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After #MeToo 'Weinstein was the industry. I was just another actress': shaking up film and TV

The women and men changing their industry

Published: 27 Jan 2018

TV review The Sweet Makers: A Tudor Treat review – not just a sugary concoction

This was familar but pleasurable fare as modern-day confectioners were given the task of making sweets the 16th-century way. Plus: Amma Asante on The South Bank Show

Published: 20 Jul 2017

Observer critics' review of 2016 Mark Kermode: best films of 2016

A journey into blindness, strange magic from Japan, and an Iranian spine-tingler are among the year’s must-sees

Published: 4 Dec 2016

The best original photographs from the Observer Original Observer photography: October 2016

Reportage from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign; the dispossessed of Johannesburg; and stars of stage and screen – all feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer this month

Gallery

Published: 29 Oct 2016
David Oyelowo: 'People of colour have been expunged from British history'

Oyelowo, star of Selma and A United Kingdom, says he is ‘hellbent’ on explaining black history through period movies to help Britain understand itself

Published: 6 Oct 2016
Amma Asante on A United Kingdom: 'People were comforted a woman of colour was telling this story'

British director and its star David Oyelowo talked about the importance of making the film in Botswana, multiculturalism and film’s continuing lack of diversity

Published: 5 Oct 2016
Amma Asante: ‘I’m here to disrupt expectations’

As her movie A United Kingdom opens the London film festival, the British director talks about why the industry needs to change

Published: 2 Oct 2016

Amma Asante: film industry chiefs 'don't trust female directors'

Director of A United Kingdom says that women are pigeonholed into making ‘certain types of movies’ due to ‘misguided distrust’ from executives

Published: 26 Sep 2016
Awards, high-profile stars, box-office hits: black cinema enters a new era

With the work of black artists at the heart of this year’s London film festival, the organisers are celebrating a success that’s long overdue

Published: 25 Sep 2016
David Oyelowo in Toronto: 'It's absolutely inexcusable female directors are marginalised'

The actor, who has two films directed by women premiering at Tiff, also attacks British period films for not featuring black characters and says he will always ‘be an advocate for diversity’

Published: 10 Sep 2016
4 out of 5 stars.

First look review A United Kingdom review: Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romance
4 out of 5 stars.

A strange, shameful chapter of history is dusted off by Amma Assante to make this earnestly stirring Empire drama

Published: 9 Sep 2016

Trailer park A United Kingdom trailer: interracial marriage causes outrage in true story – video

David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star as real-life couple Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, who caused an international outcry when they married in 1948

2:24

Published: 25 Aug 2016

London film festival to open with A United Kingdom

Amma Asante follows Belle with period tale of interracial relationship starring Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo

Published: 21 Jun 2016

Amma Asante is doing British film proud

Letters: We don’t need ‘a Jeff Nichols of our own’ to tell the stories of race and racism in Britain on film. We have Amma Asante, director of Belle and A United Kingdom

Published: 17 May 2016

Published: 17 May 2016

#HollywoodSoWhite: diversity report gives damning picture of US film industry

Ethnic minorities and LGBT community continue suffer at the hands of ‘inclusion crisis’; meanwhile only 3% of film directors are women, with a third of female characters shown with ‘partial or full nudity’

Published: 22 Feb 2016

Geena Davis: ‘After Thelma & Louise, people said things would improve for women in film. They didn’t’

Having built a career out of playing strong women, the Hollywood star is taking on the sexist culture found at every level of the film industry

Published: 27 Sep 2015

David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike set for racially charged African drama

Oyelowo will play Seretse Khama, a royal exiled from Bechuanaland by the British in 1951 after he controversially married a white English office clerk

Published: 27 May 2015

Heroes, villains and victories – the women who shaped 2014

Bim Adewunmi: 2014 was the year we discussed street harassment and made feminist declarations. But a lot else happened this year. Here is an inexhaustive list of heroes, villains and victories - big and small

Published: 22 Dec 2014

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