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Jonathan McCalmont

The Banshee Chapter

What is the job of a director? Some would argue that it is principally a managerial position that takes the work of many different people and combines them to create a singular
January 22, 2014

Winter of Discontent

Sergei Eisenstein’s immortal Battleship Potemkin begins with sailors eating maggoty food and ends with many of those exact same sailors cheering the revolution as their fellows decide to join them in open
January 7, 2014

Upstream Colour

Shane Carruth’s debut film Primer offered audiences an experience as intoxicating as it was baffling. Made for almost no money at all, the film told of a pair of nerds who invented
December 28, 2013

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

There have been rumours of an Alan Partridge film for nearly as long as there have been Alan Partridge TV series. Trapped in development hell, the project changed and changed again as
November 29, 2013

Silence

One of the great tragedies of 21st Century culture is the fact that the ‘Cinematic Experience’ is actually little more than a means of badgering people into paying for bigger screens, higher
November 8, 2013

Creepshow

While Marvel and DC have always dominated the market for superhero comics, the American market for non-superhero comics used to belong to a company known as Entertainment Comics, EC for short. Unlike
October 21, 2013

Kenji Mizoguchi – Clockwork Perfection

Kenji Mizoguchi began his filmmaking career in the 1920s. Child of middle-class parents trapped on a downward social trajectory, Mizoguchi’s schooling was blighted by illness and periods of poverty so abject that
October 18, 2013

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

As a medium traditionally dominated by the visual, film usually engages with ideas by weaving them into the fabric of a narrative. In the majority of cases, these narratives are fictitious and
October 7, 2013

Citadel

People often talk about horror films purely in terms of the effects that they have upon their audiences. However, while an ability to make audiences jump may account for the success of
September 25, 2013
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