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
And it came to pass that, as the summer of 2018 rolled ominously into view, with phrases like ‘peak blockbuster season’ and ‘brand synergy’ ringing in his ears like plague bells, this writer ...
Over the last ten years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has grown from a single post-credits scene after 2008’s Iron Man to a media juggernaut. And whenever there’s success, there are always p...
Director Dick Carruthers knows something about pressure. When you’ve spent your career making live concert films for the likes of Oasis, The White Stripes, The Killers and Aerosmith, the...
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...
