What to see this week in the UK
From I, Tonya to Julius Caesar, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue reading...
View ArticleThe highest form of flattery? In praise of plagiarism
Echoes of Amélie in Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, traces of Nabokov in Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person ... Where is the line between influence and plagiarism?The age of the internet, where...
View ArticleWhy The Shape of Water should win the 2018 best picture Oscar
Ahead of the 2018 Oscars, Cath Clarke argues that the quiet female steeliness at the heart of Guillermo del Toro’s fish-love fable should make the Academy rethink its aversion to fantasy Girl meets hot...
View ArticleBlack Panther digs its claws into the top spot at UK box office
Pioneering Marvel blockbuster maintains its supremacy as Hugh Jackman crowdpleaser The Greatest Showman gets a singalong boost Having already impressed with its £10.5m UK opening, plus previews, Black...
View ArticleHow to predict the 2018 Oscar winners just by looking at their ads
Call Me By Your Name is doomed and Get Out is going places ... at least if the ‘for your consideration’ posters for this year’s nominees are anything to go byNobody knows who’ll win the best picture...
View ArticleOscars 2018 predictions, timetable and all you need to know
The 90th Academy Awards kicks off on Sunday evening (US Pacific time). Here’s what you need to know, when you need to know it by and who will win the key prizesFull list of Oscar winners as they are...
View ArticleWho will win? Our film critic Peter Bradshaw's Oscars predictions
Will The Shape of Water and Three Billboards dominate at the first post-Weinstein Academy Awards? Our chief critic makes his picksOscars 2018: the red carpet, the winners, the speeches – liveThe...
View ArticleGuillermo del Toro wins best director award for Shape of Water at Oscars 2018
Del Toro becomes third Mexican director in five years to win the award, for the ‘creature feature’ starring Sally Hawkins•Oscars 2018: the red carpet, the winners, the speeches – liveGuillermo del Toro...
View ArticleA battle cry for inclusion: The Shape of Water triumphs in Oscars of seismic...
Guillermo del Toro’s outcast fantasy wins best picture in a ceremony that called for more representation and female empowerment in HollywoodHelen Mirren’s jet ski to BB8 backstage: Oscars 2018 – in...
View ArticleOscars 2018: The Shape of Water and Frances McDormand steal the night – as it...
The biggest night in film had one of the most unpredictable best picture races in years, but top acting prizes all went with the favouritesReport: Guillermo del Toro’s creature feature picks up best...
View ArticleThe Shape of Water's Oscars win is the triumph of a real artist and immersive...
Guillermo del Toro has created a richly sensual and dreamlike film that, in the end, seduced the Academy without being too threatening Related: Oscars winners 2018: the full list At the end of a...
View ArticleThe Shape of Water wins best picture Oscar
Guillermo del Toro’s creature feature, starring Sally Hawkins, takes the top prize of the night at the Academy awards•Oscars 2018: the red carpet, the winners, the speeches – live•The full list of...
View ArticleRadicalism lite: eight things we learned from the Oscars 2018
The Shape of Water’s win was one for the outsiders and trans film-makers made a breakthrough, but this year’s air of protest stopped short of tearing down the barricades The Oscars needed a crisis-free...
View ArticleHas The Shape of Water smashed the Oscars glass ceiling for fantasy and...
The whimsical fantasy won best picture and horror satire Get Out was rewarded, but this is unlikely to be a turning point for the genre movie Ever since 2009, when the Academy expanded the number of...
View ArticleBlack Panther gobbles up Red Sparrow at snow-disrupted UK box office
Marvel franchise is top of the tree for third week in a row, with Jennifer Lawrence spy thriller a distant second, while Lady Bird proves an indie hit Freezing snow and disrupted transport across the...
View ArticlePeter Rabbit kicks Black Panther off the top of the UK box office
Family-friendly bunnies hop to the top in their first week with double the takings of Alicia Vikander’s Lara Croft reboot Tomb Raider While Black Panther extends its run at the top of the US box office...
View ArticleHow gay cinema is calling on the past to point at a radical future
A wave of quietly revolutionary films are taking a thoughtful and celebratory look at queer identity – and reaping the rewards at the box officeOn the penultimate night of this year’s recent Cannes...
View ArticleBest films of 2018 so far
The very best of 2018, from Black Panther rewriting the rules for superheroes, Gary Oldman going to war as Churchill, and Maxine Peake blazing her way through 70s sexism Raucous thriller about the...
View ArticleThe 50 best films of 2018 in the UK: the full list
Alfonso Cuarón delivers a layered, poignant Mexican drama to top our critics’ poll of movies, joining tales of game-changing superheroes, confused teenagers, musical lovers and terrified familiesSee...
View ArticleMary Poppins, The BFG and Spectre: your complete Christmas film guide
The best festive films, from the classic The Grand Budapest Hotel, to modern favourites such as Up and Brooklyn, plus the creepy baby from Twilight and everything in betweenLes Mis, Torvill and Dean,...
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