Author David Brake

It's 116 days till the Oscars. It's early November, and yet we do not have our champion for Best Picture. Well, we may have several. Usually we will have our frontrunners by now, but at present, anybody could...

https://vimeo.com/143233550 Finding love in the modern digital age? We've been here before. Eight minutes of dialogue-free drama? Well, we've seen that before too. Yet similarity does not equate to...

A story 50 years in the making: as with many stories we tell in this series, it concludes with an unhappy ending. Not for a studio, or the character of James Bond and his legacy, but one man. His name was...

A tale of a youth seeking abortion, even in Vietnam, borders on the prosaic - yet Diep's sensual approach allows it to become a springboard for more interesting facets. The exploration of a youth with no...

Calm, rational and dignified all while shining light through a black hole. To navigate a topic such as the Holocaust with two children of Nazi generals provides a strong hook. It'd be easy to sensationalise,...

https://vimeo.com/135249977 Now this is an impressive student debut. Created by a crack team of brilliant animators and storytellers, Tombes & Manèges is a likeable short. Going on the charm...

“You see the movies they make now... They just keep making the same one over and over again.” Francis Ford Coppola no longer believes in cinema. Of all the Best Films Never Made projects haunting...

At the surface, one might expect Containment to be a paint-by-numbers thriller, sticking seven people on one set, winding them up and letting them go; but there's enough finesse in this little indie film to...

https://vimeo.com/98398778 ZARI is a film confident in its narrative. A flaw? Perhaps, yet an impressive statement of intent. Slow to borderline boring, this short never rushes. Yet to criticise...

You may have seen Frank Martin in his previous Jason Statham incarnations, but now this franchise is being refuelled with Ed Skrein at the helm. In The Transporter Refueled the English actor portrays...

About halfway through Amy Schumer's breakout debut Trainwreck, her protagonist (also named Amy) explains to her sister that she's terrified of falling for her romantic lead because, in her experience of...

What if DC were level with Marvel? Scratch that, what if they were ahead? One film had the potential to make it happen nearly a decade earlier. The mastermind was George Miller; the man who made our ears and...

https://vimeo.com/136247836 Miguel. Young, naive and hopeful. A fresh faced, sunglasses-toting 22-year-old with a dream. Three albums later, he's a star. GL Askew II's beautiful photography...

The Gift explores the unsettling relationship between two men who went to school together, and are reunited randomly. Seemingly innocent at first, it quickly turns suspicious, as there appears to be something...

It's competition time again here at One Room With A View towers! Thanks to the great people at Organic, we've got a DVD of Glassland for you to win ! Not heard of it? Now's the time to educate...