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Film/Animation

Tyrannosaur

October 18, 2011

It’s a violent place, the cinema. Film is a media that’s made for capturing things that move dynamically. It’s why slapstick flourished in the early days and why CGI monsters continue to slug it out and spill their shiny pixels across our screens from one opening weekend to the next. Tyrannosaur is a study of

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Black Swan Posters by La Boca

January 12, 2011

Hmmm. Just checked out the beautiful posters for the Darren Aronofsky film, Black Swan by the rabble over at La Boca. The film is released in the UK on 11th February and the soundtrack is from the man Clint Mansell. Stunning type and illustration. Hats off!

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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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‘Wholetrain’ Graff Film Screening with Director Florian Gaag

November 29, 2010

After the success of the Street Art Exhibition at the Herbert Gallery a few months back (did anybody else feel a little uncomfortable with local gray haired councillors getting their grubby little mits over a ‘street’ event with fuckin dull intro speeches? ) the Herbert is seemingly all over the graff culture like a rash

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Roots to Shoots – Short Films Night

November 23, 2010

This Thursday 25th November, Taylor Johns in the Canal Basin will be hosting a night of short films. They’re encouraging media students to come along and showcase their work. I for one will be there to check out the local talent. You should too! Find all the info here on their Facebook page. It’s only

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A Rant: A review of Alien Vs Predator: Requiem

November 19, 2010

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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Film: Psycho @ Warwick Arts Centre

June 16, 2010

Hitchcocks monumental and notorious piece of film making comes to Warwick Arts centre tonight (Wed 16 June). Still pretty terrifying after all these years, as Phoenix real-estate secretary Marion Crane (Leigh) picks the wrong place to spend a night: The Bates Motel, run by a peculiar man and his crotchety old ‘mother’. The shower scene

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Warwick Arts Centre present American: The Bill Hicks Story

June 11, 2010

Libertarian, outlaw, shaman, smoker, toker, romantic, hallucinogen ambassador, philosopher, preacher, genius… Bill Hicks was always something other than a comedian. His death from cancer in 1994 deprived the world of arguably the most iconic and probing voice in American culture of the period. Cleverly shunning a conventional talking-heads approach, American: The Bill Hicks Story uses

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