With the 32nd Edition of the BFI LGBTQ Film Festival opening on the 21st March, what better time than to take a look at some of the most eagerly awaited films in this year’s programme, and shine a light on the films we are most looking forward to catch.
Read MoreTrailer: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald
It’s finally here! Watch the brand new trailer of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true…
Read MoreOscars 2018: Live Blog
Follow our live blog and find who won what as the night progresses. You can have a look at all of the nominees we have reviewed, the Screenwords predictions, and all of our writers’ “best of 2017” thoughts meanwhile. And of course @screen_words and founding editor @linda_marric will be on Twitter into the small hours. Winners in bold. Best Picture: Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady…
Read MoreFilm Review: A Fantastic Woman
Reviewed by Linda Marric A few films have managed to garner the kind of good will directed at Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s brilliantly well observed feature A Fantastic Woman. Nominated for a foreign language Oscar at this weekend’s Academy Awards, the film offers a wonderfully complex, engaging and thoroughly affecting account of a young trans woman’s battle against preconceived ideas about gender and sexuality in a traditional latin society. Staring…
Read MoreBAFTA Predictions By Linda Marric
My BAFTA predictions: BEST PICTURE Will win: Three Billboards Should winl: CMBYN — Linda Marric 🇪🇺 (@Linda_Marric) February 18, 2018
Read MoreInterview: Megan Maczko On Her Role In Ninth Cloud
As The Ninth Cloud is released in the UK, lead actress Megan Maczko discusses her passion for voicing video games, working with Tom Hanks, the hazards of auditioning and the challenges of being an American living in England. Megan, you play Zena, the protagonist, In THE NINTH CLOUD. How would you describe her? Zena is a young woman living with an incredible amount of chaos in her heart, desperately seeking…
Read MoreFilm Releases: Weekly Round Up
A round up of this week’s new releases by our Editor Linda Marric The Maze Runner: The Death Cure The third and final instalment of this very popular dystopian trilogy sees it opening with a bang. An impressive action set piece which could rival any thriller worth its salt. The film is however sadly let down by a meandering screenplay which doesn’t seem to have got the memo that less…
Read MoreFilm Review: The Commuter
Reviewed by Linda Marric Sticking to what he does best, this week sees the return of Liam Neeson in yet another action packed thriller which is as ridiculously outlandish as we have come to expect from this most unlikely of action stars. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Non-Stop, Orphan, House of Wax), The Commuter is the kind of production which doesn’t seem to care about convincing story-wise, nor does it seem…
Read MoreBest Films Of 2017 By Sigridur Petursdottir
Icelandic film journalist and screenwriter Sigridur Petursdottir picks her favourite films of 2017. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh Frances McDormand has been one of my favourite actresses for a long time. In this movie, she gives it her all. Mildred is funny, tragic, dangerous, sensitive, clever, hurt, but also crazy. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a brilliant film. It’s well written, it makes you laugh, and it…
Read MoreFilm Review: The Man Who Invented Christmas
Reviewed By Linda Marric It’s fair to say that despite his popularity amongst TV viewers on both sides of the Atlantic, Dan Stevens has found it hard to make a full transition from his high profile TV role in Downton Abbey into the film world. However, with his latest roles in the brilliantly understated Marshall and now playing a young Charles Dickens in the charming yet flawed The Man Who…
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