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Bill Nighy never watches any of his films because he can’t bear to see himself on screen, once saying “all my fears about my inadequacies are confirmed when I watch myself”.

Till A Profoundly Emotional Film

One of the biggest surprises when the 2022 Oscar nominations were announced was the omission of Danielle Deadwyler from the Best Actress line-up; Deadwyler, a SAG and BAFTA nominee, was considered a shoo-in. Deadwyler plays Mamie Till Mobley, the mother of 14-year-old Emmett Till who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, and the film follows her relentless pursuit of justice. Till is directed by Chinonye Chukwu (Clemency). An exceptional film, Till — based on true events — is a profoundly emotionally wrenching drama not to be missed.

The Blue Caftan A Visually Beautiful Love Story

With her exploration of mortality and sexuality in a small Moroccan town, writer-director Maryam Touzani takes the premise of a love triangle and imbues it with rare emotional nuance and complexity. When a closeted gay tailor (Saleh Bakri) and his wife (Lubna Azabal) take on a handsome new apprentice (Ayoub Missioui), they find their relationship turned upside down. The Playlist calls The Blue Caftan “...a rich, vibrant ode to love in all its many forms”. The acting and film work is superb, and the story is wonderfully sensitive and poignant.

Living A Tender Film About Human Connection

It’s somewhat hard to believe that it has taken until this year for veteran British actor Bill Nighy (of Love,Actually fame) to receive his first-ever Oscar nomination. Less surprising is that Nighy gives a career-best performance in this period drama by queer filmmaker Oliver Hermanus (Beauty; Moffie), written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro and adapted from the 1952 Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru. Bill Nighy plays a bureaucrat in 1953 London who up-ends his quiet, staid existence when he’s diagnosed with a terminal illness.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOUR AMONG THIEVES A STAR-STUDDED FANTASY WITH A COMIC SPIN

Although long considered the domain of geeks and nerds, the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons has persisted in popular culture for almost 50 years, which means Hollywood has taken its sweet time in adapting this property for the big screen. D&D’s first film outing stars Chris Pine, Hugh Grant, Michelle Rodriguez and Regé-Jean Page (of Bridgerton fame), and sees a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, only for things to go dangerously awry.

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By Dwayne Lennox Follow Dwayne on Twitter @TheLennoXFiles