★★★☆☆ Dir. Danny Boyle (2013) Danny Boyle takes some cues from Alfred Hitchcock obsession with memory and John Frankenheimer‘s 60′s thrillers to craft a ludicrously twisty but undeniably enjoyable memory puzzle. Although it is definitely the director’s least spectacular entry in a while, is certainly never dull. James McAvoy plays Simon, an art dealer who has taken a nasty crack on the …
★★☆☆☆ Dir. Todd Phillips (2013) Todd Phillips’ box office winner The Hangover was a surprise smash back in 2009 with its corrosive humour and a good retracing structure. Three friends try to find a missing groom the day before his wedding day in Las Vegas after a night on the town. It was simple, often shocking …
★★★★☆ Dir. Ben Rivers (2012) Ben Rivers revisits Jake Williams from his 2006 short film This Is My Land in this 88 minute near wordless portrait of a man living in the Scottish wilderness. Rivers’ flickering vintage Bolex 16mm simply captures a series of set up sequences with this real life wilderness man in grainy black and white, ranging …
★★★★☆ Dir: Steven Soderbergh (2013) The very public retirement the outspoken, genre bending Steven Soderbergh came with the release of two films; This years Behind the Candelabra (a bio pic of an intense period of the life of composer Liberace) and, true to the directors eclectic stylings Side Effects which is a sort of social commentary laden thriller about the over medication of the …
★★★★★ Dir: Tobias Lindholm (2013) Tobias Lindholm has already delivered one incredible piece of work this year, helping out Thomas Vinterberg in penning the rather excellent The Hunt. That slow burning film, taught with uncertainty and wonderfully handed by Vinterberg in the directors chair, is now neck and neck with Lindholm’s own brilliant slow burning exercise in tension with the …
In light of this months release of Man of Steel, here are a couple of brilliant Superman III posters from Poland we thought you might like. Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Eduardo Sánchez, Gregg Hale, Adam Wingard (2012) Last year’s surprisingly good horror anthology V/H/S gave 5 directors free rein with digital cameras to tie together story concerned with the haunting and creepy quality of a lost medium through tried and tested horror tropes. The result was a genuinely scary short film compilation. The good … Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Jukka Kärkkäinen (2012) Pertii Kurikka’s Name Day are a Finnish punk band you may never of heard of. The autistic temperamental lead singer Pertti Kurikka and front man Karl Aalto, and the Down’s syndrome rhythm section of Sami Helle and Toni Välitalo have a little more to rage about than the government and revolt. Their afflictions and their … Continue reading »
We Buy Your Kids get a little murky with Jeff Nichol’s Mud. Continue reading »
César Moreno‘s wonderful screen print for the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs. Continue reading »
★★★★☆ Dir: Eduardo Sánchez (2012) When Ed Sánchez and Dan Myrick blew open the film world in 1999 with the phenomenal The Blair Witch Project nobody could ever have guessed the influence which the film would have and the path which the modern horror film would take in the short 15 years after. A tiny film, shot badly on … Continue reading »
We’ve broken the mould here at Projector Magazine for Adam Spizak, whose wonderful work for Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Walking Dead & Californication begs to be seen. Take a look at the posters in the gallery below and be sure to head over and check out the rest of his fantastic work. You can also get a glimpse inside of … Continue reading »
