Brazil – My First Time Film Review Rob Salusbury March 26, 2020 Reviews In this new series of articles, our writers are watching classic films for the first time. Here we have Robert catching up on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. Earlier this year, bizarro director and ex-Monty...
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....
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...
Your Week In Film: Batman, Blade Runner, Boycotts and More Stephen O'Nion April 1, 2016 News We're still fresh to this News malarkey so this week we thought we'd change the format of things. We'll still cover industry news as well as the movings and shakings of those projects in production, but...
Absolutely Anything – Review Phil W. Bayles August 15, 2015 Reviews A comedy starring the cast of Monty Python and the late Robin Williams - not to mention a smorgasbord of British talent in supporting roles - sounds brilliant on paper, but it only works if you give them funny...
Scene Stealers: Spike Milligan in Monty Python’s Life of Brian Patrick Taylor September 26, 2014 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Monty Python’s Life of Brian is fabled for many things. From poking fun at organised religion, to serenely encouraging us all to (always) look on the bright side of life, it is a film of many and varied...
Stories from the Set: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Tom Bond July 6, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set 4 Comments The Pythons were on top of the world and falling apart. The first three series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had earned them an adoring fanbase and the opportunity to move to the big screen, but internal...
The Zero Theorem – Review Tom Bond March 15, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment The Zero Theorem is unmistakably a Terry Gilliam film, for better or worse. He has created a deliciously chaotic dystopia, saturated with colour and adverts, but his ramshackle directing threatens to disengage...
Best Films Never Made #10: Terry Gilliam’s Watchmen Tom Bond February 12, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 2 Comments Alan Moore’s legendary Watchmen was the catalyst for a sea change in the way both comic books and superheroes were viewed by the wider world. Deconstructing the clean-cut superhero myths of classics like...