Well sing from on high, readers, let jubilation reign, let the Ferrero Roche be snapped up at half price along with some unpronounceable bottles of plonk. It’s that time of year once again when the film industry cherry picks the most palatable and lauded of its offerings from the last twelve months and decides which […]
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The Best of the BAFTA shorts at Exeter Phoenix
On Tuesday evening, a packed Studio 74 at the Phoenix sat down to watch the last year’s BAFTA shortlist for best short film and animated short film. Of course, as always at these events, there’s one thing on people’s minds; the future. Which of these short filmmakers is going to make it big, break out […]
30 Years of Drowning by Numbers: A Q&A with Peter Greenaway
Outside an English country home, framed with the shadow of a deceased bird blowing in the wind, a girl with a skipping rope looks at the stars and counts them, finally stopping at one hundred. When asked why she has stopped at one hundred, she simply replies; ‘once you’ve counted to a hundred, all the […]
Three Billboards is sorely misunderstood by its critics
Witty, poignant, and apparently controversial, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri has – since snapping up four Golden Globes and a number of BAFTAs – suddenly established a divisive place for itself in this awards season. It seems there are those of us who like it – looking at you Hollywood Foreign Press – and those among […]
Achievements A-Plenty at the BAFTA Game Awards 2016
Thursday 7th April saw the creators of the very best video games from 2015 get together in London for the 12th annual BAFTA Game Awards. Popular comedian and gaming fan Dara O’Brian returned to host the ceremony yet again and brought his usual witty insight into the video gaming industry (most notably in this writer’s […]
A night at the BAFTAs
It’s that time of the year once again; awards season. With the Oscars just a fortnight down the road, many film fanatics look to the BAFTAs (that’s British Academy of Film and Television Awards, acronym fans!) as an indicator to who will win the coveted prizes in the film industry. There were few surprises as […]