We look at a number of film-related topics in greater detail, featuring interviews with directors and also articles that examine the world of film-making in the Midlands
Sitting across from Michaël Dudok de Wit is uncannily like the feeling you get when watching his films. Kind-eyed and generous, he has the same disarming ease of manner that makes his animati...
‘Who on earth would pose next to a clothes bank, looking like he just got dragged out of the house by his bandmate, halfway though cutting his fringe with his nailclipper?’ Jason William...
Things get off to a bumpy start in our interview with Alice Lowe - the West Midlands actor, writer and director, whose debut feature Prevenge has been garnering acclaim at various festivals t...
I have a theory that those who align their work to Surrealism – whether artists, writers, filmmakers, poets, or academics - are born and not made. To give an example, if you look at David Lyn...
November 23rd 2009 is a day that will live in infamy for Birmingham historians. That was the day that then architecture minister Margaret Hodge rejected calls to list Birmingham Central Libra...
The notion of making a documentary about the loss of sight seems almost perverse. Film is a visual medium, one celebrated for stunning cinematography and striking composition. To then use tha...
Crime stories are always informed by where they’re set. Their often bleak surroundings feed into the drama, infecting everything from character to atmosphere. Think the derelict London Dockla...
It’s called the tatami shot. The camera is fixed on a short tripod, the lens positioned at waist height and the actors sit on the floor, level with the viewer’s eye line, to give the impressi...
How impeccably arranged and imprisoned those unhatched eggs seem. Incubated for show and posterity in a drawing room cabinet, these symbols of nascent growth are the first things we see in Fe...
Hyper local Midlands station Big Centre TV is trying to find its feet on Freeview. Luke Jerromes visited the station's HQ. ‘I bet this would make a brilliant start to your article,’ my...
With her debut feature Appropriate Behaviour, writer-director-star Desiree Akhavan has made some serious waves. She talks sex, comedy and manic pixie girls with Matthew Tilt. There’s v...
Bennett Miller’s new film Foxcatcher features a startling turn from Steve Carell as millionaire John du Pont, arrested in 1996 for the murder of athlete Dave Schultz. David Baldwin talked to ...
