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So far in Making It Big, we've promoted gorgeous stop motion animations to feature length psychological thrillers - all within the boundaries of the fictional. Therefore it's time to support the factual with a...

Katniss Everdeen is an inspiration to all. She’s feisty, honest, kickass and real. All of this derives from Jennifer Lawrence. From start to (especially) finish, she impresses. However, her brilliance...

Disney doing Disney, featuring Walt Disney. There was always going to be more than a spoonful of sugar to help this medicine go down, but the helping is so large in Saving Mr. Banks, it threatens to send you...

An independent movie focusing on the consequences of child abuse does not sound like the year’s most uplifting film but, somehow, Short Term 12 has managed to be just that. Set almost entirely within a...

With Oscar-buzzed films emerging from the woodwork, it seems it's high time to start making wild predictions months before the ceremony/nominations announcement. We won't do every category just yet as that's...

The overwhelming problem with Thor 2 is it’s undeniably successful at ticking boxes. It’s got explosions, jokes and Loki galore - but where’s the beef? To explain, there are just too many characters....

Blue is the Warmest Color’s reputation precedes it, for its graphic depiction of lesbian sex if not its Palme d’Or win earlier this year. But step over the controversy, and what you’ll find is a very...

In this next installment of Making It Big, we enter the horrors of the mind & witness our lead Alice Weldon survive her increasingly disturbing dreams following her recent hospitalization as well as...

No longer must Chiwetel Ejiofor suffer the slight of being labelled an "up-and-coming" actor. His performance in 12 Years a Slave ensures that he can trade in that tired soundbite and replace with another:...

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...

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...

"I think a future flight should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher . . . we might get a much better idea of what we saw." - Michael Collins, the pilot of Apollo 11, describing his views from the...

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...

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...

“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...