The Hunt – Review Phil W. Bayles March 11, 2020 Reviews It’s easy to see why The Hunt was shelved last year following a spate of mass shootings in the US. Not because it’s violent – it is, but not emphatically more so than many other films released since –...
Cut! Why the Academy Awards Broadcast Needed Editing Stephen O'Nion February 14, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion Tinseltown and its suburbs, Film Twitter, are in uproar this week. The awarding of Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Film Editing and Best Live Action Short are all to be done during...
Was Scarlett Johansson the Right Choice for Ghost in the Shell? Kambole Campbell March 29, 2017 Analysis, Debate, Features The second release this month that has received a savage backlash from social media based on its casting of a white protagonist, the casting of Scarlett Johansson in Rupert Sanders' adaptation of Ghost in...
Best Films Never Made #25: Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried Tom Bond April 17, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features Holocaust comedy. Two words to make you leave the page in disgust or read on with extreme curiosity. If you’ve got any sense, you will have done the latter, because Jerry Lewis’ 1972 film The Day the...
The Interview – Review Christopher Preston February 10, 2015 Reviews Satire should be served bubbling; so acidic that it burns the spoon on which it is being delivered from. The Interview, by comparison, is a trampled clot of stinging nettles with some tired genital jokes...
