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2 months ago | 
indieentertainmentmedia.com | Rehna Azim |Nicole Muj
by Rehna AzimWhat could entice the Newport Beach Film Festival team away from the balmy days, blue seas and fresh shrimp-filled restaurants of California to rain sodden London in the cold of a February evening? Well, the breadth and depth of British film talent, for a start.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Rehna Azim
1. Some things are an art form. For example:a. How to overshadow one of the biggest nights in Hollywood when you’re not going to win Best Actress – wear a stunning gown in a gorgeous colour and strategically splay your fingers across the waist of said gown to display what looks suspiciously like an engagement ring – step forward Zendaya. b.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Rehna Azim
The Golden Globes nominations dropped in early December. The Critics Choice Awards noms dropped shortly after, as did those for the Australian Academy Awards. Every city with a cinema seems to have announced its critics circle nominations/winners, with BIFA already holding its ceremony. Yes, we are at the start of Awards season with the major ceremonies about to begin this weekend with the Globes.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Rehna Azim
Released: 27 September 2024Director: Jon WattsStarring: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Amy Ryan, Austin AbramsA high profile DA, Margaret (Amy Ryan) invites a young man, she has just met, to her suite in a top end hotel. During what is meant to be an evening of no ties fun, the exuberant young man falls (literally) foul of an acrobatic jump and may have been killed. A panicked Margaret calls a confidential number she has been given for just such events.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Rehna Azim
Released: TBC (UK)Director: Kevin MacDonaldA Republican presidential candidate who the mainstream media wants to bring down but the public turn out in their thousands to see him at rallies. Race relations dominating the public discourse. Riots. People escaping reality with rampant consumerism and music. No, not a comment on today’s news cycle but the backdrop for the only full length live concert John Lennon ever performed, after the breakup of the Beatles.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Rehna Azim
Release: 10 January 2025 (UK)Director: Halina ReijnStarring: Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Harris DickinsonNicole Kidman is one of the best actresses working today. She is also one of the most beautiful. Tall, statuesque and stylish, her beauty harks back to the Hollywood goddesses of yesteryear. She was perfect as the intoxicating Satine in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge. But she has never had the sultry presence of a contemporary like, say, Angelina Jolie.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Rehna Azim
Released: TBC (UK)/Venice Film FestivalDirector: Pablo LarrainStarring: Angelina Jolie, Kodi Smit-McPheeEven the kids knew of Elvis and Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. So it was no surprise, that Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis movie and the Rami Malek-led Bohemian Rhapsody were huge hits, as audiences went to see them multiple times. The nostalgia factor was high for both films, with the hype of its central performances adding a ‘must see’ element.
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May 28, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Rehna Azim
Elizabeth: The Lost Tapes – 5/5“The press no longer wanted glamour. They wanted the destruction of glamour.”An astute observation in this fascinating look at the life of one of cinemas’s greatest icons and probably the most beautiful woman to ever grace the silver screen, Elizabeth Taylor. It’s perhaps hard for us now to understand exactly how famous Elizabeth Taylor was in the 1960s and ’70s.
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May 22, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Rehna Azim
Released: 2024 (Cannes)Director: Federico LuisCast: Lorenzo Ferro, Pehuen Pedre, Kiara Supini, Laura NevoleA group of teenagers forming fast friendships, taking foolish physical risks, falling in love, fumbling sexual encounters, finding themselves, disappointing parents, Simon of the Mountain is a coming of age movie. Except that the teenagers here have varying degrees of disability and attend a special school. Save for one.
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May 17, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Rehna Azim
Released: 24 May 2024Director: George MillerStarring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris HemsworthIs there a more evocatively named female film character than Imperator Furiosa? You almost need nothing more to tell you that this is a woman with a bad-ass attitude, one hell of a backstory, a raging grievance, the ruthless mettle to pull off revenge, and a turbo charged, adrenaline packed determination to right wrongs. A film led by her, therefore, cannot let her down.
