Talking with Oneself: An Academy Stuck in Celluloid
That cinema loves a sequel is no secret. This year sees the release of belated sequels T2: Trainspotting 2 and Blade Runner 2049, the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film,…
The Case of Casey Affleck: Can and Should Art be Separated from the Artist?
Content warning: sexual assault Is it possible to judge a work as independent or as a separate entity from its creator, especially when the artist has behaved in an unforgivable…
Politically Charged: An Oscars Story
The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, which took place on Sunday night in Los Angeles, was filled with surprising winners and some not-so-surprising political controversies and commentary. Everyone who got up…
Overtly political Oscar’s coverage failed to address gender inequality
The 88th annual Academy Awards (Oscars) ceremony saw a step in the right direction for a lot of good causes: there was a shout out for LGTBQ awareness from Sam…
Snubs, statuettes and discrimination: an alternate Oscars
The real point, surely, of any awards ceremony is to provide everyone the opportunity to be utterly irate about how their particular favourite film/ actor/ musician/ type of cumquat has…
We must do more to combat the Oscar’s ‘whitewash’
Idris Elba starred in ‘Beasts of No Nation’, released October 16th 2015, a Netflix original which achieved a 91% review on popular site Rotten Tomatoes, a 7.8/10 on IMDB and…