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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Another eclectic and record-breaking twelve months of cinema—complete with all its festivals and releases, scandals and social change—culminated on Sunday evening in Hollywood California at the 92nd Academy Awards, the biggest night of the year for the industry. As is becoming tradition the event was preceded by some prerequisite media scandal and recrimination regarding the […]

After recovering from a difficult 2017 at the box office with a bumper 2018, the global film industry witnessed its biggest player go into overdrive in 2019, as Disney completed a colossal takeover of 20th Century Fox and launched their streaming platform Disney+, while dominating ticket sales and exceeding $10 billion at the global box […]

After another eclectic twelve months of cinema, film festivals, scandals and social change, everything came to a head in Hollywood on Sunday the 24th of February at the 91st Academy Awards, the biggest night of the year for the industry. As is becoming tradition, the event was preceded by some prerequisite media scandal, this year […]

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 […]

After a difficult 2017 at the box office, 2018 saw the industry rally with a bumper year, topped by blockbusters like ‘Ready Player One‘, ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom‘ and ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout‘, while smaller fare like ‘I, Tonya‘, ‘Isle of Dogs‘ and ‘Hereditary‘ made it another eclectic year for film. On the supposedly more discerning […]

This year’s award season express made its final stop on Sunday evening in Hollywood California for the biggest night in global cinema, as the great and the good of world film assembled for the 90th edition of the Academy Awards. As Jimmy Kimmel returned to less eventful hosting duties, the subject of sexual harassment and […]

The culmination of the 2018 award season will be a March affair this year, as the great and the good of mainstream cinema gather in Hollywood on the first Sunday of the month to award the achievements in cinema over the last twelve months at the 90th edition of the Academy Awards. Although all award […]

Despite a difficult time at the box-office, particularly during the blockbuster summer season, 2017 has been a another solid and eventful year for film, featuring an eclectic mix of independent cinema and major tent-pole releases which as usual defined the landscape, and with industry new boys Netflix and Amazon making their presence felt come film […]

The 26th of February this year saw the culmination of this year’s award season at the 89th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood California, with host Jimmy Kimmel cracking up his assembled all-star audience. Apart from the surprise of ‘Moonlight’ winning best picture and the fiasco involved with announcing it, there were no major surprises at […]

The 26th of February will see the the culmination of this year’s award season at the 89th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood California, although all award shows are subjective and we can endlessly debate over who should win what, this is a chance for films and their filmmakers to be globally recognised for another great […]

The 12th of February 2017 will signal the biggest night in British cinema with British Academy of Film and Television Arts acknowledging the greatest achievements in film over the last 12 months, with the BAFTAs being awarded in London. Although we can endlessly debate subjectively over who should win and disagree with the nominations, and […]

2016 has been a another solid and eclectic year for film, without a single title dominating at the box-office or in critical acclaim; from comic-book titans like ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ and ‘Captain America: Civil War’ to outrageous comedies like ‘The Nice Guys’ and ‘David Brent: Life on the Road’, from powerful dramas like […]

Review 107min Genre:      Drama, War, Thriller Director:   László Nemes Cast:        Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn…and more Writers:    László Nemes and Clara Royer -Synopsis- In Auschwitz at the height of the Holocaust; a Hungarian member of the “Sonderkommando“, a special unit of Jewish prisoners forced to assist in running the Nazi death-camps, finds solemn purpose […]

The final Sunday in February saw the ever expanding awards season come to a climax at the 88th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood California, although all film & art awards are subjective and we can endlessly debate over who should win or be nominated, this was a chance for films and their filmmakers to be […]

Love was in the air this Sunday the 14th of February as both Valentine’s day and the biggest night in British cinema arrived at the Royal Opera House in London as the BAFTAs rolled into town, the usual red carpet scramble was here for everyone to see and actor/writer/comedian extraordinaire Stephen Fry returned as host […]

The 28th of February 2016 will see the year’s awards season come to a climax at the 88th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood California, although all award shows are subjective and we can endlessly debate over who should win what, this is a chance for films and their filmmakers to be globally recognized for another […]

The 14th of February 2016 will see the biggest night in British cinema with the BAFTAs being awarded in London, although we can endlessly debate subjectively over who should win and disagree with the nominations, and believe us we do, this is a chance for films and their filmmakers to be recognized for another great […]

Another 2 weeks of glamour and media frenzy comes to an end at the French Riviera, oh and there was also a film festival there apparently, tonight the 68th annual Cannes International Film Festival culminates with the announcement of this year’s “Feature Film” prizewinners, including the prestigious ultimate award the Palme d’Or. The awarding jury […]

Review 101min Genre:      Drama Directors:  Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland Cast:        Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, , Alec Baldwin…and more Writers :   Lisa Genova , Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland Julianne Moore’s Oscar-winning performance as a middle-aged accomplished professor of linguistics and family matriarch who is unexpectedly diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, as her family struggles to […]

Yesterday evening the year’s award season came to a conclusion at the 87th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood California, among all the glitz & glamor of red carpets and endless interviews, we witnessed the recognition of many of the greatest achievements in filmmaking over the last 12 months in the ultimate display of subjective prize-giving. […]

Sunday the 8th of February 2015 saw the biggest night in British cinema come to the Royal Opera House in London with the BAFTAs rolling into town, the usual red carpet scramble was here for everyone to see and actor/writer/comedian extraordinaire Stephen Fry returned for the 10th time to host. As usual the so-called “race” […]

The 22nd of February 2015 will see the year’s awards season come to a climax at the 87th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood California, although all award shows are subjective and we can endlessly debate over who should win what, this is a chance for films and their filmmakers to be globally recognized for another […]

The 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards took place in Beverly Hills on Sunday night with all the usual glitz & glamour and red-carpet dress obsession that comes with it, there was also the small matter of people being recognized for the great work they did on TV and Film in 2014 and here at Filmphonic […]

The 8th of February 2015 will see the biggest night in British cinema with the BAFTAs being awarded in London, although all award shows are subjective and we can endlessly debate over who should win what, this is a chance for films and their filmmakers to be recognized for another great year of work so […]

2014 has been a great year for film, from varied action blockbusters to comic-book titans to quirky comedies, in particular it’s truly been the “year of the thriller” with diverse contributions to the genre from ’71 and Fury to Gone Girl and Nightcrawler. FilmPhonic chronicles the people, events and films that have shaped the movie […]

Following a great year of films in 2014 we thought it would be good to recognize some of the achievements in movie-making with our own awards. Note: We have decided to include only films from after the 2014 Academy Awards in early March since most of those films were released in 2013 in the UK […]

115min Genre:    Comedy, Drama Director: Alexander Payne Cast:      Bruce Dern, June Squibb, Will Forte…and more Writers:  Bob Nelson Directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt), Nebraska stars Bruce Dern in an Oscar nominated performance as Woody Grant, an alcoholic elderly man driving his small town family to despair with his obsession with getting to Nebraska […]

117min Genre:    Drama, Fact Based Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Cast:      Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto …more Writers:  Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack Based on a true story and set in the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s Texas, this is the story of Ron Woodroof a rough living Texas good ole boy whose life is […]