Amy Flinders profiles Scottish director Lynne Ramsay in the second of a two-part feature… read part one here. With three critically acclaimed shorts and a mantelpiece full of awards, Ramsay won another cluster of prizes, including a BAFTA for most promising newcomer, for her first feature Ratcatcher (1999). When asked how the idea of Ratcatcher […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of visionary director Robert Zemeckis in the third of a three part feature… read part one and part two. Adapting Winston Groom’s story of a simple-minded man who meets various historical figures from the twentieth century, while wandering in and out of the life of his childhood sweetheart, served as […]

Amy Flinders profiles Scottish director Lynne Ramsay in the first of a two-part feature… Despite only having two features and a handful of short films to her name, Lynne Ramsay has managed to captivate audiences and critics alike and is well respected as a prolific and innovative director. It is perhaps the inspired combination of […]

Nowhere Boy, 2009. Directed by Sam Taylor Wood. Starring Aaron Johnson, Kristen Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff. SYNOPSIS: This is the story of teenage John Lennon and his three loves – his music, his Mum, and his Aunt. The sign of a really good film is when you walk out of the cinema and into […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of visionary director Robert Zemeckis in the second of a three part feature… read part one here. When Bob Gale wondered what it would have been like to have been a high school classmate of his father, Robert Zemeckis decided to develop the concept with him. The main character was […]

Sin Nombre, 2009. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Starring Édgar Flores, Paulina Gaitán, Kristyan Ferrer and Tenoch Huerta. SYNOPSIS: A Honduran girl and a Mexican gang-banger undertake a perilous trek towards a new life across the border in the United States. The feature debut of American cinematographer Cary Joji Fukunaga, Sin Nombre presents a bleak […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of visionary director Robert Zemeckis in the first of a three part feature… “In my family there was no art,” revealed Chicago-born filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. “There was no music, there were no books, there was no theatre. I grew up in a very working class, lower middle class, blue collar […]

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, 2006. Directed by Richard Donner. Starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman. SYNOPSIS: The 1980 classic is reedited to its original director’s vision. Having heard of this film’s very existence when it was released in 2006, I found myself longing to own a copy of it. A fan […]

Jon Dudley explores the notion of national cinema… Although cinema is a worldwide spectacle that can be enjoyed by billions of people, there seems to be a way to define a films origins and values, and who or where it represents. It would be all too easy to walk into any cinema and identify the […]