The biggest night in show business is back a bit later than usual this year and the 94th Academy Awards will have a phenomenal array of stars and celebrities. Along with the nominated stars such as Will Smith, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench, numerous other stars will also be present with Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Samuel L. Jackson all expected to be in attendance at this year’s ceremony. The hosting duties this year will be shared between three female comedians: Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina H

BBC’s new comedy-drama series Cheaters, which has enthralled viewers and critics in its will-they-won’t-they relationships throughout each of the series’ 10 minute episodes, is aired its final two episodes on BBC One this week. The 18-part series followed Josh and Fola (Josh McGuire and Susan Wokoma) after their one-night romantic affair suddenly spirals out of control after realising they live opposite the street from each other. The series, which is also available on iPlayer, has left the sho

By Harri Knight-Davis, Third year, Film and Television Steven Spielberg certainly knows his way around the genres, whether it be sci-fi and fantasy, action-adventure, historical dramas or children’s films. And despite a few hiccups along the way he has excelled in each genre he has tried his hand in. The genre that always evaded him was the musical, until now. And it was worth the wait, with Spielberg’s sumptuous update of West Side Story. Spielberg’s West Side Story hews close to the original

Kitsch and camp were two ways to describe the mainstream superhero offerings of the 1990’s, which was dominated by Batman films, such as Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns and Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever and Batman and Robin. These superhero iterations included a dash of Bat-nipples and a sprinkling of Bat-credit cards—a far cry from Christopher Nolan’s seminal and grounded take on the winged-hero with The Dark Knight trilogy.

The world of Possessor (2020), from the outside looking in, seems fairly familiar; vapour from e-cigarettes fills the air and powerful corporations treat workers horrendously and spy on you though the cameras in your home. There is nothing particularly shocking about it. However, writer and director Brandon Cronenberg escorts us into this world through a, seemingly secret, operation allowing a willing participant to enter someone else's body and mind in order to assassinate the intended target

Amidst a global pandemic, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was the only blockbuster of calibre to be released it; was announced to be the film to save cinemas. It has currently made $332 millionworldwide, whether that is a success or failure is neither here nor there. The fact remains that a new Christopher Nolan film, not a Superhero film or a Disney live action remake, was the film to bring audiences back to the cinema. Christopher Nolan is amongst the few film directors who have the power to entice

Rocks’ (2019) production began with the casting of the school girls who would be the focus of this tender coming-of-age film in modern London. The process from then on was deeply collaborative; adapting the script constantly on set and all the young leads ad-libbing the dialogue. The film was also shot with a documentary feel and it clearly owes a debt to the films of the French New Wave, specifically Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959). All this gives Rocks an authenticity and edge over A

By Harri Knight-Davis, First Year, Film and Television Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) made over fifty films in a career spanning six decades starting in 1925 and ending in 1976. He began his life in film as a title maker for silent films, becoming a set designer, then a script-writer and an assistant director until he finally directed his first feature film The Pleasure Garden (1925). He would go on to make films which caught the attention of Hollywood, with pictu