I, Daniel Blake, starring comedian Dave Johns has been nominated for more British Independent Film Awards than any other film this year.
The acclaimed movie directed by Ken Loach has received seven nominations. Dave Johns has been nominated for Best Actor alongside Max Records for I Am Not a Serial Killer, Michael Fassbender for Trespass Against Us, Shia Labeouf for American Honey and Steve Brandon for My Feral Heart. Johns is also up for Most Promising Newcomer alongside his co-star Hayley Squires.
Principal photography has started on Ghost Stories, the film based on the original Olivier nominated stage production. The film is co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson (writer The League of Gentlemen, Psychobitches) and Andy Nyman (The Commuter, Severance) who co-wrote and directed the original stage production.
You would think that Nigel Farage’s life over the last few months would be ripe for satire. The BBC certainly thinks so, hence this one-off mockumentary about his post-Brexit antics. The trouble is that the UKIP leader’s recent life is actually way beyond satire, making it hard for this programme to get that many more laughs by fictionalising it.
With all the Netflix traffic seeming to go to Black Mirror at the moment it will be a shame if this first TV series for Miranda Sings, Haters Back Off, gets overlooked. It is utterly nuts, but in a good way.
There was a bit of a Facebook hoo-ha about my review of the first instalment of Charlie Brooker's new Netflix series because I said it wasn't funny enough. Maybe the comments had a point. While there were a few warped witticisms in the first tale Nosedive, the next self-contained story, Playtest, is truly the stuff of dystopian nightmares.
Charlie Brooker has done pretty well for himself. His latest series of Black Mirror has been made for Netflix and the first episode of six all simultaneously released is directed by Joe ‘Atonement’ Wright and has all the gloss of a Hollywood production. It’s not laugh-out loud funny. In fact it feels so accurate it is more scary than satirical.
The first image has been released from We're Going on a Bear Hunt, the new animated film set to air on Channel 4 this Christmas; The half hour film will expand the universe of the much-loved Michael Rosen book illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. Olivia Colman (Broadchurch, Peep Show, Fleabag, The Night Manager), Pam Ferris (Matilda, Call the Midwife) and Mark Williams (Harry Potter, The Fast Show, Father Brown) will bring the brand new characters of Mum, Grandma and Dad to life.
Could Richard Ayoade be in the frame to join Paul Hollywood when Channel 4 takes over broadcasting the cookery show?
According to stories in various tabloids the host of Travel Man and star of The IT Crowd is being considered at the channel.
According to reports 200 people walked out of Amy Schumer's gig at the Amalie Arena in Tampa on Sunday night after she called Donald Trump an “orange, sexual-assaulting, fake-college-starting monster.”
When she talked about politics there were boos from some members of the audience. The Tampa Bay Times said that comedian invited a Trump supporter to join her onstage to explain his voting decision. He said it was because he felt safer if the country was in Trump's hands.
This review first appeared in the London Evening Standard here on 5/9/16.
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