All the Money in the World: Replacing and Recreating Actors Carmen Paddock January 3, 2018 Analysis, Features, Opinion Christopher Plummer is doing very well this year, mainly in the sense that he is a well-regarded man in Hollywood who is not in the midst of a sexual harassment or assault scandal. Furthermore, his turn as J....
Was Resurrecting Peter Cushing For Rogue One A Masterstroke Or The Start Of A Worrying Trend? Tom Bond December 22, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features You’ve probably seen Rogue One by now, and if you haven’t - go buy a ticket! Once you’ve seen it you’ll undoubtedly have thoughts about the appearances of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher as Grand Moff...
Short of the Week – Abe Cameron Ward December 1, 2014 Features, Independent, Short of the Week http://vimeo.com/64114843 Rob McLellan’s 8 minute exploration of cold obsession under the chilling light of self-awareness finds new material for the affectionate sociopath, chillingly augmenting the...
12 Rounds With Annie Ellis Hugh Blackstaffe September 16, 2014 12 Rounds, Behind The Curtain, Features One Room With A View goes 12 Rounds with the unstoppable Annie Ellis. A master of horses, expert stunt driver, and qualified badass, Annie has survived everything the stunt industry can throw at her on- and...
YouTube: Top 5 Worst CGI Moments Jamie MacLeod August 15, 2014 Reviews CGI has revolutionised the way in which stories are told and films are made. The technique has come a long way since it originally started blessing our screens. However, it isn’t always done right – in...
Lucy – Review Cameron Ward August 14, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Visually overflowing, and just about as ludicrous as it is "clever", Luc Besson's latest relies so heavily on pseudo-intellectualism that its outer world quickly falls away to pseudo-reality. Though...
The Congress – Review Tom Bond August 5, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment The Congress looks at the state of modern Hollywood - actresses battling ageism, the cannibalising presence of CGI and mo-cap – and reflects back a metafictional gem. Folman’s adapted script is cynical...
Transformers: Age of Extinction – Review Christopher Preston July 4, 2014 Reviews 3 Comments Michael Bay isn’t a film director. He’s a demolition expert, and a damn good one at that. So much destruction explodes across Age of Extinction, in fact, that it appears to have shellshocked any semblance...
Why The Modern Superhero Film Failed Tom Bond May 20, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion 5 Comments Last week I wrote an article explaining why the modern superhero film succeeded, and now here I am telling you the exact opposite. A bit hypocritical, right? But as much as the genre has wowed audiences and...
Why the Modern Superhero Film Succeeded – The Origin Story Tom Bond May 16, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion 2 Comments We live in a golden age for the superhero film – a period that will go down in cinematic history for its unprecedented levels of productivity, creativity and popular acclaim. The comic books where these...
I, Frankenstein – Review David Brake January 30, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment I, Frankenstein is one-part Mary Shelley to three thousand parts "makers of the Underworld quadrilogy". Apart from Frankenstein's Monster – here named Adam and unbelievably ripped for a quasi-zombie –...