Best Films Never Made #3: Neill Blomkamp’s Halo David Brake October 21, 2013 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 10 Comments In amongst the dusty annals of the best films never made, one blockbuster lies atop the pile. Widely known and anticipated for the last eight years, the ultimate videogame film adaptation, and the one film...
Best Films Never Made #2: Ridley Scott’s I Am Legend David Brake October 12, 2013 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 3 Comments Francis Lawrence’s 2007 version of I Am Legend was a box-office smash taking just shy of $600 million dollars worldwide, with Will Smith proving the Fresh Prince was the King of Hollywood for a reason. The...
Making It Big: Drunktown’s Finest David Brake October 9, 2013 Features, Independent, Making It Big 1 Comment In the next Making It Big, I’m going from a sleek vision of the future to a feature film about the tough lives of three young Navajo struggling to find their success in a reservation border-town defined by...
Making It Big: The Last Generation to Die David Brake October 2, 2013 Features, Independent, Making It Big In a new series of articles, I'm going to take a look at those independent film makers hoping to make it to the big time. So in the suitably titled, 'Making It Big', we'll be promoting these new exciting...
7 Films You Should See At The 2013 BFI London Film Festival David Brake September 16, 2013 Analysis, Features, Top 10 With the opening of the 57th BFI London Film Festival fast approaching, we take a quick look at the films we'll definitely be covering this year. Courtesy of Regency Enterprises 12 Years A Slave Dir:...
Gigli and the Fan Boys: Why Affleck Should Be Given a Chance David Brake August 25, 2013 Analysis, Features, Opinion 1 Comment The internet went to town following Warner Bros.' announcement that two-time Academy Award winner Ben Affleck, aged 41, is to be the new Bruce Wayne in Batman vs. Superman/Man of Steel 2. Social networks were...
51 Pieces of Movie Trivia You May Not Know David Brake August 19, 2013 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia 5 Comments You've had 50 slices of movie trivia so let's go one better. Literally. ENJOY! 1. Die Hard originated from the failed script of Commando 2. 2. Samuel L. Jackson demanded that the studio keep Snakes on a...
The Citizen Kane of Awful #1: Movie 43 David Brake May 13, 2013 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 9 Comments Welcome to a new feature 'The Citizen Kane of Awful', in which our authors will view less than good movies and provide a minute-by-minute commentary. One Room With A View aims to be open-minded; if...
50 Slices of Movie Trivia You May Not Know David Brake May 8, 2013 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia 23 Comments 1. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first film to ever show a toilet flush. 2. After Jaws, Spielberg tried to hang around the movie set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1976 film Family Plot in the hope of...
R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen David Brake May 7, 2013 Analysis, Features, One Off 1 Comment “They were considered B pictures because they were made on a tight budget. But we outlived many of the A pictures made at the same time” – Ray Harryhausen This morning, May 7, 2013, a film great left...
Best Films Never Made #1: Sylvester Stallone’s Poe David Brake March 28, 2013 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 5 Comments John Rambo, Rocky Balboa, Lt. Raymond Tango – Sylvester Stallone has been an icon of cinema for almost 40 years, keeping his '80s troupe current through the Expendables franchise. Yet behind all his bravado...