Gareth Edwards’ is a part of a new generation of Hollywood directors. The 36 year old London boy is paving the way for a surge in low-budget sci-fi films inspired by the likes of George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg and, as I learnt today, Ray Harryhausen. Edwards’ feature debut, Monsters, received critical acclaim and was adored [...]
From US director Mark Romanek comes a film that dares to explore an age-old truism: is it really better to have loved, and lost, than to have never loved at all? In Never Let Me Go, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are three unlikely friends, growing up together at Hailsham, what appears to be a run-of-the-mill, [...]
The late Sidney Lumet wrote in his seminal “Making Movies”, that music will nearly always make a bad film better, but has the power to make a good film great. It can lift poor performances, hide bad-direction and ultimately come to define the film. Now, were not dealing with audio cues and scores, rather, I [...]