Kirby brought comics to life through his highly expressive motion lines and unique rendering techniques - particularly those used to represent crackles of energy, which comic artists now refer to as 'Kirby Dots' or 'Kirby Krackles'.

Read more: Jack Kirby, Lord-of-Light, Argo, Awards Season, UK-Oscars, Galactus, Silver-Surfer, Oscars, Blockbuster Movies, Ben Affleck, UK Religion, Comic Art, UK Entertainment News

Charlotte Skeoch: Review: Wreck-It Ralph

2013-02-01T18:12:53Z

Wreck-It Ralph peddles the perfect brand of retro nostalgia. Bursting at the seams with references to the golden age of gaming, it cleverly navigates the balance between childish, yelping nostalgia and an appealing sense of technological progression

Read more: Blockbuster Films, Awards Season, UK-Oscars, Wreck-It Ralph, Rich Moore, Oscars, UK Film, UK Movies, Gaming, UK Cinema, Disney, Pixar, Animation, UK Entertainment News

Thomas Patrick: Review: Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

2013-01-31T16:06:49Z

Hyde Park on Hudson must be considered a disappointment. Apart from having our fill of films about King George VI (this is the third in two years) this is a particular stuffy, confused and in parts rather dull installment.

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Is Eric Roberts The Most Honest Man In Hollywood?

2013-01-29T11:00:14Z

Talking to Eric Roberts is a strange experience. He's been in 270 IMDB titles (some of which he's actually seen), he can summon Sylvester Stallone and...

Read more: Awards Season, The Toscars, UK-Oscars, The Toscars 2013, The Oscars, Eric Roberts, For Your Consideration, The Oscars 2013, UK Entertainment News