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Best Picture What Will Win: The Shape of Water What Should Win: Dunkirk OR Get Out Guillermo Del Toro’s cold war-set monster fantasy is the slight favourite coming into the awards. While Martin McDonagh’s black comedy Three Billboards…

This article contains spoilers. “It makes me want to love,” a young woman said behind me as we were leaving the theater after a showing of Call Me by Your Name. She was a stranger and she wasn’t even talking to me. I turned to her and…

A love letter to Los Angeles, the musicals of the 1940s, and jazz, La La Land follows Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a tight-lipped jazz traditionalist. Director Damien Chazelle hasn’t pushed the boat…

Why indeed? When Spotlight boasts gravitas in the importance of its story and Room illustrates a mesmerising strength of voice, even Mad Max claims bombastic, frenetic spectacle. Why then should a film about an inconsequential man, in a…

‘You know hope is a mistake’ Max grumbles. His words not only convey the confusion and pain of a man living in a world that is dead, but are also good counsel for any of us delusional enough to believe Mad Max: Fury Road could nab the best…

Alec Baldwin recently revealed that he threw his can of Coca Cola at his television screen the night Sean Penn won the Best Actor for his eponymous performance as Harvey Milk, when Mickey Rourke so desperately deserved the award over him.…

What’s so bad about mechanics?  I think I said this sentence so many times that it became an aesthetic mantra.  I fell into deep zen trances as the kinetic energy of the question brought me closer and closer to cinematic moksha.  Descending…

Cinema in 2015 was dominated by wide-screen, jaw dropping moments that reminded you just how much awe and wonder the medium can inspire. The best picture race this year has, surprisingly, reflected this. While there are the usual talk-y…

I once found myself engaged in a lively debate, which was centred upon that perplexing question of why cinema exists and what purpose does it serve. My friend argued, vehemently, that films exist purely to entertain, citing the likes of The…

The 87th Academy Awards are almost upon us with the lavish ceremony taking TONIGHT. For the past few months people have been feverishly trying to figure out who will win what, who will lose out and most importantly what will Jennifer…