‘The Favourite’ & ‘Roma’ Win Big At The London Critics’ Circle Awards
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite took home four awards from the London Critics’ Circle Awards this weekend, including Best British/Irish Film of the Year, and Best Actress and Support Actress. The dark comedy began the night with 10 nominations. Roma and Beast both took home two awards each, with Alfonso…
London Short Film Festival: Midnight Movies
A selection of bite-sized horrors served up as is LSFF tradition: at (just about!) midnight. Expect hints of Under the Skin sprinkled with Stranger Things, zombies, vigilante social justice shapeshifters, witches and scientific experiments gone awry – all any horror lover needs The Midnight Movies…
Fernando’s Most Anticipated Films of Sundance 2019
For the first time ever, I will be attending The Sundance Film Festival and I cannot be more excited. Sundance is one of the most acclaimed film festivals in the world, highlighting a ton of independent films and up and coming storytellers. This year is…
London Short Film Festival: Generation Gap
In Sweden, a single thirty-something woman awkwardly regales her son of her taste for younger men, whilst across the globe a nervous tourist seeks to impress his fun-loving Filipino father by adopting a hard-drinking, chain-smoking teen. These short films zoom in on the tempestuous and…
London Short Film Festival: Creature Comforts
If you’ve been following the site over the last couple of days, you’ll have seen our coverage of the London Film Festival this year, from the lovely bunch here at JumpCut Online. Today, I’d like to share my picks from the Creature Comforts category this…
The 2019 Critic’s Choice Awards: Full List And Winners
The 24th Annual Critic’s Choice Awards presented their awards Sunday night to categories across the film and television platforms. Viola Davis presented the #SeeHer Award to Claire Foy (The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Crown, First Man), an award given to women who persistently…
London Short Film Festival: A Hostile World
From the lifelong trauma of experiencing an atomic bomb to the suffocating ubiquity of tabloid culture, this international selection looks to shine a light on the hostile, dangerous worlds we occupy – those interior and those waking nightmares, where standing up for injustice is inextricable…
London Short Film Festival: Out Of History
This international selection sifts through the rubble of history, finding new meaning in the aesthetics, ideology and artefacts of the past. Whether it be finding parallels between the romantic mysticism of medieval knights and the political dissenters of today or the timely excavation of surveillance…
London Short Film Festival: A State Of Anxiety
Straddling the political and the personal, this collection surveys the multitudinous causes of anxiety in the 21st century, from the angst of familial strife to the numbed alienation of violence filtered through social media. Combining a heady mix of animation, experimental film and drama, this…
2019 Line-Up For Final Girls Berlin Film Festival (FGBFF) Released
Thursday, January 10th 2019 Berlin, DE – The 4th edition of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival will take place in Berlin, Germany from January 31st to February 3rd 2019. FGBFF showcases horror films that were directed, written, and/or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers from…