A Beginner’s Guide to… Cate Blanchett Carmen Paddock September 20, 2018 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Back on screens this week with the release of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, iconic Australian actress Cate Blanchett is adding a children’s fantasy film to her impressive list of achievements. She is...
10 Fictional Movie Languages We’d Love To Learn Phil W. Bayles November 10, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The idea of visitors from other worlds is one of the oldest in all of science fiction, but Denis Villeneuve's new film Arrival is one of the very few that poses a genuinely thorny problem: how would we...
Lord of Misrule: A Personal Tribute to Sir Christopher Lee Daniel Orton June 14, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight The last of his kind. That was how Tim Burton described Sir Christopher Lee last week after the actor passed away at the age of 93. Of course, it is perhaps fair to say that Sir Christopher was the only one of...
Best Films Never Made #8: John Boorman’s The Lord of the Rings Patrick Taylor January 19, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 3 Comments If anything can be learned from Peter Jackson’s celebrated trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most famous work, it is that one does not simply adapt a 1200-page novel for the big screen overnight. The road to the...
