The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have, during the long and varied history of their annual award ceremony, shown favour towards three
Category: Drama
The Imitation Game (2014)
Good film can move you. Great film can move you to tears. Norwegian director Morten Tyldum’s biographical thriller The Imitation Game is unlikely to
FEATURE – THE GAME’S AFOOT, HOLMES
In 2009 the ex Mr Maddonna (otherwise known as Guy Richie), used the unlikely pairing of Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law to bring
K-Shop (2016)
Salah (Ziad Abaza) puts his academic studies on-hold in order to help his father run the family kebab shop, in a seaside town on
Drive (2011)
Drive, one of cinema’s smash hits from 2011, is like a bad car crash – you know you shouldn’t really stop to watch, but
Army of Shadows (1969)
Director Jean-Pierre Melville’s controversial World War II drama Army of Shadows (1969), stars Lino Ventura as Philippe Gerbier the head of a small French
Inseparable (2011)
Sometimes you really have to question the aim of a film. Inseparable (2011), written and directed by Dayyan Eng and starring Kevin Spacey, Daniel Wu
Parkland (2013)
Even in today’s culture of mass produced film fodder, something occasionally appears which reignites your passion for one of the basic fundamentals at the
Robin Redbreast (1970)
Several classic television chillers, dusted down and rereleased by the BFI, seem tailor made for Halloween and the haunting season. Amongst them is Robin
War Horse (2011)
There are two types of film within the rarefied world of the Hollywood Blockbuster – those made by Steven Spielberg, and those which
Murder By Decree (1978)
Only a cynic would claim that a film which had disappeared from view for so many years, got an airing on DVD due to
The Iceman (2012)
Watching The Iceman, the thriller by Israeli director Ariel Vromen starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder and Ray Liotta, one can’t help query the choice
Screen & Gone 