Spotlight: James McAvoy Bethany White December 3, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight We know James McAvoy best for X-Men and Atonement, but he’s so much more than Professor X. His upcoming role as the eponymous Victor Frankenstein means it’s as good a time as any to focus on the...
Short of the Week: Escargore Bethany White November 9, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/mdsnz/escargore Beheaded. Flambéed to death. Exposed to lethal amounts of radiation. These are just a few of the macabre fates of the stars in this short. But if you’ve overdone...
Short of the Week – Rew Day Bethany White August 31, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/129677228 Rew Day has a striking aesthetic, but it’s the storytelling that makes this macabre short captivating. Director Svilen Dimitrov tells the story of a very unlucky chap...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Ingrid Bergman Bethany White August 28, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Had she been alive today, the great Ingrid Bergman would be turning 100 this month. Bergman was a unique character in the Golden Age of Hollywood; in the '30s, Hollywood starlets were sassy, sexy, and...
Spotlight: Paul Rudd Bethany White July 15, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight "60% of the time, it works every time." - Brian Fantana, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The same could be said of Paul Rudd himself. To say he has had a varied career would be something of...
Short of the Week – Sahar Bethany White July 6, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/alexanderfarah/sahar What happened to Sahar? Alexander Farah’s short lets the answer hang in gloomy ambiguity. Seething with family tensions, gender politics and the clash of...
Short of the Week – One Year Lease Bethany White June 8, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/111681045 "Chat lunatique": this fridge-magnet epithet encapsulates the irksome antagonist of this amusing short. Told almost exclusively through voicemails, One Year Lease tracks...