Steven Soderbergh gave a powerful speech entitled “Sate of Cinema” at the San Francisco International Film Festival on Saturday. The acclaimed filmmaker is retiring from movies to focus on other projects but he’s exact reasons had remained unclear, until now. His speech covers much of the same ground as Kevin Smith’s now legendary one at Sundance [...]
Christopher Nolan is a modern enigma; he is one of the world’s most successful filmmakers yet he has an open disdain for modern cinema’s over-reliance on CG and recently spoke quite candidly of his dislike of 3D. Added to this the fact that his films highlight a pre-occupation with obsession, grief, fear and loss and [...]
I had intended to post this review when Red State came out on cinemas, I was lucky enough to find a cinema showing it within reasonable travel distance and got to see it the week of release. I wanted to see it a second time on the big screen before writing up my thoughts but [...]
Whilst I was researching an article for you good people, I stumbled across two shocking trailers for forthcoming movies. These are horror movies after all, but rather than being shocking due to the intense horror they were simple shockingly poor. I’m all for low budget movies, I’ve even made a couple with my fellow Jellyfielders. [...]
It was a bit of a middleweight effort from the new releases, but Real Steel claimed the champions belt with $27.3 million.The Hugh Jackman robot boxing drama was only really up against The Ides Of March, which was on significantly fewer screens. The political thriller starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney who also directs the film. This [...]
