Posts Tagged ‘Oscars’
Film
Loveless
Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Aleksey Rozin) are a middle-class husband and wife on the verge of separation. Both equally as angry and out of love with each other, we follow the hunt for their son, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov)...
Film
La La Land
A Technicolour melange of fantastical dreamlike musicality, Damien Chazelle‘s La La Land is a gorgeous, potent and moving love song to a bygone age of golden Hollywood movie-making magic and to the potential and power of ...
Features
Janet’s Animation Corner: Animated Awards
It’s Oscar season, and when it comes to animation, there’s a distinct buzz around Pixar. Here’s hoping Riley’s got her emotions in check as Inside Out goes head to head with some pretty stellar films to seize the Mother Load: B...
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Rams
There’s got to be something wrong with a film review site that gives 5/5 to a movie about Icelandic sheep farmers but only 4/5 to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, right? Well, it’s really a matter of perspective. Force Awakens was...
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Oscar Nominations 2016
The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road dominate the Oscar nominations with 12 and 10 nominations a piece. Ridley Scott’s The Martian follows-up with seven but surprisingly didn’t see the veteran director nominated in t...
Film
The Danish Girl
It is a very rare and surreal experience when an entire audience is rendered silent, their sole focus on the film at hand, but such is the power of Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl. Eddie Redmayne brilliantly embraces the character...
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Oscar Winners 2015
At one point during the fancy red carpet entry process before the Oscar Winners of 2015 (full list below) were announced a huge bird landed and posed for photographers. It seems it was something of an omen (and no doubt a well...
Features
Oscar Predictions 2015
It’s that time of year again when the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts Sciences start handing out those little gold statues. Each year FilmJuice Editor Alex Moss hedges his bets in trying to predict who might walk away with the O...
Film
Whiplash
There are no two words more dangerous in the English language than ‘good job'” – this proclamation, ardently declared by Jazz instructor Fletcher (JK Simmons), serves as Whiplash‘s tagline. This phrase c...
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Oscar Winners 2014
Oscar Winners 2014 Taking place at a typically glitzy award ceremony, hosted by the brilliant Ellen DeGeneres, it was 12 Years A Slave that walked away with the Best Picture Oscar while Gravity took home an impressive seven Aca...
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