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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,…

Fences

Based upon August Wilson’s play of the same name – Wilson here also adapting his own work – Denzel Washington’s third directorial outing impresses as much as it frustrates. At…

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…