Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Frances all the way!

Frances McDormand's thumping central performance is a masterclass in how to sock the screen with flawless outrage, notes Sukanya Verma. The truth is rarely pure and never simple, professed Oscar......

What made the Oscars so DIFFERENT

Despite the smaller scale of the event, the mood at the ceremony was cheerful, notes Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE: A crew member prepares a backdrop for the red carpet at Union Station in Los Angeles.......

Adarsh Gourav loses BAFTA to Anthony Hopkins

Nomadland dominates BAFTAs 2021 with four wins. IMAGE: Frances McDormand in Nomadland. Director Chloe Zhao's meditative drama Nomadland emerged as the top winner at the BAFTA Film Awards 2021 by......

When wives double up as muses for filmmaker hubbies

Filmmakers, in the search for the ideal muse, often end up marrying their heroines. As Joel Coen and Tim Burton have repeatedly shown with Frances McDormand and Helena Bonham Carter respectively,......