Tag: filmmaking

As defined by the Oxford Dictionary, a documentary is a film “that provides a factual record or report.” What the dictionary does not say is that an effective documentarian takes those raw facts and arranges them in such a way as to clarify a point or to provide additional weight and understanding to the topic at hand. This makes the documentary nearly as subjective as a fictional work …

At the core of every protagonist in this genre is the seed of origin, that thing, that career, that idea that they either love so much that they dare not take their attention away from it, or a past so traumatically unsatisfying that they can’t reinvent themselves quickly enough.

The European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the nominations for the 30th European Film Awards on 4th November 2017. A few familiar films currently…

It occurred to me while watching ADDIcted, written and directed by Dan Jenski, that there are not many films these days that deal with the…

They fracture time and space, reference our libraries of mythology and ethics, and take us far outside – or inside – of our hopes, our dreams and nightmares.

The Greek and I close out our series of 50 films for Halloween with a heavy dose of family values. Light relief? Not if you…

I’m not here, as a man, to endorse the poor treatment of women, only to scan over how it does form a strong source of…

It was a “wet ungenial summer” in Geneva when the 18-year-old daughter of a political philosopher and a feminist author suggested to her lover and…

This will not include the movie High Tension that was featured in last year’s Halloween 50, but delivers another 5 films in the same vein…

Multiple personalities. Behaving inappropriately. Getting into someone else’s bed. Wielding an axe. Watching people from afar. Murderous tendencies. Kidnapping girls. What a bunch of creeps….

As a gay male who loves watching horror movies, there is one thing that keeps occurring to me. I’ve noticed that there aren’t many horror…

We’re getting closer to Halloween, and it’s a perfect time to indulge in a wealth of horror films that put you in a suitably spooky…

By Bianca Garner “Believe me, you don’t want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.” These words uttered by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) in The Silence of…

I knew a little about the true story of Christa Worthington, a fashion writer who was involved in a coastal affair, before being brutally murdered….