Meet Black Widow

Marvel UK has released a nice featurette which focusses on the character of Black Widow. Up until now the character as portrayed by Scarlett Johansson has taken a secondary role in the building of th...

RoboCop Featurette – Man And Machine

As part of the publicity leading up to the release of the remake of RoboCop the film studio released a number of short behind the scenes features. The Man and Machine two-part feature takes us behind...

La Guarimba Film Festival

It’s always good to hear of a success story, especially one that happens against the odds. The short film About the resistance looks at what it took to create a film festival out of nothing. A ...

The History Of Title Design

There are aspects of the film production process that can be seen to be almost invisible to viewing public. Certain areas are taken for granted and not accorded the respect and admiration they are du...

The Wes Anderson Collection Part 4

With the fourth part of the video essays we come to my personal favourite, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou from 2004. I have very fond memories of watching the Jacques Cousteau documentaries which...

The Hidden Cuts in Hitchcock’s Rope

The Hitchcock film Rope has been hailed as a classic of film making for over half a century now.  At the time of release it was marketed as if it was a stage play. The gimmick was that it was shot as...

The Wes Anderson Collection Part 3

With the third of the video essays we come to the two thousand and one film The Royal Tenenbaums. A tale of a dysfunctional family of child prodigies who are brought together by their terminally ill ...

The Wes Anderson Collection Part 2

In the second of his video essays Mark Zoller Seitz continues his study of the films of Wes Anderson. for his sophomore effort Anderson moved on to the high school set Rushmore. The film marked the i...

The Wes Anderson Collection Part 1

Recently published after a well put together trailer was the book looking back at the career of Wes Anderson. Matt Zoller Seitz the film and TV critic and current Editor-in-chief at Rogerebert.com ha...