INTERVIEW: Emmy-Winning Composer Nathan Barr on ‘Halston’ and his TV Career
Nathan Barr is a prolific composer of scores for both film and television. His film scores include The House with a Clock in its Walls (2018) and The Turning, Uncle Frank and The Hunt (all from 2020). His work for television includes; True Blood, Hemlock…
REVIEW: Luca (2021)
The eighth of March 2020 is a day that lives in my own personal infamy – I went to the cinema and watched two movies – the Sad-Dad Ben Affleck opus The Way Back (and what a year he’s had since) and Pixar’s Onward. A…
TV REVIEW: Loki Episodes 1-2 (2021)
As someone who went into the first two episodes of Loki completely cold (I had seen no teasers, trailers, clips or even any images really), I did not know what to expect. Of course, many of us guessed that we would be picking up Loki’s…
INTERVIEW: Oscar-Nominated Composer Volker Bertelmann on his Film & TV Career
Since being Oscar-nominated for his score for Lion in 2017, Volker Bertelmann has become a prolific composer of film and television scores including: 2017 – 5 films/TV shows including: The Current War (dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) – our review TV BBC/HBO: Gunpowder (creators: Ronan Bennett, Daniel…
INTERVIEW: ‘Ted Lasso’ Hair & Makeup Designer Nicky Austin
Apple TV’s Ted Lasso has captured the hearts of several locked-down nations and provided that comforting cuppa tea and baby-pink box of homemade shortbread that we’ve all sorely needed in the last year or so. The costumes, hair and make up all combine to help…
TCMFF 2021: Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Stewart in early Anti-Fascist Works
Black Legion (1937) and The Mortal Storm (1940) It is always fascinating and astonishing to look at works of art that come out of war time or political turmoil while the events are still ongoing. If you look at the war films made during World War…
INTERVIEW: ‘What Lies West’ Writer & Director Jessica Ellis
[This interview originally featured in Issue #1 of our magazine which celebrated directorial debuts] Jessica Ellis is a writer based in Los Angeles, mainly working with her writing partner Nick Sinnott. What Lies West is her feature film debut, a personal story based where she…
TV REVIEW: Shrill Season 3 (2021)
Shrill felt like it was a groundbreaking show when its first season launched in March 2019, with the Fat Babe Pool Party in particular, causing a stir on social media. The talk surrounding season two was much more muted and there hasn’t been much hype…
It’s Called Fashion, Look it Up!
As today is the first Monday in May, we should be enjoying the red carpet photographs from the Met Gala, one of the biggest fashion events of the year. Unfortunately last year’s event, which had one of the most exciting sounding concepts in years –…
REVIEW: Things Heard & Seen (2021)
As soon as there is a whiff of a period Gothic-inspired horror on the horizon, I’m gonna come running straight toward that haunted house, instead of away from it. So, you could say that I’m the target audience for Netflix’s latest, Things Heard & Seen,…
How We Made True History of the Kelly Gang
After premiering at Toronto International Film Festival in September 2019 and moving onto Glasgow Film Festival in February 2020, True History of the Kelly Gang was finally released in the US on April 24, 2020 (exactly a year ago). Unfortunately this release was on VOD…
REVIEW: Boys From County Hell (2021)
British and Irish genre comedies are going to be under the shadow of Edgar Wright’s seminal rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead (2004) for some time to come, even though we’re approaching that film’s *cough* twentieth anniversary (I’m sorry). Joe Cornish’s less well-known Attack the Block…
TV REVIEW: Shadow and Bone (2021)
Leigh Bardugo’s beloved Grishaverse series, which started with the Shadow and Bone Trilogy (published 2012-2014) and continued with the paired books Six of Crows (2015)/Crooked Kingdom (2016) and King of Scars (2019)/Rule of Wolves (2021) has now been adapted into a big-budget Netflix show, hoping…
