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Highlights from MANIFF 2018

Highlights from MANIFF 2018

Top picks from this years Manchester International Film Festival

Animated Shorts Oscar Nominees

Animated Shorts Oscar Nominees

Eloise Wright and James Gill assess the nominations for the Best Animated Short Oscar

In conversation with Andrey Zvyagintsev

In conversation with Andrey Zvyagintsev

Andrey talks about where his love of film began and his views on how it is to be an artist in Russia, and jokes about his upcoming comedy about Manchester United

Review: Pitch Perfect 3

Review: Pitch Perfect 3

The third in the “acapella” series seems like a fitting conclusion, but too often seems a little off-key

Double-up feature: Jewish Film Festival 2017

A snippet of what was on at the Jewish Film Festival this year

Review: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Director Paul McGuilian measures the balance between the serious, the comedic, and the emotional in this tender love story defying stigma and taboo

BFI London Film Festival – Highlights

Picks from the 61st annual festival include a dark psychological thriller, an exploration of manhood in South Africa, and Harry Dean Stanton’s final performance

BFI London Film Festival Highlight: ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’

Yorgos Lanthimos brings a madcap darkness which just might surpass the bleak meditations on life and hetero-normative couples of ‘The Lobster’

Review: The Child in Time

Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly MacDonald go on separate journeys of grief as they come to terms with the disappearance of their daughter Kate in BBC1’s drama The Child in Time

Review: Patti Cake$

8 Mile meets Hairspray in this unashamed ode to rap

Review: Victoria and Abdul

Even Dame Judi can’t save this Royalist fantasy of exotic servant-hood

Preview: This Week at HOME

Our top three picks for films showing at HOME in the upcoming week

Meet the new film editors

The new film editors welcome you to their section and encourage everyone to get involved

Bollywood versus Indian independent cinema

Most people think of Bollywood when they hear Indian cinema, but what is behind this massive film industry and why are Indian Independent films better at portraying Indian culture?

Feature: Should this really be DiCaprio’s year?

Almost every Oscar prognosticator is saying that Leonardo DiCaprio winning an Oscar this year is a near-sure thing—but, the question is, does he deserve it?

Feature: The #OscarsSoWhite controversy

With all of 20 Best Actor nominees at the Oscars being White for a second year running, many are crying out for Hollywood to address its apparent lack of diversity—but where does the root of the problem lie?

Feature: Should we boycott Marvel?

With increasing numbers of people criticising the quality of the films, are the superhero movies by Marvel worth or time?

Feature: Disney’s live-action remakes

With an increasing number of classic Disney films being opted for a live-action remake, we consider whether or not we should anticipate or dread their future

Feature: And the next Bond should be…

With speculation flying high that Spectre will be Daniel Craig’s last outing as 007, we give our picks here as to who should star as the next James Bond

Feature: Hollywood’s relationship with hippies

Not even Hollywood escaped the 1960s counterculture of hippies and psychedelia, but is it remembered fondly or critically by today’s filmmakers?