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Looking back at the Oscars
Working against a cruel deadline imposed by an irrational editor, your favourite film columnist lines up this year’s Oscar contenders – even though the ceremony itself...
Film Review | The Frozen Ground

It’s ironic just how by-the-numbers this based-on-a-true-story serial killer thriller really is.

It’s ironic just how by-the-numbers this...

Malta houses evil scientist in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D episode

Malta’s ‘beautiful tax laws’ attract rogue scientist to our shores in...

Malta’s ‘beautiful tax laws’ attract rogue scientist...

‘Good enough’ should not be good enough

As ‘Malta’s First Epic Movie’ makes its way to cinemas, the peculiar way...

As ‘Malta’s First Epic Movie’ makes its way to...

Film Review | Adormidera

A memorable strangeness seems to power the diction and the actors’ performances: the twanging panoply of Maltese-inflected sounds take you away from the...

A memorable strangeness seems to power the diction and the...

Medieval fantasy film ‘as Maltese as the George Cross’

Director Ray Mizzi and actor Andrei Claude speak to us about Adormidera, a...

Director Ray Mizzi and actor Andrei Claude speak to us...

Film Review | I’m So Excited!

Pedro Almodovar’s visionary talents are played for cheap laughs in this absurdist and often shallow airborne farce.

Pedro Almodovar’s visionary talents are played for cheap...

Trailer Park | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The film event of the Christmas season gets a full-length trailer as The...

The film event of the Christmas season gets a full-length...

Film Review | Kick-Ass 2

It may lack depth and moral fibre, but Jeff Wadlow's sequel to 2010's hyper-violent amateur superhero romp more than makes up for it in dynamism.

It may lack depth and moral fibre, but Jeff Wadlow's sequel...

Film Review | Stuck in Love

Marco Attard opts for this lukewarm rom-com about struggling writers and their angst-ridden progeny in favour of the latest action blockbuster... but then...

Marco Attard opts for this lukewarm rom-com about...

Film Review | Red 2

It's a sequel that does the exact same thing its original did. But what it does is actually quite fun.

It's a sequel that does the exact same thing its original...

Maltese-born actor scores role on Game of Thrones

Joseph Gatt is being touted for the role of a war chief in the popular fantasy...

Joseph Gatt is being touted for the role of a war chief in...

Film Review | The Lone Ranger

Savaged by American critics, this Johnny Depp-starring reinvention of the Wild West hero is actually a fun romp. So much fun in fact, that it’s a shame...

Savaged by American critics, this Johnny Depp-starring...

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Film Review | The Wolverine

Wolverine's last foray into a solo film away from the X-Men didn't go down very well, and though director James Mangold goes in with the best intentions to...

Wolverine's last foray into a solo film away from the X-Men...

The art of asking: crowdfunding and Malta

Could the phenomenon of crowdfunding – already a contested concept on an...

Could the phenomenon of crowdfunding – already a...

Film Review | Pacific Rim

A film about robots punching aliens may be as infantile as they get, but Guillermo del Toro’s latest sci-fi blockbuster is done with an earnest aplomb that...

A film about robots punching aliens may be as infantile as...

Baring the fangs | Vampires in film

Talk on vampires in British cinema at Xara Lodge, Mdina, on August 5.

Talk on vampires in British cinema at Xara Lodge, Mdina, on...

Film Review | Monsters University

It's a shame that the otherwise critic-proof 3D animation studio Pixar decided to give into the franchising bug with this diverting but unnecessary prequel.

It's a shame that the otherwise critic-proof 3D animation...

Film Review | Behind the Candelabra

An intimate and sometimes harrowing look into the private life of showman pianist Liberace, and the relationship that broke him.

An intimate and sometimes harrowing look into the private...