2026’s award season railway made its final and definitive stop in a middle Sunday in March this year and as usual brought to Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre the great and the good of mainstream and global cinema, gathered for the industry’s biggest and most glitzy back-patting extravaganza at the 98th edition of the Academy Awards. American […]

After a recent history of HFPA controversy, boycotts and takeovers, and recent years of an industry in general perilous flux, 2026’s first big film & TV awards ceremony took place this Sunday as the 83rd edition of the Golden Globe Awards rolled into tinseltown. Despite another difficult year for the industry at the box office, […]

The 2025 award season railway made its final and most important stop this year once again as a March affair, bringing with it the great and the good of mainstream and global cinema for the industry’s biggest and most glitzy back-patting extravaganza in Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, as they gathered in she shadow of the fires […]

After a recent history of HFPA controversy, boycotts and takeovers, and last year’s successful return after one of the most tumultuous years in recent Hollywood history thanks to 2023’s WGA & SAG-AFTRA writers & actors strike, not to mention an industry in general perilous flux, the year’s first big film & TV awards ceremony took […]

The 2024 award season railway made its final and most important stop this year once again as a mid-March affair, bringing with it the great and the good of mainstream and global cinema for the industry’s biggest and most glitzy back-patting extravaganza in Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, gathered to award the achievements in cinema over the […]

After one of the most tumultuous years in recent Hollywood history thanks to 2023’s WGA & SAG-AFTRA writers & actors strike and an industry in general perilous flux—not to mention the controversies surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) in recent years—the year’s first big film & TV awards ceremony took place this Sunday as […]

The 2023 award season railway made its final stop this year once again as a mid-March affair, bringing with it the great and the good of mainstream and global cinema for the industry’s biggest and most glitzy back-patting extravaganza in Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, gathered to award the achievements in cinema over the last twelve months […]

The culmination of the 2022 award season and biggest glitzy back-patting extravaganza for the film industry returned to Hollywood and the Dolby Theatre in full force this year after a scaled-back pandemic show in 2021, as the great and the good of mainstream and global cinema gathered on the last Sunday of March to award […]

After a year of customary controversy and a Hollywood boycott over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) perceived lack of diversity and ethics, not to mention a virus variant currently spreading through America like wildfire, the year’s first big film & TV awards ceremony took place this Sunday in unrecognisable form when the 79th edition […]

Review 120min Genre:      Documentary Director:   Michael Moore Cast:        Michael Moore, Krista Kiuru, Tim Walker…and more Country:   USA -Synopsis- Irrepressible American documentarian and film-activist Michael Moore takes a slightly more optimistic than usual satirical look at the world, as he “invades” a bunch of foreign nations to see what he can take back to the good […]

Review 103min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama, Sport Director:  Stephen Frears Cast:       Ben Foster, Chris O’Dowd, Jesse Plemons…and more Writers:   John Hodge, David Walsh Biographical drama from British director Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity) about the rise and spectacular fall of cancer survivor, 7-time Tour de France winning cyclist and disgraced drugs cheat Lance Armstrong, chronicling […]