Your Week In Film: Gilliam, Ghostbusters and more! Stephen O'Nion June 9, 2017 News 1. Don Quixote is coming… finally It’s taken nearly 20 years but Terry Gilliam has completed principal photography on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. No, we don’t believe it either. Gilliam’s quest...
Poetry in Motion: The Animation of Michaël Dudok de Wit Calum Baker May 25, 2017 CEL Mates, Features, Independent If you haven't done so before, we'd recommend watching each of these brief shorts as you go through. The shortest is 2:32 and the longest is around eight minutes. Writer-director Michaël Dudok de Wit...
Your Week In Film: Foy, Flash, Frost & Pegg Stephen O'Nion May 19, 2017 News 1. Jimmy Kimmel will get to have another go at this whole Oscars thing Prepare yourself for a whole lot more jokes about Matt Damon, folks! Jimmy Kimmel has been announced as the host of the 90th Academy...
Your Week In Film: Doug, Depp, Dafne, De Niro, and Dodge! Stephen O'Nion May 12, 2017 News 1. Doug Liman will live, die, repeat his mistake Did you watch All You Need is Kill? Maybe you knew it as Edge of Tomorrow when it was in cinemas? Or have you seen it since as Live Die Repeat? Whatever you...
10 of the Greatest Dogs in Cinema Phil W. Bayles May 2, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 A Dog’s Purpose tells the story of Toby, a dog with the voice of the snowman from Frozen, who dies and is reincarnated four times in an attempt to reunite with his master. That’s pretty impressive loyalty,...
Your Week In Film: Jurassic Jeff, Classic ‘Cameron, and Tilda Stephen O'Nion April 28, 2017 News 1. James Cameron really hopes you’re free in December 2025 Managing to lend an element of bombast and futurismo to an otherwise standard scheduling announcement, James Cameron has unleashed the release...
Your Week In Film: Nuns, Gunn and The Man From U.N.C.L.E Stephen O'Nion April 21, 2017 News 1. Will Smith might grant our wish and play the Genie Disney really want a piece of that Big Willie style. According to Deadline, the studio is eager for Will Smith to play the Genie in the upcoming...
Graduation (Bacalaureat) – Review Nick Evan-Cook April 2, 2017 Reviews Joint winner of Best Director at Cannes 2016, Cristian Mungiu returns with his finest work since his sublime Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days with Graduation, an intelligent, elegant, morally...
Where Are They Now? The Millennium’s One-Hit Wonders Tom Bond March 22, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, Where Are They Now? 1 Comment One quirk of every awards season are the filmmakers who enjoy a shining moment of glory, full of the promise of cinematic brilliance to come, only to fade away into obscurity. Out of sheer curiosity, we’ve...
Personal Shopper – Review Nick Evan-Cook March 16, 2017 Reviews Best described as "divisive" at its Cannes premiere, Olivier Assayas and Kristen Stewart's brave and uncategorisable second collaboration Personal Shopper swings fearlessly for the fences and only narrowly...
How Well Do You Know The Films of Paul Verhoeven? Tom Bond March 8, 2017 Quiz This week sees the release of Elle, the latest film from acclaimed director Paul Verhoeven, so what better time to look back at his career and test your knowledge? You may love his films, but how well do you...
Certain Women – Review Rachel Brook March 3, 2017 Reviews If Alice Munro made films, you’d pray they’d look like this. Kelly Reichardt’s adaptation of short stories by Montana native Maile Meloy has a staggeringly subtle touch, and is an experience more...
Your Week In Film: Simba, Solo, Scorsese and Sleeper Cells Stephen O'Nion February 24, 2017 News 1. Han Solo No Mo Principal photography has started on the Han Solo spin-off movie. To celebrate, here’s a lovely photo of the cast (and directors Christopher Lord and Phil Miller) in non-appropriate...
The Cinematic Mixtapes of Xavier Dolan L D February 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Music of the Movies Discursive, digressive, inconsistent, incoherent. Just a few words that come to mind when listening to the soundtracks from Xavier Dolan’s first five features. Track by track, he jumps from French-Italian...
Is It Time For The Academy To Move Beyond Oscar Bait? Kambole Campbell February 13, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Biopics, historical dramas, films about Hollywood, war films. The key phrase continually thrown around by the masses that connects these genres is the demeaning qualifier “Oscar bait” – should the film...