9 Movies to Mend a BROKEN-HEART
As last week’s This Week in TFT revealed, I was supposed to write about the global financial crisis documentary INSIDE JOB for my next TFT article. Because of an important podcast release of my own — the 50th episode of THEATRE INTANGIBLE – and some personal drama, I missed the last screening of INSIDE JOB [...]
Is it Wrong to be too Scared to See Paranormal Activity?
So I was up early this morning having slept restlessly after watching the end of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ last night (no spoilers – suffice it to say that fans of Richard Dawkins and Thomas Merton may find themselves both satisfied; I certainly was). Cylons colonised my repose (for some reason the early models, one of whose [...]
5 Things You Should Do if You Want Your Movie to Last
This post was originally written by us for Filmmaker Magazine. You can see the original post here: Five Things You Should Do if You Want Your Movie to Last. For an ‘additional thing’ to make your film last go this week’s podcast: TFT 96 – Where the Wild Things Are / 5 Ways to Make [...]
Better the Devil You Know: What I Learned from Satan in the Movies
I’ve spent a monumentally pleasurable afternoon in the presence of Satan; in the form of the ridiculous and wonderful performance that Walter Huston (above) gives in ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’, a film about American history and the mythopoetics of the Yankee soul that deserves to be compared with ‘Citizen Kane’ (and not just because [...]
Roger Ebert's Death. Mine, too. And, if you don't want to feel left out: Yours as well.
Watch this before reading. Trust me: It will make you feel better. Roger Ebert is more than a writer about film – a good critic realises that understanding any art form requires more than a technical proficiency in explaining cinematography or editing or acting. The best critics know a little bit about everything – or [...]
Why Jett and I Have Free Tickets to the Movies
Because we walked out of this and they gave us free passes. We were busy. We had people to see. Things to do. The sun was shining. And by the time Jason Statham’s character had [UPLEASANT SPOILERS AHOY: DON'T READ ON IF YOU DON'T WANT TO] inserted a hot-tar cover shotgun into the backside of [...]
'Let the Right One In' Subtitle Travesty
Via @joblocom comes this excellent post by ‘Icons of Fright’ on what can only be described as a travesty in the U.S. DVD subtitling for fine Scandopire flick ‘Let the Right One In’: Let The Wrong Subtitles In To LET THE RIGHT ONE IN?! Let the ‘Icons of Fright’ post be a warning – always [...]
What Watchmen Creators Zack Snyder and David Hayter Could Have Learned From Peter Weir
Gareth and I have already gone into some depth analysing the myriad failures of the recent film ‘Watchmen’: The Film Talk – Part 52 – Watchmen But am prompted to add a last thought after reading this weekend a plea from ‘Watchmen’ screenwriter David Hayter to go see the film again so as to boost [...]
