Dispatches from the LFF: the tired and emotional edition
Laura Morgan finds the London Film Festival is doing funny things to her head. Welcome to the jetlagged, tearstained, running-on-fumes edge of the 58th BFI London Film Festival. Yes, we’re barely...
View ArticleA Letter From America
If you can’t get enough of MostlyFilm’s festival coverage, you’re in luck: today, Laura Morgan reports from two of the USA’s most mindbending genre film festivals. Have you ever discovered two giant...
View ArticleThen I Saw Your Smile
Laura Morgan is Falling for you. Florence Pugh and Maisie Williams as Abbie and Lydia I wrote briefly about The Falling after seeing it at last year’s London Film Festival, in a swirl of emotion,...
View ArticleBilly Elliot On Ice
Laura Morgan reviews Eddie The Eagle, a biopic as entertainingly inconsequential as its subject. Do you remember Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards? The British love an underdog, so the cliche goes, and Eddie...
View ArticleDouble Trouble
Following the news that Natalie Portman will be playing the former first lady in Jackie, Laura Morgan celebrates the good, the bad and the ugly of celebrity casting. Jackie? Oh. There are all sorts of...
View ArticleY Tu, Ma Ma?
Laura Morgan is both dazzled and underwhelmed by Penelope Cruz’s latest film. I like colours in films. One of the increasingly long list of reasons I don’t watch Tim Burton films any more is that I am...
View ArticleWishing You’d Done It All Differently
Attention! Laura Morgan‘s musings on growing old via the medium of T2 Trainspotting will almost certainly contain spoilers A few years ago, MostlyFilm ran a piece in which a bunch of us listed films...
View ArticleYou’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Film Is About You
Ahead of this weekend’s Oscars, Laura Morgan laments a lack of recognition for Hugh Grant and celebrates some of his fellow secret stars of other people’s films. Obviously it’s the law that if Meryl...
View ArticleHere’s To The Fools Who Dream: MostlyFilm’s Oscars Predictions
Whet your appetite for tomorrow evening with our Oscars predictions, guaranteed* to net you a win at the bookie’s, brought to you by seasoned Oscars host Laura Morgan, ably assisted by this year’s Best...
View ArticleVictory At All Costs: MostlyFilm’s Oscar Predictions
As the seatfillers, seamsters and speechwriters prepare for their busiest night of the year, Laura Morgan brings you some predictions for the ninetieth Academy Awards. A rare shot of Frances McDormand...
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