Anthony Carew, Journalist

Given the continual crossover from Sundance Darling to Plucky Oscar Contender, it's no surprise there's an Oscar-bait quality to the pics that triumph in the movie-biz-orgy-that-Bobby-Redford-built; the grand gong usually going to a dubious picture straining for forced profundity way beyond its station.

"Lana Del Rey is a retired singer, now. She’s like Cher in the ’90s. You know what I mean? She’s thought of as a superstar, she has her own line of handbags, she spends more time going to premieres than performing gigs."

“There was very little information about her, or how she possibly could’ve been left sitting there for three years. Immediately I wanted to make a story about who this woman was, and her legacy; to give her life meaning, somehow.”

"Places that are in sync with nature, in harmony with nature, those are increasingly devalued by modern society, and are not being protected; in some ways, they’re being actively assaulted."

Anthony Carew gets real with the lineup for this year’s Reel Anime film festival.

Monsieur Lazhar is an excellent example of a usually-lamentable genre: the inspirational teacher movie.

“The reason I didn’t, like, blow my brains out, is that I was always confident one of the films was about to happen next month. You always have a film around the corner.”

“I can’t work out what I was expecting when we made the first thing, but it certainly wasn’t this... It came as a shock to everyone. It would’ve been really unrealistic of me – or of any of us – to expect anything on the scale of this.”

“I was a big NFL fan growing up... but I’m a workaholic and never allowed myself to get caught up in fantasy sports. Until I started acting in The League. Now, we have our own league just for the people in the show. And I’m fucked. Totally addicted.”

“The event with the Batman thing was so crazy that the media actually didn’t do their usual routine: they didn’t point the finger at video games and Marilyn Manson. People were just scratching their heads; it was just so hard to believe.”

Our resident film guru Anthony Carew casts his gaze over the upcoming Russian Film Festival.

Moonrise Kingdom easily eclipses The Royal Tenenbaums as Wes Anderson's magnum opus.