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Brian Harley

Calling The Shots: Independent Film-making in Coventry (Part Two)

December 19, 2010

PART TWO: So Call The Shots, the unique forum under which local film-makers could network and collaborate had expired, exposing a deficient, isolated scene, inhabited by creative refugees and struggling, aspiring film-makers. However, Wood and Pinches were defiant, certain that Call The Shots could still play a valuable role in Coventry’s film-making, they set about plotting its comeback. (Cue Rocky Theme). Just a

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Calling The Shots: Independent Film-making in Coventry (Part One)

December 19, 2010

PART ONE: Director Robert Altman once said that film-making is a chance to live many lifetimes. With this single remark, Altman sent forth what is arguably one of the most laconic endorsements for film-making ever, in which he refers not only to the subject matter of each film, but to the lives and times that revolve

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My Dad: The Binman-Director

December 13, 2010

  A few months after I was born in 1979, my dad, Bernard, and my uncle Jim made a short horror film called The Phantom in the Mirror, which they shot on Super 8 and edited in camera as they went along. The film spins a familiar yarn, about a haunted mirror which consumes the

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A Rant: A review of Alien Vs Predator: Requiem

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I shouldn’t really waste my time writing a review for this film. After all, to write about something is to dignify it somehow, bestow it with some kind of cinematic significance. But sadly, it’s all I can do to expel the immense anger this movie fills me with. Let me make it clear straight away,

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