Chiwetel Ejiofor

The 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® announces this year’s Official Competition Jury. President of the Official Competition jury is three-time BAFTA winner and LFF Best Film (2013) prize winner Pawel…

Well, it's happened at last. Director Steve McQueen has impressed me, and in such a way that, cinematically, shuts me up good and proper. Of course, I've only seen one other movie that he's directed (Shame) but the praise heaped upon that…

One day in the in the mid-1800’s, a musician by the name of Solomon Northrup, a free-born African American living in New York was abducted while traveling, and transported into the Antebellum South where he was drugged and sold into…

The ordeal of the ancestors 12 Years a Slave, adapted from the true account by Soloman Northrup, a free black man resident in New York who was kidnapped into slavery from 1841 to 1853 in the South, is British artist Steve McQueen's third…

Following on from the awful true story of Philomena Lee, London Film Festival brings another horrendous true story based on the plight of a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery. 12 Years A Slave is a hard film to watch and one of the…

Richard Curtis is, you could easily say, quite a giant figure in the modern British film and entertainment industry. His comic writing has provided audiences with a number of classic moments and when he created Four Weddings & A Funeral…

There are some movies that you respond so well to that they get under your skin and seem almost alive to you. You remember every detail of the plot, every visual cue, every aspect of the characters, as if they were old friends. There are a…