NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Boyhood is a very special movie for audiences. Not only because it’s taken a unique and unmatched approach to its storytelling (except for maybe Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday), not only because it grounds its situations and characters so firmly...
DIRECTORS: Phil Lord and Chris Miller NOW FOR THE REVIEW… The successful comedic revitalisation of crime TV series 21 Jump Street back in 2012 caught everyone by surprise, particularly because everyone had assumed it would be dead on arrival before even seeing it....
DIRECTOR: Robert Stromberg NOW FOR THE REVIEW… In 1996, a live-action remake of Disney’s 101 Dalmatians made its debut, featuring Glenn Close as the iconic villain Cruella De Vil. Not much is remembered about that particular version, except for Close’s vampy and...
DIRECTOR: Hossein Amini NOW FOR THE REVIEW… In our recent interview with writer-director Hossein Amini – of which you can read here – he talks about how he read Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Two Faces of January at university and decided that it would be the first...
DIRECTOR: Gareth Edwards NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Let’s clarify the first thing you’re all anxious to hear: no, there is no Matthew Broderick standing around looking stupid and saying horrible lines like this: [youtube id="XIgbPTBINhk?feature=oembed" allow="accelerometer;...
DIRECTOR: John Curran NOW FOR THE REVIEW… When telling the life story of a certain individual on the big screen, both the person and their tale need to have some form of cinematic presence in order to translate well into a narrative feature. If they’re fascinating...
DIRECTOR: David Ayer NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Has anyone noticed a significant change in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s acting career ever since he returned from politics? Gone are the days of Commando-style silliness and Total Recall-esque corny one-liners, which now make way...
DIRECTOR: Lenny Abrahamson NOW FOR THE REVIEW… There are only two major things that Lenny Abrahamson’s comedy Frank has in common with the late comic Chris Sievey’s creation Frank Sidebottom – the name Frank, and the giant papier-mâché head. Aside from those things,...
DIRECTOR: Paul W.S. Anderson NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Paul W.S. Anderson’s action-heavy take on the tragedy of Pompeii can best be summed up as “Emmerich Lite”. But whereas the director of Independence Day, 2012 and other mindless action/disaster movies went all-out epic...
DIRECTOR: Wally Pfister NOW FOR THE REVIEW… There’s a line in an episode of Breaking Bad where a character says to another, “Just because you shot Jesse James, don’t make you Jesse James”. Truer words have never been spoken concerning Wally Pfister who, after years of...