Just one more month to go and farewell to hibernation. At least it seems so. Despite all kinds of winter fun and holidays, every cell of your body stalls resisting to any flick or jerk unnecessary to your direct survival. But try to tame your mind and muscles by a simple film session featuring an action movie or thriller. January has brought a number of fine pieces to the cinema theatres. So, if you still haven't seen any of the following, be our guest: AMERICAN HANGMAN Plot Synopsis: A thriller built around a relentlessly ticking clock and a rapidly approaching deadline and verdict. A kidnapping, broadcast live on social media, turns into the trial of a judge who presided over a botched cri
So here's another clue that might serve as another realistic prediction to the upcoming Academy Awards - yesterday Screen Actors Guild Awards announced the winners of the outstanding motion picture and television performances of 2018. According to SAG press release, honored with individual awards were Mahershala Ali, Emily Blunt, Rami Malek and Glenn Close for performances in motion pictures, and Patricia Arquette, Jason Bateman, Rachel Brosnahan, Darren Criss, Sandra Oh and Tony Shalhoub for performances in television. The Actor® for a motion picture cast performance went to Black Panther, while the Actors® for television drama and comedy ensemble performances went to This Is Us and The Mar
Raise up your hands who's missing Harry Hole and his first-class though often drunk investigations of the cruelest and nastiest crimes in Oslo? We've got good news as in summer 2019 Jo Nesbo will return with the twelfth book in the detective Harry Hole series called Knife. The fans of Jo Nesbo have met the troubled detective in The Thirst in 2017 for the last time, as the writer transferred to modernizing Macbeth, a well-known Shakespearean drama, published in spring 2018. In Knife, Harry Hole wakes up with a ferocious hangover, his hands and clothes covered in blood. Not only is Harry about to come face to face with an old, deadly foe, but with his darkest personal challenge yet. But till y
The 91st Academy Awards reached the final straight after today's announcement of all nominees. It will take only a month to the Oscar Award ceremony on February 24 to find out the winners. The broadcast of the nominees revealed two movies - the leaders of Oscar nominations: The Favourite by the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos well-known for his The Killing of A Sacred Dear, The Lobster and Dogtooth and Roma by the Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón whose Gravity brought him 7 Academy Awards in 2013. They both received ten nominations each including Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Actress, Best Actress in A Supporting Role and others. What's left is to wait and see, which of those two will d
Have you succeeded to take a glimpse at the Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse? Thanks God, this blood red moon won't appear before us till 2029 again and won't twist our minds causing a sleepless night and an overemotional morning for the following decade. Very dramatic but not so much as the new January drama movies that mark the beginning of a new cinema year in a turmoil of awards honoring the last year's best. STATE LIKE SLEEP Plot Synopsis: One year after her husband's (Michiel Huisman) untimely death, a young widow (Katherine Waterston) receives an unsettling phone call that forces her to revisit the past. ANTHEM OF A TEENAGE PROPHET Plot Synopsis: Based on the award-winning novel, a teena
All these film awards that start popping one by one from the beginning of the year make you feel awkwardly ignorant. So you try to catch up and fill in your cinematographic gaps with every title in each nomination list just to be competent to enter a meaningless discussion on social media or in a coffee corner at your office, which film, actor, actress or director snatches an Oscar this year. Sorry, no time for books when you've still got a number of film titles on your watching list. That is the competition: to read or to watch. Have you been stuck in making this tough choice? Looking for a compromise is often not an option, as your spare time does not signal for multiple available slots. T
BAFTA has announced the nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2019. There's one more indicator for Oscars that considerably differs from Golden Globes, once again demonstrating the difference between Brits and the Jury from across the Atlantic Ocean. The Favourite is nominated in 12 categories. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born each have seven nominations; Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, and Cold War and Green Book have four each. Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Mary Poppins Returns, Mary Queen of Scots and Stan & Ollie have three nominations each. The Favourite is nominated for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Pro
The first major cinematographic event of this year just announced its winners. The 76th Golden Globe Awards were handed to the ones who deserved them most according to HFPA. Probably no surprise that Bohemian Rhapsody and Rami Malek turned to be the best, though Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper should be disappointed their directing and acting efforts have been honored only in terms of the Best Original Song. Drama category was dominated by Bohemian Rhapsody, as long before the ceremony those who have seen the movie were absolutely sure that if Rami Malek didn't receive the Best Actor Award this year, so who else could? On the contrary, in the Best Actress - Drama category the nominees were real
