A selection of awards season favourites is coming to a cinema near you in February.
Oscar nominee Margot Robbie (Bombshell) reprises her role of Harley Quinn in the superhero film ‘Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)’ from the 2016 film ‘Suicide Squad’, for which she won the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie.
Due for release on 7 February 2020, the film is the eighth instalment in the DC Extended Universe and features Ewan McGregor (Doctor Sleep) alongside Robbie, who also co-produces.
Also released on 7 February 2020 is the fantasy adventure ‘Dolittle’ with Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes) as Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle as well as Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) and Michael Sheen (Far from the Madding Crowd) in other live action roles. Oscar winners Emma Thompson (Late Night), Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody), Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) and Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) feature in a high profile voice cast giving life to the animals.
Another adventure film will be distributed on 21 February 2020. Oscar nominee Harrison Ford takes the leading role in ‘The Call of the Wind’, a remake of the 1935 film of the same name, itself based on the 1903 novel by Jack London.
Nominated for two Satellite Awards, ‘Dark Waters’ is released on 28 February 2020 with Oscar nominees Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight) and Mare Winningham (Georgia) and Oscar winners Anne Hathaway (Ocean’s 8) and Tim Robbins (Mystic River).
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
