The Girl from the South, 2012.Directed by José Luis García.Starring Lim Su-kyung, Alejandro, and José Luis García. SYNOPSIS: While attending a communist sponsored youth conference held in North Korea, a member of the Argentinian delegation encounters a South Korean activist who captures the attention of the media and all those in attendance with her message […]

Leviathan, 2012.Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel.Starring Declan Conneely, Johnny Gatcombe, Adrian Guillette, Brian Jannelle, Clyde Lee, Arthur Smith, and Christopher Swampstead. SYNOPSIS:Off the coast of New England commercial fishermen apply their trade in the same waters where one of the most famous creatures in literature roamed, Moby Dick. Though it is stated in the title of the documentary no biblical […]

Liam Trim reviews Episode 1 of the new BBC 2 series Parade’s End… Parade’s End has been billed as the television event of the autumn by those in the know. On paper it certainly boasts an impressive creative team, with acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard returning to television after an absence of over twenty years to […]

FLICKERING MYTH’S TOP 10 FILMS OF ALL TIME: EVER. IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD : Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Christopher Nolan To steal Sight and Sound’s idea In honour of Sight and Sound’s once-a-decade poll of the world’s reviewers, critics, directors and general movie folk to select the greatest […]

Inspired by Bleak House where a prolonged battle over a will results in the disputed inheritance being consumed by legal costs, author Lynn Messina explores the drawn out business of turning a book into a Hollywood production. Whereas ‘bleak’ is a word which accurately describe the tales intricately woven by Charles Dickens, the book title […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Emmy Award-nominee Angus Bickerton about the craft of visual effects, the founding of a VFX facility, and his love for reading books… “I always wanted to be a pilot when I was younger,” admits British Visual Effects Supervisor Angus Bickerton (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). “There were reasons I couldn’t […]

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 […]

Tom Jolliffe mans up in preparation for The Expendables 2, taking in an overdose of explosive action cinema with ‘The Chuck Norris Rampage’… Chuck Norris is brilliant. Chuck Norris doesn’t do push ups, he just pushes the Earth down! His action man persona and his on-screen invincibility have become internet legend with thousands of different […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Emmy Award-winning VFX Producer Sophie Leclerc about her directorial project Happy Downloadday… Following in the footsteps of Tron [1982] where human beings become entwined with software programs is the science fiction tale Happy Downloadday; the short film depicts a dystopian society where computer generated children are not allowed a human body […]

Luke Graham reviews the final episode of Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23’s first series… The season finale to Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, entitled Shitagi Nashi after a fictional Asian manga that features in the plot, was a compelling affair. Between holidays, graduation and searching for work, it has taken me […]