BAFTAs 2019 Best Film winner: What won the biggest prize? Netflix movie Roma is victorious

Alfonso Cuarón is now comfortably on course for big Oscars success later this month after his acclaimed film Roma won Best Film at last night’s BAFTAs. Cuarón also scooped Best Director, beating Yorgos Lanthimos, Spike Lee, Bradley Cooper and Paweł Pawlikowski. In Best Film, it defeated BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, Green Book and A Star Is […]

The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Roma,’ ‘A Simple Favor’

One of the most talked-about movies of the year — and a big swing for awards season respectability — landed on Netflix Friday, so we’re recommending it again, along with a goofy but enjoyable early-fall thriller that’s new on disc. And the catalogue titles this week are rich and varied, from Criterion classics to Spielberg’s […]

/Filmcast ep. 496 – Roma and The Favourite (GUEST: Britt Hayes)

David gets feedback from last week’s episode with Joseph Kahn, director of Bodied, and Jeff resumes his Limerick ways. The cast plus Britt talk about the power of Roma by Alfonso Cuarón, and cover the outfits and rabbits of The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos. Check out Britt Hayes’ piece on the fact and fiction of […]

Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ Is a Powerful, Empathetic Memory Play

In the on-screen text that opens Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, we’re told that the Spanish spoken through most of the movie is subtitled in English, but the occasional bracketed subtitles are to indicate characters speaking in the localized Mixtec dialect; observant viewers will notice, fairly quickly, that said dialect is primarily spoken by the domestic workers […]

Daily Podcast: John Lasseter, Paramount Ranch, A Star is Born, Roma, Star Wars, Toy Story 4, Detective Pikachu.

On the November 13, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and senior writer Ben Pearson to talk about the latest film and tv news, including John Lasseter, Paramount Ranch, A Star is Born, Interrogation, Roma, The Mandalorian, Toy Story 4 and Detective Pikachu. You […]

‘Roma’ Review: Alfonso Cuarón Has Made a Masterpiece of Humanity and Empathy [TIFF]

Alfonso Cuarón‘s Roma is a singular achievement – a visually resplendent tale of empathy, focusing on a housekeeper in 1970s Mexico, and the family she works and lives with. “The movies are like a machine that generates empathy,” wrote Roger Ebert, and that description is more than apt for Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s new masterpiece. The most personal film […]

Daily Podcast: Villains Who Should Get Movies, Most Anticipated Movies, Roma, Netflix, Mindhunter, Sinemia

On the August 30, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to answer a couple letters in the Mail Bag and talk about the latest film and tv news, including the most anticipated movies of Fall 2018, Roma early buzz, Netflix going […]

Netflix releases its first trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘ROMA’

We finally have our first look at Alfonso Cuarón’s first Netflix feature and his first film after Gravity back in 2014. The streaming platform has released a trailer for the black-and-white flick ROMA, which was inspired by Cuarón’s childhood (specifically the women who shaped it) back in the ’70s. ROMA tells the story of a […]

Alisson to Liverpool: Reds agree £66.8m fee with Roma, medical planned, Chelsea yet to bid

Jurgen Klopp wants to install the Brazil international as his new No 1 after Loris Karius and Simon Mignolet failed to convince in the role. And The Times report Liverpool chiefs are following his wishes by pushing ahead with a move to take Alisson to Anfield. Liverpool are said to be close to sealing the world-record […]

The two-word slogan powering Roma in CL mission impossible

ROMA already erased a three-goal deficit once in this season’s Champions League. The Giallorossi believe they can do it again against Liverpool on Wednesday. “We’ve already shown we’re capable of coming back and we should have the belief that we can do it again,” Roma coach Eusebio Di Francesco said. Liverpool won the first leg […]