Expert Comment
Tom Hemingway comments on BAFTA nominations
This year’s BAFTA film nominations feature the usual mixture of expected nods and surprising snubs.
Dr Julie Labalzo-Wright comments on the upcoming Golden Globe Awards
Once the known as the awards show where film and television stars partied in a hotel banquet room, the Golden Globes had fallen on hard times in the last few years.
Dr Jane Webb comments on Boohoo's failure to keep to its ethical fashion promises.
Our identities are so entangled with what we wear and how we shop in the Global North and fast fashion feeds this.
Dr Alice Pember on box office success for Barbie and first female director
The phenomenal box office success of Greta Gerwig's big screen deconstruction of ‘Barbie world’ gender norms is by no means an incontrovertible ‘win’ for feminism.
Professor Pietari Kaapa, Professor in Media and Communications at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies discusses Hollywood strikes
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are a historic mobilisation of forces against the undervaluing and undercutting of creativity and labour in the film, TV and streaming industry.