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TV by Wenlei Ma   Most of us have probably spent more time watching TV this year than usual, confined to our homes for weeks (if not months). Happily, there has been many amazing stories played out on the small screen as we turned to tales of hope, existential epiphany, endurance and hilarity to get us through our never-ending days. And if you missed any of these must-watch shows of the year, the summer break is the perfect time to catch up. WHAT WE DO ...

20December 2020 Parasite won the Best Picture Oscar. Want to feel sad? Only nine months ago,  Parasite broke the UK’s box office record for a non-English language film. Believe it or not, in early March, there was reason to be optimistic about the future of cinema. Now, in December, the theatrical experience is in trouble, and HBO Max are planning to upload  The Matrix 4 online as if they were Hot Ones videos. If the AT&T-owned streaming service could remove “cinema” from the diction...

The New York Film Critics Circle assembled remotely to determine this years top film honorees, which were announced on Friday. And Chadwick Boseman was posthumously named Best Supporting Actor for his role in Spike Lees Da 5 Bloods, which premiered via Netflix in June. The late actor tragically passed away on August 28 at the age of 43, following a private years-long battle with colon cancer. Honored: Chadwick Boseman was posthumously named Best Supporting Actor for his role in Spike Lees ...

19 December 2020 Share with: The 43-year-old actor tragically passed away in August following a secret four-year battle with colon cancer, and Friday nights (18.12.20) ceremony saw the late star receive the award for his role as Stormin’ Norman in the war drama Da 5 Bloods. His co-star, Delroy Lindo, also won the Best Actor prize. Spike Lee revealed after his death that he had no idea Chadwick was sick when they were filming Da 5 Bloods. Elsewhere, First Chow was named Best Film, while Best ...

First Cow named 2020′s best film by New York Film Critics The film critics, assembling virtually, gave its top award to First Cow, a delicate tale of friendship and capitalism in mid-1800s Oregon Territory. By: AP | New York | December 19, 2020 10:49:13 am First Cow is a delicate tale of friendship and capitalism in mid-1800s Oregon Territory. (Photo: A24) The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday voted Kelly Reichardt’s Western fable First Cow the b...

Late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman has received a posthumous award from the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC). Boseman won best supporting actor, for his final performance in the August Wilson adaptation  Ma Raineys Black Bottom on  Friday. Boseman died in August from cancer at age 43.  The critics also gave out awards to  Borat Subsequent Movie Film co-star Maria Bakalova for best supporting actress.  The NYFCC voted Kelly Reichardts Western fable  First Cow the best film of...

The costume design throughout “Small Axe,” a collection of five films directed by Steve McQueen that depicts British West Indian life during a certain time, is a mosaic of precision details. Ordinary garments, to the untrained eye are, indeed, brilliant artifacts of West Indian expression. Watch the episodes with the wardrobe in mind, and you’ll notice vibrant, bespoke personal style hiding in the seams. An A-line dress becomes more than a dress after we learn that a young woman made it b...

Call the Midwife (Copyright BBC). This week, Paul steps into Christmas… NEXT WEEK’S TV © BBC / Nealstreet Productions / Laura Radford Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain’s Children (Copyright BBC) In this year of terrible years, the footballer Marcus Rashford has emerged as a profound symbol of decency and compassion. He’s devoted himself to raising awareness of child poverty in Britain, to such an extent that he basically shamed the government into announcing a £400 million winter grant...

Rolling Stone Menu ‘It’s About a Certain Kind of Blackness’: Steve McQueen on the Making of ‘Small Axe’ The director discusses his five-film opus tracing the experience of West Indian immigrants and their families in late-Sixties through early-Eighties London By Small Axe concludes with Friday’s release of Education, the story of a boy named Kingsley (Kenyah Sandy), whose difficulty with reading has him reassigned to a school for the “educationally subnormal” — a....

Tiger King Netflix Netflix has particularly good form when it comes to the true crime documentary, so fans of Making a Murderer lapped up this strange and often tragic tale. The story of small-time zookeeper Joe Exotic, jailed for his role in a murder-for-hire plot against his professional rival Carole Baskin, lays bare the frankly bizarre world of big-cat conservationism in the US. There are three-way marriages, drugs and jaw-dropping personality cults galore here. Oh, and plenty of big cats...