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Exclusive Interview with McLaren director Roger Donaldson

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Paul Risker chats with McLaren director Roger Donaldson… “Every movie is different” says filmmaker Roger Donaldson. “There are always so many things to keep you interested and so I’m not bored yet.” The story of racing driver, constructor and engineer Bruce McLaren has become the primary focus of Donaldson. It is one that has seen […]

Exclusive Interview: Director D.J. Caruso on xXx: Return of Xander Cage

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Anghus Houvouras chats with xXx: Return of Xander Cage director D.J. Caruso… xXx: Return of Xander Cage is a movie that surpassed my expectations when it was released earlier this year. Like many, there was an ounce or two of skepticism after Revolution dusted off the franchise from the early 2000’s which launched with an […]

70th Cannes Film Festival Interview – The Rider Director Chloe Zhao

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Sara Hemrajani chats with The Rider director Chloe Zhao… Beijing-born filmmaker Chloe Zhao returns to the Directors’ Fortnight (La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) at Cannes with The Rider, a soulful and intimate portrait of a young South Dakota cowboy struggling to let go of his rodeo champion past after suffering a major head injury. Based on […]

Exclusive Interview – John Wilson talks about Zenobi Software, unreleased titles and whether we’ll see the Balrog on the ZX Spectrum Next

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Villordsutch talks with John Wilson (The Balrog) about Zenobi Software… There was a time when us gamers didn’t require ultra-real graphics delivered in 4K resolution, nor truth be told did we actually require graphics, for our days were occupied with text-based adventure games and here we lost real time. Reading lines of an unfolding story […]

Exclusive: Breaking down Showtime’s Dark Net score with composer Justin Melland

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Justin Melland has scored documentaries that have been Oscar nominated, Sundance award winning and critically acclaimed, covering every topic from exposing the hidden epidemic of Lyme disease to people on spiritual journeys and the sacred spaces they are led to. So when Melland found out Vocativ, a media and technology company producing Showtime’s Dark Net, […]

Exclusive Interview: Alien: Covenant star Michael Fassbender

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Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant opens in the UK this Friday, and in the build up to the release Flickering Myth Thomas Harris was fortunate enough to speak to some of the cast about their roles in the hotly-anticipated sci-fi horror. Yesterday we brought you interviews with Katherine Waterston (Daniels), Danny McBride (Tennessee) and Billy Crudup […]

Exclusive interview with Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd

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Paul Risker chats with Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd… From the theatre and opera stage, director William Oldroyd has emerged as a filmmaking talent, named BAFTA’S ‘Brit to watch’ in 2016. His theatre work comprises adaptations of the works of Sartre, Beckett and Shakespeare, while his opera credits include work in Portugal as well as […]

Exclusive Interview with Julia Ducournau, director of Raw

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Thomas Harris chats with Raw director Julia Ducournau… There’s currently an unprecedented buzz around Julia Ducournau’s feminist, cannibal-come-coming-of-age horror, Raw. It helps in part that during its debut screening at Toronto film festival last year, it was met by audience members fainting, vomiting and a collective sea of shock gasps. Rather proudly, I was not one […]

Behind the Music of Halo Wars 2: An Interview with composers Brian Lee White, Brian Trifon and Gordy Haab

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We chat with Brian Lee White, Brian Trifon and Gordy Haab about their work on Halo Wars 2… One of the most buzzed about video games of 2017 has been Halo Wars 2 with The Guardian calling it an “Exciting revival of the real-time strategy game” and PC Advisor going on to say “It does […]

Exclusive Interview: Cinematographer Don Burgess on Allied and working with Robert Zemeckis

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We chat with cinematographer Don Burgess about Allied and working with director Robert Zemeckis… Talk about your relationship with director Robert Zemeckis. My relationship with Bob Zemeckis goes all the way back to Back to the Future II. So, we’ve made a lot of movies together, I can’t remember, I think it’s like ten films […]