“I don’t have to go to work anymore? Yatta!!!!” Netflix has revealed the first look teaser trailer for a live-action adaptation of a popular Japanese manga called Zom 100. The Continue Reading ›
★★★★★ Directed by: #ShaunJamesGrant Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #ShaunJamesGrant & #LukeShentonSharp Starring: #JaneDowden, #YannGael Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Short Film Review by Taryll Baker A couple on an ominous journey pull into a rest stop diner in the early hours of…
There is magic in the art of indie film. A journey of exploration whose defined boxes of storytelling give way, warping and bending, allowing for emotional explorations and narrative oddities to fill the screen. Outside the blockbuster realm, it’s where some of the best geniuses take root. And writer-director Mike Cahill’s Another Earth is the…
Everybody’s sick to death of hearing about these “unprecedented times”, and nobody more so than film festival organisers. As rising Covid cases started to cancel festivals at the start of the year, festivals were faced with the decision of moving online, or scrapping this year’s edition outright, creating new challenges that may have made films…
Another social media cautionary tale! This amusing, wacky animated short is a personal project from Berlin-based animation filmmaker Cornelius Joksch and it’s another fun story that’s criticizing the tragic lives of people obsessed with their social media presence. Cornelius makes his own short films and illustrations, but also works for brands and studios. Oh, Darling!…
“What if there’s no such thing as happiness, only moments of not being depressed?” So asks the schizophrenic protagonist of Eternal Beauty, the sophomore feature from Welsh actor-turned-director Craig Roberts. A darkly funny portrait of the agony and ecstasy of mental illness, with a hearty side of familial dysfunction, the film thrives courtesy of some…
Welcome to How’d They Do That? — a bi-monthly column that unpacks moments of movie magic and celebrates the technical wizards who pulled them off. This entry explains why the “Ave Maria” sequence in Disney’s Fantasia was one of the most challenging filmmaking moments in animation history. Fantasia was Walt Disney’s greatest and weirdest experiment….