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(L to R) Jamie Dornan as "Pa", Ciarán Hinds as "Pop", Jude Hill as "Buddy", and Judi Dench as "Granny" in director Kenneth Branagh's BELFAST, a Focus Features release. Credit : Rob Youngson / Focus Features

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (December)

Erik Anderson December 24, 2021

A canceled Golden Globes, a postponed Critics’ Choice ceremony. Is it even really awards season yet? Of course it is. We have dozens of critics... Read More

Interview: Editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle (‘Belfast’) on her collaboration with Kenneth Branagh and creating under COVID

Jackson Vickery November 8, 2021

Very few films this year will spark as much joy as Sir Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast. A true love letter to Branagh’s hometown took a village... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (October)

Erik Anderson October 29, 2021

After Paweł Pawlikowski (2018’s Cold War) and Thomas Vinterberg (2020’s Another Round) made the cut in the best director category it seems like we’re all... Read More

‘Belfast’ review: With his most personal film, Kenneth Branagh delivers an entertaining, moving meditation on family and the power of love [Grade: A]

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‘Belfast’ review: With his most personal film, Kenneth Branagh delivers an entertaining, moving meditation on family and the power of love [Grade: A]

Ryan McQuade October 20, 2021

Right before his latest film screened in front of a packed audience at the Middleburg Film Festival, writer-director Kenneth Branagh explained that Belfast was a... Read More

24th SCAD Savannah Film Festival announces lineup, honorees include Kenneth Branagh, Aunjanue Ellis, Clifton Collins, Jr.

Erik Anderson October 1, 2021

2021 honorees include Kenneth Branagh, Adrien Brody, Clifton Collins, Jr., Aunjanue Ellis, Harry Gregson-Williams, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Mike Mills, Ruth Negga, Dylan... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (September)

Erik Anderson September 27, 2021

It took a bit of time but the game of chicken between Warner Bros and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) has a winner and... Read More

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TIFF Review: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ masterfully captures the joys and agony of what truly makes a home [Grade: A-]

Mina Takla September 15, 2021

Undoubtedly his most personal film to date, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a quietly moving and universally resonating film about the roots that connect us, the... Read More

Focus Features sets November 2021 release for Kenneth Branagh’s coming of age story ‘Belfast’

Erik Anderson March 17, 2021

Focus Features will release Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast on Friday, November 12, 2021 in theaters domestically. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Belfast is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss... Read More

Focus Features picks up Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ with Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe

Erik Anderson December 16, 2020

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Branagh, Belfast is the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of... Read More

Gal Gadot as Linnet Ridgeway, Emma Mackey as Jacqueline De Bellefort and Armie Hammer as Simon Doyle in 20th Century Studios’ DEATH ON THE NILE, a mystery-thriller directed by Kenneth Branagh based on Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel. Photo by Rob Youngson. © 2020 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Trailer: The star-studded ‘Death on the Nile’ has Hercule Poirot looking for the policy of truth

Erik Anderson August 19, 2020

Murder was just the beginning. The first trailer and teaser poster from Twentieth Century Studios’ daring mystery-thriller Death on the Nile are here. This follow... Read More