FEATURE ATTRACTIONS

By Iain Blair Acclaimed Irish director of photography, Seamus McGarvey BSC ASC BSC, has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and both nominations – for Atonement (2007) and Anna Karenina (2012) – came through collaborations with director...

By Michael Burns The Last Bus is a road trip movie with a difference. Starring Timothy Spall, the drama follows Tom, an elderly widower who takes a series of local bus journeys from John O’Groats, in Scotland, as he makes a poignant return to first home he shared with...

By Darek Kuźma Director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s ambitious take on the unbelievable-yet-true story about the father of two of the most accomplished athletes in the history of sport was a welcome challenge for veteran cinematographer Robert Elswit ASC.  Even if you are...

The trouble with remaking classic, much-loved movies, is that they simply might not live up to expectations. But, Steven Spielberg’s vivid re-imagining of the iconic West Side Story seems to have defied that sort of outcome. And then some. Critics have hailed the new...

The course of true love never did run smooth. Filmed on KODAK 35mm, and described as an exquisitely-crafted, nostalgic-hallucination, Licorice Pizza is the fictional story about Gary Valentine, a precocious, entrepreneurial high-schooler, and his unconquerable crush...

Director Roland Emmerich is no stranger to putting earth-shattering events on screen. The director of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 returns with another blockbuster disaster movie in which the moon itself is sent hurtling on a collision course to...

Si Bell • A Very British Scandal By Michael Burns A Very British Scandal, a three-part BBC/Amazon co-production by Blueprint Pictures, is writer Sarah Phelps’ story of how beautiful heiress Margaret Sweeny (Claire Foy) first falls madly in, then most definitely out,...

Bringing a harrowing real-life story to the screen demands the lightest possible touch of Hollywood’s usual hyperreality. Hulu's Dopesick, based on Beth Macy’s book, tackles the background to America’s opioid addiction crisis, and must walk that fine line between...

By Ron Prince Creating bold visual stylisations to depict a story involving issues surrounding rape culture, the mistreatment of women, not to mention racism and homophobia, but all on a low-budget, with precious little prep time and a tight schedule, called for no...

PLUS… AN EXCLUSIVE Q&A WITH REGINA KING By Ron Prince “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee…” is probably the most famous catchphrase of boxer Cassius Clay (later to become Muhammad Ali). The 22-year old pugilist prodigy uttered these classic words before...

By Ron Prince Although it had been a number of years since cinematographer Polly Morgan BSC ASC had shot using celluloid, she says coming back to film, for Paramount Picture’s A Quiet Place 2, ”was a complete joy.” “On a practical level, it was so refreshing to walk...