Is Oppenheimer a lock across the board? Does Barbie have any chance? Our critic makes his final predictions – and highlights who should have been nominatedWith a terrible inevitability, this is set to be the Enheimer Oscars. The Barb half has faded a...
Focus / Culture - 2 months ago
From Robert Donat’s heart-breaking Mr Chips to the real-life Mr Bachmann, Judi Dench’s venomous schoolmarm to Paul Giamatti’s classics stickler in The Holdovers, cinema loves teachers, whether inspirational or awfulI had a few teachers I adored in my...
Focus / Culture - 3 months ago
Christopher Nolan’s atomic biopic takes 13 nominations followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’s feminist fantasy with 11Killers of the Flower Moon comes away with 10 nods – but Barbie winds up with eightOne female director on shortlist – and snubs for Margot R...
Focus / Culture - 3 months ago
Sideways director Alexander Payne reunites with that film’s star for a 70s-set tale of a boarding school’s Christmas holiday left-behinds that’s as achingly sharp as it is funnyA cantankerous, unpopular teacher, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti); a bright,...
Focus / Culture - 3 months ago
Alexander Payne's story of a cantankerous teacher holed up for Christmas with a wayward teen and the school cook is expertly told with gentle, grownup comedyThe year’s best Christmas movie arrives in the UK a bit late for Christmas: it is a genial, g...
Focus / Culture - 3 months ago
A chance audition – and a broken femur – led to a role in Alexander Payne’s boarding school drama The Holdovers, and the debut of a lifetime. Its star’s next ambition? To be in movies without becoming famousDominic Sessa wasn’t thinking about the mov...
Focus / Culture - 3 months ago
The Golden Globe-winning star of The Holdovers on sparring with comedy greats, switching from opera to acting, and cooking as therapyA graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Philadelphia-born actor Da’Vine Joy Randolph was nominated for a Tony award f...