
MCM Comic Con Film Race, May 2016
I recently took part in the 60 hour MCM Comic Con Film Race challenge - Write, shoot and edit a film that is no longer than five minutes...

Cinema, the Extended Mind and Beyond
In The Extended Mind thesis, Andy Clark and David Chalmers draw attention to the idea that the mind isn’t ‘(all) in the head’ and that it...

Film School: A Graduate's Perspective
From October 2013 to November 2014, I attended the Met Film School based at Ealing Studios, London for a Masters in filmmaking,...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
‘The greatest gladiator match in the history of the world’, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has finally ‘superhero landed’ onto silver...

Issues in Race in Ratatouille “An artist can come from anywhere”
In Film Comedy, Geoff King wrote ‘race is another arena in which comedy can function as a safety net, permitting the use of material that...

Addicted to Cinema
‘Watching a film is like having a daydream. It operates on portions of your mind that are only reached by our dreams or dramas, and there...

Only God Forgives
“I could have easily made a much safer choice, a formula that had easily worked before. To avoid doing that, I had to go away and...

Unmasking the Superhero Movie
“Everybody loves a hero, people line up for 'em, cheer for them, scream their names, and years later tell how they stood in the rain for...

The Apartment (1960) - Retrospective Review
‘Movie-wise, there has never been anything like “The Apartment” love-wise, laugh-wise or otherwise-wise!’ This bold claim was featured on...

IMAX – an ‘immersive’ experience and Beyond
‘We cannot make our eyes better than they have been made, but the movie camera we can perfect forever’ - Dziga Vertov (1923) With IMAX,...