CEL Mates: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Nick Evan-Cook October 7, 2015 CEL Mates, Features, Independent Here's one to make you feel old: Wallace and Gromit's debut feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit turns ten years old this month - but instead of sitting and pondering the fleeting nature of time, what...
Short of the Week – Tombes & Manèges David Brake October 5, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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...
Short of the Week – But Milk Is Important Ellen Dwyer September 28, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/50600924 It’s nice to see a film tackling mental illness without over-sentimentality; But Milk is Important offers a reminder of how the most mundane tasks, like talking...
Short of the Week – Agoraphobic Stephen O'Nion September 21, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAsiyqgehL8 Mondays, right? Garfield knows what I’m talking about. A timid fella takes transport, bustled along in the crowds he seeks to avoid. Unable to escape, he...
Short of the Week – How to Age Gracefully Danielle Davenport September 14, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/137249858 "Indulge your sweet tooth. You’ll need dentures soon anyway". In How to Age Gracefully, skilful artifice and spontaneity collide to create something...
Maybeland: The Maze Runner Madeline Joint September 10, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland 16 year-old Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) wakes with no memories in ‘The Glade’, surrounded by boys hardened by years fighting for survival in their little community. Fighting what? Surrounding them sits the...
Short of the Week – ZARI David Brake September 7, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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...
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...
CEL Mates: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Conor Morgan August 26, 2015 CEL Mates, Features, Independent “Oh, yes, I think South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is just terrific, and the numbers in it are wonderful” - Stephen Sondheim South Park is often written off by people who have almost certainly...
Short of the Week – You Won’t Regret That Tattoo Madeline Joint August 24, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/89546048 You Won’t Regret That Tattoo is a talking-head documentary about tattooed over-50s: men and women, military lads and spiritualists, diehard troublemakers and adorable...
Short of the Week – Miguel – Crazy Enough David Brake August 17, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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...
Short of the Week – Tusk Danielle Davenport August 10, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/134560750 Tusk is a promising short film completed by Rory Waudby-Tolley during his first year at the Royal College of Art. The film’s central question is about outsider identity,...
Short of the Week – Dotty David Brake August 3, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/128544536 At 91, Joyce Irving is a star in her debut short. Fragile, funny and sagacious, Irving shines. Placed within an obvious narrative, the actress has...
Short of the Week – Ronald David Brake July 27, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/132688253 More men have walked on the moon than been Ronald McDonald. Ronald is the story of the 1995 to 2007 inhabitant, Joe Maggard. Director John Dower has...
Short of the Week – Benigni Rachel Brook July 20, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl8M6QGnVEo Benigni is a beguiling and paradoxical fantasy of the mundane which, despite early foreshadowing, contains plenty of shock value. Skilful animation endows...
