An industry in peril: How to save British film
Invest in and develop new talent? Nah – just force tosh down everyone’s throats, Hollywood-style. Despite Skyfall making over $1 billion, despite The King’s Speech winning multiple Oscars, and despite...
View ArticleThe five best movie trilogies of all time
Richard Linklater is about to become king of movie trilogies, but before he does… Judging by the weight of adulation being slathered upon Before Midnight, like Before Sunrise and Before Sunset before...
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Advancing CGI is CGI’s worst enemy
CGI is advancing so quickly that it’s starting to make itself look bad. Moore’s law states that approximately every two years, the processing power of personal computers essentially doubles, so your...
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Why I’m looking forward to the One Direction movie
With Morgan Spurlock at the helm, This Is Us may not be the teenybopper cash grab you think it is. I like One Direction. I don’t love One Direction – I’m not a ‘Directioner’. I don’t have a giant...
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Five ridiculous complaints made to the BBFC
The Railway Children receives its first complaint 42 years after release. Let’s see who else is crazy and wrong. Long live the BBFC. The once villainous British Board of Film Classification at the...
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The World’s End: Why wasn’t I laughing?
Our man was left pondering the social functions of laughter after a disastrous screening of The World’s End. During my teenage years, somewhere between repurposing my anatomy and accepting that mum was...
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Man of Steel 2: Why Josh Brolin should play Batman
Henry Cavill is on board Man of Steel 2 as Clark Kent, but who will play the Caped Crusader? July 20th 2013, San Diego Comic-Con. Zack ‘Visionary’ Snyder takes to the stage with a very special...
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Star Wars VII: The story so far
Who’s involved in the latest Star Wars movie and what that tells us. In the early 1970s, an aspiring young beard attached itself to the face of filmmaker George Lucas and the two formed an unlikely...
View ArticleHow Mumford & Sons have sullied the good name of folk music
Take down the bunting, the barn dance is over. At some point in 2010, Mumford & Sons inexplicably became the most popular band in the known universe. Something about the tweed-clad banjo twiddlers...
View ArticleRussell’s revolution: One for all and all for what?
Russell Brand’s Newsnight interview has gone viral, but what does he want, and isn’t the only realistic alternative to the ballot box violent uprising? As anyone with their toes in the waters of social...
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