A Night Well Spent
Share A Review of Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris‘ With its charming atmosphere, beautiful scenery, and comically lined script, Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight In Paris’ is a must see for both literary students and the general audience. Maintaining a sharp, effective and comical script, as found in much of Allen’s work, ‘Midnight in Paris’ is a...
The Triumph of the Feckless
Share “People, Places, Things,” is a mantra an old companion and friend of my youth enjoys repeating whenever some impetuous member of our circle begins talking about ways in which the world could be improved for the better. He refers, naturally, to those res which one is personally incapable of effecting. It is a good...
Movie Review: ‘Up in the air’
Share This is a movie that belongs with new-age travel as alternative lifestyle literature. In recent years, people have opted for a life on the open road instead of a stable home. Vagabonding is the new hippy-ism, the new personal statement of lifestyle choice. There is a whole set of inspirational literature, which...
Filmshare – follow our DVDs as they travel round the world
Share The Flaneur has collected many DVDs over the years and it is time to let them make their way in the world instead of sitting on the shelf waiting to be watched again. Yes, we’ll be sad to see them go, but we’re doing it for them. DVDs want to be watched. They don’t...
Free Reel Romania – bringing free films to rural Romania
Share Free Reel Romania is a non-profit project proposed by Free Reel Mobile Cinema, an initiative of Cinephilia Services Ltd. The project will carry out a series of free film screenings and filmmaking workshops in rural communities across Romania that have little or no access to cultural activities throughout June and July 2012. Romania is...
X: The Man With X Ray Eyes (DVD release)
Share The name Roger Corman is synonymous with the type of hack, horror sci-fi B movies one could only previously associate with William Castle. Corman has produced and directed over 450 movies and is still working today, manufacturing such demented but vibrant dross like Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader, Sharkoctopus and Camel Spiders. His current...
Quoth The Raven
Share Using a blend of murder mystery, elements of the horror genre and bloody violence, The Raven tries to offer up a reason for the death of the well known poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe. Introducing the audience in its opening scene to 19th century Baltimore amidst a bloody murder, the tone...
Murder By Decree: DVD review
Share Retaining the dark and eerie style he established in 1974’s Black Christmas, Bob Clark’s Murder By Decree successfully blends fact and fiction as Sherlock Holmes and Watson go on the trail of Jack the Ripper in this atmospheric and entertaining yarn from 1979. Christopher Plummer and James Mason make an endearing Sherlock and Watson,...
Film Review: Driving on the Edge
Share From its opening sequence displaying Ryan Gosling as The Driver, the only identity that is attached to his character throughout the duration of the film, to its chilling ending, the audience of Drive is left in a state of awe at the masterpiece that Nicolas Winding Refn has once again brought forward. Cleverly making...
Film production: Help fund short film Journey Men
Share The road down the unknown will take you home… Elsa is a bully and a nightmare to everyone around her. She is also elderly, is recovering from a stroke and lives in a care home. While people struggle to put up with her antics, Elsa struggles with her fear of death, holding on...
Film Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Share The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is named well – like its hyperbolic title, the film is similar to a kitschy peacock that thinks it’s much better than it really is. But of course, kitsch can be really good – and this is great in lots of ways. The film’s strongest point is the cinematography;...
Shakespeare on Screen: Do or Don’t?
Share In Issue 39 (Jan/Feb 2012) of Little White Lies magazine, the publication’s editor, Matt Bochenski, reviewed Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus. In his review, Bochenski claims “there’s no place for William Shakespeare in cinema”, commenting on the “dull drone of a dead language”, and ending his article with the assertion “no more Shakespeare until we agree...
Film Review: Carnage
Share Based on a play Le Dieu du Carnage by Yasmina Reza, virtually the entire film takes place in the front room of Penelope and Michael Longstreet’s house in New York. After a fight between Ethan Longstreet and Zachary Cowan, Penelope and Michael ask Nancy and Alan Cowan around to their house to discuss how...
Film Review: The Iron Lady
Share From the trailers the film looked to be an interesting biopic of the infamous Margaret Thatcher, a woman who led a fascinating life from her relatively humble beginnings as a grocer’s daughter growing up in Lincolnshire, to Conservative Prime Minister during a turbulent eleven years of British history. Undoubtedly this in itself is ample material...
Return To Witch Mountain: DVD review
Share After the mammoth box office flumping of Disney’s John Carter one cannot help but recall the studios earlier live action pictures from the 1970s and how different they were in comparison to the behemoths of today. Instead of John Carter and Pirates Of The Caribbean we had dainty little efforts like The Cat From...
“Your Sister’s Sister” – The value of improvisation
Share Having premiered at several of the big film festivals earlier this year without much attention, and due for a summer release amongst a bevy of blockbusters, Lynn Shelton’s very funny comedy/drama starring Mark Duplass and Emily Blunt will probably go largely unnoticed by most filmgoers this year. But the film’s genial exploration of human...
Amateur film maker winning prizes: Luis Mieses and The Fixer
Share Bringing hope to all wannabee film makers and with no formal film training, Conrad attempted to fulfill his dream of making movies for the first time at age 37. In 2011 he showcased his first short film, Avenger Love, as an amateur with a home (consumer) video camera. Soon, Conrad began to meet people...
Why didn’t I love the 3D Aardman Pirates and their scientist friend?
Share I was looking forward to seeing Pirates! In an adventure with scientists! more than I have looked forward to seeing a children’s film since, well, when I was child. On paper it had all the top-notch Aardman elements so when I went into the cinema with a gaggle of children I was the keenest...
How I made my first feature film, ‘The Dinner Date’, for just £700 by Win Edson
Share So there I was, my film camera in one hand, aiming the boom mic with the other, attempting to nudge a light stand with my foot to better light my actors. This is when I realized that to write, produce, direct, camera operate, and edit a feature film on my own, may have been...
Dressing Marilyn; a book review.
Share Fifty years on, Marilyn Monroe is a style icon that is instantly recognisable because of her platinum hair, hourglass figure and that famous white dress in the Seven Year Itch. Also with Michelle Williams playing Marilyn Monroe in A Week with Marilyn she has been bought to the forefront of our minds once again....
An American Producer. Making a British Film. In Venice. Part Two.
Share Gondolas! Freakin’ gondolas! I’m back from Venice and Part Two of ‘The Girl and the Gondola’ shoot – the pick-ups. Needless to say it wasn’t really that different than it was in October last year, but there are certainly more things to talk about…. You might have read my article about the making of...
Film Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Share In recent years the spy genre has seen resurgence, restyled either as sophisticated postmodern thrillers (the Bourne and James Bond franchises, Spooks) or comedies (Johnny English and the Sky1 TV sitcom Spy). It is a testament to the strength of the genre that it is as diversely adaptable to the telling of different stories...
The Appeal of the Road Movie
Share Ah the open road. A place which for most is a nightmare, a tarmac track they share for hours shoulder to shoulder with countless others back dropping their journey from A to B has been transformed, by cinema, into something of magical folklore, a place of opportunity, freedom and possibility. Last month we were...
The Cabin in the Woods: Film review
Share On first appearance The Cabin in the Woods looks like just another genre movie: a group of teenagers take a weekend break to a relative’s dilapidated shack in the forest only to find themselves menaced by a malevolent force in a blood soaked battle for survival. But don’t be fooled by the set up....
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