Dee Rees on her debut film Pariah: ‘My favourite scene is the dildo scene, honestly!’
The film-maker’s first movie, about a Black lesbian teenager, has made it to the Criterion Collection, a catalogue of canonical films. She discusses her characters and the pleasure of this success
March 2018
Mary J Blige: No more drama?
Mary J or Miguel, Sufjan or Showman: who will win the Oscar for best song?
January 2018
'Ever heard of a woman cameraman?': why female cinematographers get overlooked
Oscar nominations 2018: a cautious, comfort-food list in Trumpian times
'Invisible no longer': women in film on the female directors the Oscars must celebrate
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
The rising star to look out for at the Oscars? That’ll be Netflix…
It’s the alternative Oscars…
Female trouble: how can the Oscars fix the scandal of all-male director lists?
Mary J Blige: 'I went through hell with sexual harassment'
December 2017
Three Billboards leads Screen Actors Guild nominations as The Post is snubbed
Dark comedy-drama picks up four nominations, but there’s no room for Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Paul Thomas-Anderson
Sublime Shape of Water leads the Golden Globes on merit, but the all-male director list is dismaying
Peter Bradshaw
Prestige pictures lead the way, with The Post and Three Billboards also up there – but with no Dee Rees, Kathryn Bigelow or Greta Gerwig, the director nominations look dubious
Top US films 2017
The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: the full list
Top UK films 2017
The 50 top films of 2017 in the UK: the full list
Film blog
The Braddies 2017: Peter Bradshaw nominates his films of the year
November 2017
Mudbound review – thoroughly modern period drama
Uphill battle: can Mudbound change the white face of war films?
Mudbound review – powerful tale set in Jim Crow America has real sinew
Mary J Blige: ‘I lost my gut and my gift. But I got it back’
October 2017
Meet the new hotshots of American film-making
As Dee Rees’s racially charged, Oscar-tipped film Mudbound debuts on Netflix, we speak to the director about challenging the establishment, while below, we profile directors Eliza Hittman, the Safdie brothers and Chloé Zhao
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