Isis is using techniques plundered from movies, video games and news channels to spread its message. Who is masterminding the operation and what is the best way to counter it? In 1941, Hollywood director Frank Capra was commissioned to make a series of propaganda films for the US war effort
Isis is using techniques plundered from movies, video games and news channels to spread its message.
Ticketholders for two shows receive email telling them their seats have been changed to accommodate film crews Alexis Petridis reviews Before the Dawn Kate Bush: the queen of art-pop who defied her critics Kate Bush is reportedly planning a concert film based on her London comeback shows, Before the Dawn. Fans were apparently asked to change seats at the Eventim Apollo theatre in order to …
This week’s best DVD releases Upstream Colour Blu-ray & DVD, Metrodome First acts are overrated. All too often, the first third of a movie is a narrative non-starter – a barren storytelling tundra hospitable only to weak expositional dialogue and lazy stock characters, easing us into a film like toddlers steered into naptime by a particularly over-explanatory lullaby. Taking the rare editorial …
Against Hollywood wisdom, a new survey reveals that movies with better gender equality don’t lose money compared to male-oriented fare Cinema programmers beware: feminist films can flunk the Bechdel test Movies which pass the “Bechdel test” are just as likely to be profitable than those which do not, contrary to received thinking in Hollywood, according to a comprehensive new survey .
‘Why audiences might prefer to watch his oeuvre – a 40-year mass of frequently explicit sex films – at home rather than at the multiplex, is an enigma that may never be unravelled’ Though few of his films have secured UK cinema releases since his notorious sex-and-sandals epic Caligula sent British authorities into the mother of all censorship tizzes in 1979, self-proclaimed Italian “master of …
‘In his version of events, each and every character speaks like a race commentator, clarifying events as they happen and saying things like “Ready? I’ve been waiting for this my whole life…”‘ Reading this on mobile?
‘Man and machine do battle in Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess, but only in the least dramatic context imaginable: a 1980s tech convention’ Reading this on mobile? Click here to view Spare a thought for the physical media purists as pop culture intensifies its blossoming courtship with online streaming.
Lifeforce | Dial M For Murder | Phantom Of The Opera | Mabuse The Gambler | Breaking Bad | Nosferatu | Arrow Reading this on mobile? Click here to view This year has seen many bigger companies appear to lose interest in the Blu-ray market, with no big box set or restoration projects to match last year’s Hitchcock or Universal Horror collections. Worse yet, the annoying and worrying trend of …
Director James Cameron says the movies will be shot together and released between 2016 and 2018