Stories from the Set: Roman Holiday Chris Davies April 19, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set 1 Comment A girl leaps from the bed and runs to the window. Outside people dance in the warm Italian night as she watches, longing to join them. She may be a princess, but her royal duties bind her; her capacious and...
Making It Big: Being George Clooney David Brake March 13, 2014 Features, Independent, Making It Big How hard is it to be George Clooney? It can't be that bad, can it. Super models falling at your feet, Nespresso adverts keeping your bank account healthy and being largely regarded as the biggest name in...
The Celluloid Ceiling: International Women’s Day In Film David Brake March 8, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 2 Comments HOLLYWOOD Hey, you. Do you know how much 2013's female-fronted movies made at the box office? No? Care to guess? With their totals combined, major Hollywood films like Gravity, The Hunger Games: Catching...
Alien, Gravity, and Pacific Rim: The Radical Notion That Women Are People David Brake March 5, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion 63 Comments PSA: this piece isn't an argument over whether Stone, Mori, or even Ripley do or don't pass this or that feminist reading. Whilst this writer's opinion is that they do, that particular discussion is already...
A Tribute To Philip Seymour Hoffman David Brake February 2, 2014 Analysis, Features, Spotlight 1 Comment Fuck. That was my initial reaction to today's sad news. I never met Philip Seymour Hoffman. Unless you float in the circles of film and Broadway, it's unlikely you did either. We won't get the chance...
Kim Jong-Il & Hollywood: A Tale of Kidnapping, Videotapes and Sean Connery David Brake January 28, 2014 Analysis, Features, One Off "All our movies are filled with crying and sobbing. I didn't order them to portray that kind of thing" - Kim Jong-Il "The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature....
Stories from the Set: Gone with the Wind Tori Brazier January 25, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set 1939 was the biggest year for quality movie-making that Hollywood had ever seen, with classics such as Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Ninotchka all nominees for the Best Picture...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Michael Bay Chris Davies December 17, 2013 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 4 Comments One of Hollywood’s most financially successful filmmakers yet often critically derided, Bay has directed films such as Bad Boys, The Rock, Pearl Harbor and the Transformers trilogy. During the 1980s, two...
Don Jon – Review Chris Davies November 12, 2013 Reviews Actor, singer and professional handsome man Joseph Gordon-Levitt can now add writer and director to his list of accolades thanks to one of the year’s finest comedies. JGL ensures his eponymous narcissist...
Milius – Review Chris Davies November 4, 2013 Reviews 1 Comment Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola and other living legends lend amusing anecdotes on this controversial figure and his self-constructed mythos. Sadly, a stroke has left Milius with a severe speech impediment, so...