Trevor Hogg chats with film editor William Goldenberg about working with Ben Affleck and the challenges of assembling Argo… “Ben [Affleck] was a much more sophisticated director on Argo [2012] than he was on Gone Baby Gone [2007],” observes William Goldenberg who assembled the directorial debut as well as the third effort from the Hollywood […]

Nowhere to Go, 1958. Directed by Seth Holt.Starring George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Lionel Jeffries. SYNOPSIS: After breaking out of prison, a thief and conman attempts to flee the country only to end up on the run in the Welsh countryside. Don’t expect to sympathise with a man like Paul […]

360, 2011. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.Starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Lucia Siposová, Ben Foster, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: An international look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in physical relationships, that ultimately intersect and interact. . 360 is a drama of ambitious scope, that skips through themes […]

Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy, 2011 Directed by Rob Heydon. Starring Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd, Carlo Rota, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Natalie Brown, Olivia Andrup,  Stephen McHattie, Dean McDermott and Colin Mochrie. SYNOPSIS: A drug runner discovers true love and a whole lot of trouble as he attempts to become a dealer of ecstasy pills. The movie opens with Lloyd Buist (Adam Sinclair) narrating about the […]

Lincoln, 2012 Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, Jackie Earle Haley, John Hawkes, Bruce McGill and Tim Blake Nelson. SYNOPSIS: President Abraham Lincoln attempts to amend the American Constitution to abolish slavery before the Civil War comes to an end. Long in development, Steven Spielberg finally brings his Abraham Lincoln […]

Trevor Hogg chats with filmmaker Rob Heydon about his feature length debut along with actors Adam Sinclair and Billy Boyd… Irvine Welsh and Rob Heydon “After seeing the film Trainspotting [1996] and The Acid House [1998] in cinemas in Canada with a Scottish writer friend, Paul McCafferty who eventually co-wrote the screenplay for Ecstasy [2011],” […]

Pitch Perfect, 2012. Directed by Jason Moore.Starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Skylar Astin, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Ester Dean, Ben Platt, and Adam DeVine. SYNOPSIS: A feisty coed joins a collegiate a cappella group and upgrades their song selection for the 21st century during the run-up to a major competition. When I saw the initial […]

Trevor Hogg chats with filmmaker Nisha Pahuja as well as producers Ed Barreveld and Cornelia Principe about the tremendous effort required to bring The World Before Her to the big screen…  “I’ve always been interested in international stories,” explains Producer Ed Barreveld as to how he became involved with The World Before Her (2012).  “In 1997 […]

Jack Reacher, 2012. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo, Werner Herzog and Jai Courtney. SYNOPSIS: When a military sniper kills five victims, homicide investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) is brought in to crack the case. I can’t really think of a Tom Cruise film that I have disliked. There’s […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Jack Fisk, who was born 67 years ago today, about the craft of production design, and his collaborations with Terrence Malick, David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson… “My mother was artistic in a time that didn’t encourage women to take on a career of their own so she always had me […]