Expert Comment
Dr Tom Hemingway comments on the Star Wars franchise
Time has been kind to The Phantom Menace. This week’s 25th anniversary re-release of the 1999 Star Wars film demonstrates how perceptions around a film can change over time.
Tom Hemingway discusses Oscar nominations
The big story from this morning’s Oscar nominations is the dual snub of Barbie’s Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig for Best Actress and Best Director respectively.
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 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.