Would you rather burn out or fade away? A question that eventually plagues successful artists of all practices. But its a question that carries even more weight when applied to Steven Soderbergh’s last feature film, Side Effects. Apart from Behind The Candelabra, a HBO TV movie currently in post-production and due for release soon, Soderbergh has been threatening…
Hitchcock biopics are like buses. You wait and wait and wait until two turn up at once. Toby Jones strapped on the prosthetic belly late last year to high acclaim for BBC/HBO’s The Girl. The one-off TV movie studied Hitchcock’s infamous obsession with The Birds‘s leading lady Tippi Hendren (Sienna Miller). Hitchcock, on the other…
Upon departing the screening of Lincoln, I happened to overhear a conversation between a couple of fellow film journalists. It went something along the lines of, ‘For a Spielberg movie, it was decidedly Un-Spielbergian.’ Which got me thinking about the Civil War-centric behemoth I had finished watching mere moments earlier. Was it ‘Un-Spielbergian’? What constitutes…
In 2010 Kathryn Bigelow became the first female to win not only the Oscar for Best Director but also Best Motion Picture. By the end of the awards season The Hurt Locker had swept the board becoming a significant footnote in the dramatization of ‘The War on Terror’. Now with the beginning of another year and another awards season beckoning, Bigelow has…
Flight marks the first live-action feature outing for Robert Zemeckis in over a decade. Not since 2000’s Castaway has the director dealt with real locations and actors in the flesh, instead dedicating himself to CGI rendered fantasy romps in Polar Express and the like. However, this 2013 awards-season contender brings Zemeckis firmly back down to earth in more ways than…
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