Posted by Gui on March 11, 2024
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 […]
Posted by Gui on January 9, 2024
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 […]
Posted by Gui on March 13, 2023
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 […]
Posted by Gui on October 14, 2022
Review 136min Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller Director: Noah Baumbach Cast: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy…and more Writers: Noah Baumbach and Don DeLillo -Synopsis- A quirky academic and his anxious wife struggle to lead their paranoid young family through the turmoil of everyday life in suburban 1980s America, only to be forced onto a […]
Posted by Gui on March 28, 2022
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 […]
Posted by Gui on February 8, 2022
The culmination of the 2022 award season and the glitzy back-patting extravaganza for the film industry will be a spring affair this year, when the great and the good of mainstream and global cinema will gather in Hollywood on the last Sunday of March to award the achievements in cinema over the last difficult twelve […]
Posted by Gui on January 10, 2022
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 […]
Posted by Gui on September 1, 2021
Review 141min Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance Director: Leos Carax Cast: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg…and more Writers: Ron Mael and Russell Mael -Synopsis- A mysterious musical chronicle of the relationship between an intense and troubled stand-up comedian and a celebrated opera singer, whose glamorous lives are turned upside down by the arrival of […]
Posted by Gui on April 26, 2021
After the most disruptive twelve months of cinema in living memory, the award season express made its final stop (literally) of the year on the last Sunday in April as the 93rd Academy Awards rolled into Tinseltown. Bucking this year’s award show trend of hybrid ceremonies and virtual acceptances the Academy of Motion Picture Arts […]
Posted by Gui on March 1, 2021
Following the most disruptive year in cinema history since World War II and arguably ever, and with a hugely compromised 2020 release slate which nevertheless saw some notable premieres primarily on the small screen, the sputtering and delayed award season railway made its first major stop of 2021 in Beverly Hills on Sunday for a […]
Posted by Gui on February 2, 2020
Review 131min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde…and more Writers: Billy Ray, Marie Brenner, Kent Alexander… and more -Synopsis- During the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, a humble Georgia security guard becomes an instant hero when he saves scores of people from a pipe bomb planted […]
Posted by Gui on January 6, 2020
As usual the new showbiz year kicked off with one of the biggest award ceremonies in the industry’s calendar, as the stars aligned with the global media in Beverly Hills on Sunday for the 77th annual Golden Globe awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Along with all the celeb-watching glitz and glamour […]
Posted by Gui on January 22, 2019
The culmination of the 2019 award season will return to being a February affair this year, as the great and the good of mainstream cinema gather in Hollywood on the last Sunday of the month to award the achievements in cinema over the last twelve months at the 91st edition of the Academy Awards. Although […]
Posted by Gui on January 7, 2019
As per tradition the cinematic year kicked off with one of the biggest award ceremonies in the industry calendar as the stars aligned in Beverly Hills on Sunday for the 76th annual Golden Globe awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Along with all the red carpet glitz and glamour came the task […]
Posted by Gui on February 20, 2018
Review 120min Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama, Sport Director: Craig Gillespie Cast: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney…and more Writer: Steven Rogers -Synopsis- Fuelled by resentment and a difficult upbringing dominated by a hyper-critical mother, combative American figure skater Tonya Harding rises through the ranks of competitive global ice skating in the early 90s, only to […]
Posted by Gui on January 8, 2018
As per tradition the cinematic year kicked off with one of the biggest award ceremonies in the industry calendar as the stars aligned in Beverly Hills on Sunday for the 75th annual Golden Globe awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Along with all the red carpet glitz and glamour came the task […]
Posted by Gui on November 20, 2017
Review 121min Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama, Sport Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris Cast: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough…and more Writer: Simon Beaufoy -Synopsis- A light-hearted story of the struggle for equal rights in professional tennis, set against the backdrop of the media circus surrounding the exhibition match between legendary women’s world number one […]
Posted by Gui on May 13, 2017
Review 132min Genre: Drama Director: John Madden Cast: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw…and more Writer: Jonathan Perera -Synopsis- A tenacious and talented young Washington lobbyist takes on the powerful and influential gun lobby in a battle to pass gun control legislation, a dirty fight destined to produce casualties, but one which she is determined […]
Posted by Gui on January 9, 2017
The 74th annual Golden Globe Awards took place in Beverly Hills on Sunday night with all the usual glitz, glamour and red-carpet frenzy that comes with it, there was also the small matter of recognizing the great work done for TV and Film in 2016 and here at FilmPhonic we give you a recap on […]
Posted by Gui on November 30, 2016
Review 96min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney…and more Writers: Todd Komarnicki, Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow -Synopsis- Clint Eastwood directs and Tom Hanks stars in a biographical drama about one fateful event in the life of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger; the veteran US Airways pilot who saved 155 […]
Posted by Gui on October 6, 2016
115min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Antonio Campos Cast: Rebecca Hall, Tracy Letts, Michael C. Hall…and more Writer: Craig Shilowich -Synopsis- Rebecca Hall stars in a biographical drama about the final days of Christine Chubbuck; a Florida local news reporter whose psychological issues and personality traits conspired with a deep-seated resentment about her work, driving her […]
Posted by Gui on May 29, 2016
Review 99min Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller Director: Jodie Foster Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell…and more Writers: Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore, Jim Kouf … and more -Synopsis- When a self-styled financial TV guru’s stock tip goes drastically south; an irate working-class investor takes the entire show hostage in an effort to expose the truth […]
Posted by Gui on March 4, 2016
Review 125min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: James Vanderbilt Cast: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace…and more Writers: James Vanderbilt & Mary Mapes -Synopsis- Journalistic drama chronicling the events surrounding CBS producer Mary Mapes and anchor Dan Rather’s report about president George W. Bush’s questionable military service and the subsequent backlash that cost them their careers. […]
Posted by Gui on January 26, 2016
Review 127min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Patricia Riggen Cast: Antonio Banderas, Juliette Binoche , Rodrigo Santoro…more Writers: Mikko Alanne, Craig Borten , Michael Thomas…and more -Synopsis- Big-screen dramatization of the real Chilean mining collapse of 2010 where 33 miners were trapped for over 2 months, while government officials and engineers from around the world struggled […]
Posted by Gui on May 5, 2015
Review 103min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Jon Stewart Cast: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Shohreh Aghdashloo…and more Writers: Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari & Aimee Molloy Drama based on the memoirs of Iranian “Newsweek” journalist Maziar Bahari who was imprisoned and abused by Iranian authorities on charges of espionage following the highly disputed Iranian presidential elections […]