Is the current so-called ‘golden age’ of music videos actually a dark age of regression for the form? Musings on the twenty-first century music video. It is often stated (particularly on the internet) that the 2010s have become a golden age of sorts for music video, as a result of ever-heightening production values and the […]
This morning Tokyo time, or afternoon/evening US time, Netflix unexpectedly released The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah, 2018), following no long marketing campaign, no press junkets, no big premiere, and no advance critics’ reviews. The film appears to be a more traditional follow-up to the original Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008) than 2016 sequel 10 Cloverfield Lane […]
With the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone-shot latest feature, Unsane, dropping this week, and continuing the theme of the democratising effect of newer technologies from my interview with cinematographer Matt De Sousa last week, I would like to highlight ten feature films shot on consumer-grade cameras. I hope some of these films will convince you […]
With Christmas round the corner, what better way to get in the festive mood than to watch Bruce Willis running around with a machine gun? That’s right, today I’m bringing to you my five favourite ‘anti-Christmas movie’ Christmas movies. While writing this in the office, Rory intervened and insisted I put two more upbeat, family-friendly […]