2022: A Year in Film and TV

31 Saturday Dec 2022

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A Year in Films and TV, Agatha Christie, Annie Ernaux, Audrey Diwan, Benicio del Toro, Better Call Saul, Emily, Emily Bronte, Emma Mackey, Frances O'Connor, Happening, Hit the Road, Julia Garner, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, Oscar Isaac, Ozark, Panah Panahi, Paul Schrader, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Bowles, Rhea Seehorn, Rooney Mara, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, See How They Run, The Card Counter, Tom George

My favourite film of 2022 was one of the first I saw. Licorice Pizza is so light and joyful, with newcomers Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman perfectly cast as the goofy young lovers in the San Fernando Valley of 1973. Continue reading →

2015: A Year in Film

14 Monday Dec 2015

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A Most Violent Year, A Year in Films and TV, Amy, Amy Winehouse, By the Sea, Carol, Catch Me Daddy, Doctor Zhivago, Dulcima, Girlfriends, Inherent Vice, Low Down, Macbeth, Mad Men, Marilyn Monroe, Oscar Isaac, Show Me a Hero, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Hateful Eight, The Keeping Room, The Misfits, The Witch, This is England, Wanda, You Made Me Love You

After his great performances in W.E., Inside Llewyn Davis and The Two Faces of January, Oscar Isaac is fast becoming my favourite contemporary actor. He has gone from strength to strength in 2015, with big and small-screen gems set in 1980s New York: A Most Violent Year, about an ambitious businessman trying to stay on the right side of the law; and Show Me a Hero, an HBO mini-series telling the true story of Nick Wasicsko, who became mayor of Yonkers during a bitterly divisive public housing crisis. Continue reading →

Tara Hanks

~ Author of 'The Mmm Girl' and 'Wicked Baby'

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2022: A Year in Film and TV

2015: A Year in Film