Side by Side, 2012. Written and Directed by Christopher Kenneally. SYNOPSIS: A documentary investigating the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. The struggle between the old and the new is something which has plagued cinema since the beginning; colour vs. black and white, sound vs. silent and widescreen vs. fullscreen. […]

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 isn’t […]

Luke Owen reviews the final instalment of the Rage of the Dinobots mini-series…“DINOBOT WAR! GRIMLOCK leads the DINOBOTS against SHOCKWAVE’s troops—and the results won’t be pretty! With SWOOP under SER-KET’s control, it’s an all-or-nothing battle of DINOBOT versus PREDACON—with the fate of CYBERTRON hanging on every punch, blast, jab, and bite!”If you read my review of Transformers […]

Luke Owen reviews the penultimate issue of Chris Ryall’s The Hollows… “The Hollows are closing in on Kobayashi, and he’s running out of time to help Lani, Urp, and the rest of the survivors!“ I’ve been very praising of Chris Ryall’s The Hollows. The story has been quite intriguing (if a little bland), the pacing […]

Luke Owen reviews issue #10 of IDW’s Godzilla… Earth is ravaged by the Space Monsters! With Earth’s kaiju trapped on Monster Island, the planet is seemingly doomed. Until Boxer decides to undo all of his hard work and stage the biggest prison break of all time! I feel like a stuck record now with my […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Lucy Alibar about her play being transformed into the Oscar darling Beasts of the Southern Wild, as well as a new project with horror maestro Guillermo del Toro…The Academy Awards were expected to copy the BAFTA nominations; however, the Hollywood event decided to take a left turn and honour an independent film about […]

Gary Collinson reviews the first issue of IDW’s relaunched G.I. Joe… “YO JOE! The truth is out: the world knows the G.I. JOE team is real. Now Duke leads his squad directly into the public eye, confronting COBRA on American soil!“ With the cinema release of G.I. Joe: Retaliation now just around the corner, it […]

With A Good Day to Die Hard currently in cinemas, Tom Jolliffe revisits the original Die Hard… The fifth Die Hard has now exploded into cinemas. It’s been 25 years since the film world was introduced to Officer John McClane. The latest instalment has been pounded with a barrage of criticism and undisputedly called the […]

Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective…Brazil is the film that best represents the pinnacle of Gilliam’s career, and if not it would certainly feature in any such discussion. If I am permitted to express my subjective opinion, then I would land on the side of it being his masterpiece, comparable to both Orson Welles’ […]

Luke Owen reviews the second episode of Black Mirror… Last week’s episode was an incredibly sombre and slow paced show that was centred around one performance. This week’s episode, White Bear, however was a completely different kettle of fish – which is what makes Black Mirror such an interesting show. White Bear was a visceral, […]