For more than 50 years and over the course of 15 films, filmmaker Mike Leigh has become one of the most respected and praised British filmmakers with seven Oscar nominations – five for his screenplays, two for his direction – as well as 13 BAFTA nominations, winning two and receiving two special BAFTA honors. That’s…
In hindsight, 2024 marked a milestone in Hollywood. Some of the tentpole films range from $451 million at number ten to the top spot with a whopping $1.7 billion, there is a wide variety of genres, including legacy sequels, 80s hits, R-rated superhero films, and animated family adventures. It’s also animated films were able to…
The new acclaimed epic historical drama, The Brutalist, has been named this year’s Best Film at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. The feature, which was directed and produced by Brady Corbet, also won the prize for Best Actor for Adrien Brody. NYFCC, which is the oldest critics’ group in the United States, is…
In the opening scene of Mike Leigh’s Oscar nominated and Golden Palm winner Secrets & Lies (1996), Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s character sings at her adopted mother’s funeral on a lush cemetery. She then played the mild-mannered and soft-spoken optometrist with a contagious smile who searches for her biological mother (Brenda Blethyn). When she now revisits Mike…
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