The morning after the Oscar night before

20/24 in a hard year — not bad. Of my four misses, I was most surprised by Big Hero Six winning. They really don't like sequels, huh? Bu...

My Oscar picks 2015

'To start with the most hotly contested categories first. Best Picture is as close a race as can be between Birdman and Boyh...

What Hollywood sees in the mirror

'The Oscars are about self-image, picking a Best Picture that will act as an ambassador for the Hollywood filmmaking community. It’s abo...

My new Woody Allen top Ten

1. Annie Hall 2. Love and Death 3. Hannah and Her Sisters 4. Bullets Over Broadway 5. Zelig 6. The Purple Rose of Cairo 7. Manhattan 8. Ma...

REVIEW: BLACKHAT (Dir. Mann)

'One day, tracking shots that salalom around a maze of computer chips will look dated as montage shots of spinning newspapers, or those ...

One more and then I'm done

"... Shone’s reflections on Scorsese and his films are expressed with surprisingly lovely prose and demonstrate not only a great apprec...

REVIEW: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

'Taylor-Wood has taken great care in the casting of her heroine: soft of voice, absent-minded of manner, Johnson manages to spill into s...

Finally, we have a race on our hands

'Even before the detection of Lou Gehrig’s disease while studying cosmology at Cambridge, Eddie Redmayne’s makes us acutely conscious of...