Author David Brake

It's shockingly now 20 years since the human race (see: America) saved the world from that pesky alien scum on the 4th of July. Yet Hollywood - the fools - have let the aliens come back, with the new...

Norman Vincent Peale's most notable quote is "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars” - a warming sentiment now widely observed on cards, mugs and viral Facebook posts. When films...

Thanks to the tremendous folk at The Works Film Group, we've got THREE copies of Bone Tomahawk to give away on DVD! You'll want to enter this one. Not heard of it? It's an excellent Western that could...

Shane Black is in his zone. Creating a buddy comedy that boasts flawed characters with a wicked sense of humour is Black's specialist subject. Whilst not quite hitting the heights of Kiss Kiss, Bang...

In X-Men: Apocalypse, we find our favourite group of mutants in 1983, dealing with more than just the fashions of the time. An ancient, powerful and extremely angry creature named Apocalypse has awakened after...

Malick poses questions about purpose and life whilst running on an empty tank. As expected, Emmanuel Lubezki (DP for Gravity and Birdman) achieves wonders for Malick, transforming urban landscapes and GoPro...

Captain America technically shouldn't work on screen. The fundamental top-line interpretation is that he's a chest-beating, red-white-'n'-blue überpatriot who could appear obnoxious, removed and...

https://vimeo.com/133163037 Composure. It's an element often absent from short films. Flair and innovation usually abound in shorts but when the razzle dazzle dims, the cracks are all too revealing....

We've not done one of these for a while so if we are going to do it, let's offer you something pretty spectacular. To celebrate and coincide with the release of Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead, we've been given...

Rambunctious, kinetic, and aggressively styled, Eisenstein in Guanajuato is Peter Greenaway’s best film in years. This tale of Sergei Eisenstein’s sexual awakening in Mexico is overflowing with vim and...

Stories of extraordinary lunar adventures will always be compelling, and as such The Last Man on the Moon could not fail despite being hardly revelatory filmmaking. This is one man telling his good story,...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/156553337 Welcome to the wildly beautiful Wild West. There's no time for reflection or composure as Stephen Reedy goes hell for leather in his punky, Scott...

Alfred Hitchcock once said "to make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script." Who would've thought Kung Fu Panda 3 could embody this truism. Taking a markedly different...

Welcome to One Room With A View’s (soon-to-be) LIVE coverage of the 88th Academy Awards! Tonight’s ceremony in Los Angeles will be hosted by Chris Rock, whereas our ceremony will be hosted by yours...

https://vimeo.com/153887315 A grated brain, elephants painting rescue signs and opera-singing penguins are just a few of the vignettes of gold within Symphony No. 42. Flowing through dreams, and...