Best Supporting Actress Oscars Predictions (October)
Welcome to the supporting actress race for 2024. With the fall film festival season now in the distance and a few potential contenders still to…
Best Supporting Actor Oscars Predictions (October)
Welcome to the supporting actor race for 2024. With the fall film festival season now in the distance and a few potential contenders still to…
Best Adapted and Original Screenplay Oscars Predictions (October)
Welcome to the screenwriting race for 2024. With the fall film festival season now in the distance and a few potential contenders still to debut…
London Film Festival Review: Maria (Pablo Larraín)
A whole life in just a few days, and what a life! Pablo Larraín’s trilogy-of-sorts about iconic women of the 20th Century concludes with his…
London Film Festival Review: Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
We’re all downsizing these days. Forget the Roaring ‘20s – these are the Receding ‘20s. Costs are going up, people are staying in, and the…
London Film Festival Review: Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
For all the lush scenery and exotic vistas with which it meets the eye, Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour is a movie defined as much by…
Interview: Screenwriter, Ella Valentine Discusses Her New Film, Revolution X
Writer and Screenwriter, Ella Valentine discusses her new film, Revolution X and her screenwriting journey so far. From her beginnings to her new film, Revolution X, which is streaming on Apple TV in North America right now. Ella’s new magazine, Horror Valentine’s is dedicated for women in Thriller and Horror.
Makeovers: Analysing the Stages of the ‘Makeover Scene’ in Hollywood Rom-Com Movies
An analysis on the makeover scenes in Hollywood Romantic-Comedy movies. From ’90s classics like Pretty Woman to modern makeovers. Movies in this article include Moonstruck, Clueless, Miss Congeniality, The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada and The House Bunny. The different stages analysed include hairstyles, makeup, manners and new clothes.
London Film Festival Review: Blitz (Steve McQueen)
The cinema of suffering need not necessarily be a traumatic experience. In the 16 years since his first feature, Hunger, Steve McQueen has proved himself…
London Film Festival Review: Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
Subjectivity can be a hard thing to depict in cinema. Even in the most immersive, captivating movies, there exists the perpetual sense that we, the…
London Film Festival Review: Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot)
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” A Kierkegaard quote may strike one as an unusual jumping-off point for an…
97th Academy Awards Predictions Hub
Welcome to Filmotomy’s predictions hub for the 97th Academy Awards. It’s here you’ll find the latest predictions from Awards Editor Doug Jamieson. Click the links…
‘Aftersun’ (2022), ‘How to Have Sex’ (2023) and the Dreams and Nightmares of the British Package Holiday
British tourists have always had a reputation. Since the days of Byron, Shelley and Keats in Geneva and Italy and the Grand Tour which wealthy…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
Autumn in its full glory is celebrated to the fullest in Petite Maman. It is a charming, delightful film from renowned French filmmaker Céline Sciamma…