Jonás and Alfonso Cuarón talk Desierto, Immigration and Harry Potter Nick Evan-Cook October 18, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Jonás Cuarón's second feature, Desierto, produced by his father Alfonso, screened this week in Official Competition at the 2015 London Film Festival. We sat down for a roundtable chat with the pair to talk...
Thomas Turgoose And Charley Palmer Rothwell Talk Jacked, This Is England and Patsy Palmer Nick Evan-Cook October 15, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Starring two of Britain's brightest up and coming lead actors, Thomas Turgoose and Charley Palmer Rothwell star in the new short film, Jacked, which is premièring at the 2015 London Film Festival. As...
The ORWAV Playlist – October 2015 Calum Baker October 7, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
12 Rounds with Vic Armstrong Hugh Blackstaffe September 19, 2015 12 Rounds, Behind The Curtain, Features In the buildup to the release of Spectre, ORWAV sat down with legendary stunt master Vic Armstrong, who has appeared in and even partly directed over a dozen of 007's onscreen adventures. He is truly an icon...
Best Films Never Made #27: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis David Brake September 16, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features “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...
The ORWAV Playlist – September 2015 Calum Baker September 8, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
The Transporter Refueled – Interview with Ed Skrein David Brake September 2, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview 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...
Music of the Movies: Rap Music Eddie Falvey August 27, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies For the most part, the reception to the incoming (in the UK, at least) N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton has been surprisingly positive. Despite boasting a running time that rivals Gladiator - the film...
Best Films Never Made #26: George Miller’s Justice League David Brake August 18, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 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...
Tom Harper Talks War Book, Low-Budget Filmmaking and War and Peace Tom Bond August 14, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview 70 years on from the world-changing atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film about the dangers of nuclear war is finally getting the attention it deserves. War Book is about a government exercise where...
The Quest To Build Minas Tirith: An Exclusive Interview With The Campaign’s Leader Patrick Taylor August 14, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview The last few days have seen a bunch of architects and structural engineers take the world by storm with their quest to build a real-life version of Minas Tirith in the UK. The campaign, entitled Realise Minas...
Stories from the Set: Doctor Strangelove Phil W. Bayles August 7, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set "Mein Fuhrer... I can walk!" You don’t become one of the greatest auteurs in the history of cinema without doing a few things that make people charitably describe you as being “a few reels short of a...
The ORWAV Playlist – August 2015 Calum Baker August 6, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Music of the Movies: Pixar Calum Baker July 28, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Over 21 years and 15 feature films, Pixar have taken us from small bedrooms to big cities, from Toy Barns to the depths of the ocean, deepest forests to outer space - and now, fantastically, inside the mind of...
Stories from the Set: Fritz the Cat Cathy Brennan July 10, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set Regarded today as that film with Arthur-esque characters getting high and screwing, the 1972 film Fritz the Cat can be seen as an ancestor to raunchy cartoons like South Park and Family Guy. Today...