Fences review: by Rob Stoakes
UK certification: 12A
The Oscars are a marketing gimmick!
There, we’ve got it out of the way. Everything that you’ve secretly and cynically suspected about the Oscars is horribly correct.
It is a multi-million advertising campaign where the winners are primarily the films that want promoting as decided by a room full of old farts with increasingly out-of-date ideas who were all bribed for the privilege of watching movies. Continue reading