Author David Brake

Coffee: the world's most popular drink. Last year, Americans consumed up to 150 billion cups of coffee and 54% of all Americans, aged over 18, drunk at least one cup of coffee a day. However let us look beyond...

It’s halfway through the 1960s and Alfred Hitchcock is on the decline. His latest features of Marnie, a critical failure, and Torn Curtain, an ambivalent flop, have seen the grand filmmaker’s name reach...

Welcome to our new feature, The Movies & Me. In this weekly feature, we will be talking with the biggest names in film to find out their loves & loathings of the cinematic world. Born into a...

With Star Wars: Episode VII set for release in just 21 months, the internet has used its sleuthing skills to maximum effect and discovered the cast of the latest feature. With hyperbole abounding, it's time to...

Welcome to By The Book, where we compare the book with its visual adaptation. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling or are the authors turning in their graves through these unholy versions...

How hard is it to be George Clooney? It can't be that bad, can it. Super models falling at your feet, Nespresso adverts keeping your bank account healthy and being largely regarded as the biggest name in...

HOLLYWOOD Hey, you. Do you know how much 2013's female-fronted movies made at the box office? No? Care to guess? With their totals combined, major Hollywood films like Gravity, The Hunger Games: Catching...

PSA: this piece isn't an argument over whether Stone, Mori, or even Ripley do or don't pass this or that feminist reading. Whilst this writer's opinion is that they do, that particular discussion is already...

The decision to remake Clint Eastwood's masterpiece is a bold and peculiar move. The new Unforgiven's strength derives from its departure from the narrative of old. Aided by the striking vistas of Japan,...

Winner of two Japanese Academy Awards and director of several critically acclaimed films, Sang-il Lee has taken on his biggest challenge to date by remaking the Clint Eastwood classic, Unforgiven. We caught...

Welcome to By The Book, where we compare the book with its visual adaptation. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling or are the authors turning in their graves through these unholy versions...

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is one of the most celebrated children's films of all time. Infectious songs, eccentricities beyond compare and a surprising darkness that lingers in the mind, Willy...

With the Academy Awards exactly a week away, it is time to introduce the first ever One Room With A View awards. Surely not another film award ceremony? Absolutely! We've got all the traditional categories you...

If you expect The Invisible Woman to enlighten you about its eponymous heroine, you might be disappointed. Despite a fine performance by Felicity Jones as Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, the woman who spent thirteen...

In a career spanning five decades, Hayao Miyazaki has transformed the genre of animation.  His ability to incorporate thematic depth and visual excellence into his features has inspired generations of...