This month’s Sight and Sound dropped through my letterbox this morning, and in it contained their once-a-decade Top 10 Films of All Time, as voted for by critics and filmmakers. If you’ve been living as a recluse in your own personal Xanadu, Orson Welles, who’s been number one for the past half century, got Citizen […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Michael Owens and Randy Goux as well as stereographer Graham Clark about their work on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter… “I had hired Method Vancouver to work on Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar [2011] and was finishing that up as the team led by Randy [Goux] was working on Abraham […]

The Aggression Scale, 2012. Directed by Steven C. Miller. Starring Ray Wise, Dana Ashbrook, Derek Mears, Boyd Kestner and Ryan Hartwig. SYNOPSIS: When a group of armed men attack a family looking for stolen money, the children hit back. Not having seen any trailers or read any reviews, it was refreshing to go into this […]

The Reverend, 2011. Directed by Neil Jones. Starring Stuart Brennan, Tamer Hassan, Rutger Hauer, Emily Booth, Doug Bradley, Simon Phillips and Shane Richie. SYNOPSIS: A newly appointed Reverend uses a challenge put to him by God and The Devil to clean up a supposedly idyllic village. Some films are great, whilst others are terrible. Some […]

The Dark Knight Rises, 2012. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. SYNOPSIS: After an eight year self-imposed exile following the death of Harvey Dent, The Batman must return to face the threat of Bane and the mystery of Selina Kyle. Batman […]

When Twentieth Century Fox put the brakes on the 24 feature film back in March, it was starting to look like Kiefer Sutherland’s counter-terrorist machine Jack Bauer may have choked out his last bad guy and given his last word. The official line was ‘budgetary concerns’ and ‘scheduling issues’, with sources indicating that Fox wanted […]

Chris Cooper presents his five essential Christian Bale films… Some people don’t like Christian Bale. They heard his rant at Shane Hurlbut on the set of Terminator Salvation and decided that he was a nutter who lacked respect. Or they don’t like his gravelly ‘Batman voice’. I am not one of these people. I see […]

Trevor Hogg chats to production visual effects supervisor Jim Berney, visual effects producer Greg Baxter; and visual effects supervisors Matt Dessero, Marshall Krasser, and Berj Bannayan about bringing a dystopian Chicago to the big screen… “I hadn’t work with Lionsgate or Summit before,” explains VFX Producer Greg Baxter (Jack the Giant Slayer) who was recruited […]

Trevor Hogg chats with film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, production visual effects supervisor and second unit director Rob Legato, and first assistant director Adam Somner as well as visual effects supervisors Joe Farrell and Marko Forker about travelling around the world with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio without leaving New York City….  The Wolf of Wall […]

Trevor Hogg chats with senior visual effects supervisor Dan Glass; visual effects supervisors Stéphane Ceretti, Matt Dessero, Geoffrey Hancock, Alessandro Cioffi, Florian Gellinger, Angela Barson, Clark Parkhurst, Russell Earl and Falk Gärtner; and executive visual effects producer Ismat Zaidi about their work on Cloud Atlas.  Be warned, there are spoilers…  “In a strange way our work relationship […]