Chris Butler on ParaNorman: “We wanted it to feel like a rollercoaster”
The co-director of the weird and wonderful stop motion modern classic ParaNorman reflects on the film’s legacy a decade later.
Category: Film Editorials
How Men in Black Subverted Blockbuster Tropes to Become Box Office Gold
Twenty-five years ago Barry Sonnenfeld’s workplace action-comedy broke the rules and launched an iconic franchise.
How the Dynamic Editing of Don’t Think Sets the Bar for Concert Films
On the brilliant synaesthesia of Adam Smith and The Chemical Brothers’ concert film.
How 24 Hour Party People Put an Anarchic Spin on the Music Biopic
Looking back on the 20th anniversary of Michael Winterbottom’s unconventionally honest Factory biopic.
CJ Hunt on White Supremacy Documentary The Neutral Ground
The Daily Show-featured comedian on his debut directorial feature, busting ingrained White Supremacy myths, and the global parallels in a film about Confederate statues.
US Box Office Report: 31/12/21 – 02/01/22
Moviegoers are singing “Spidey Bells,” being Scrooges to all other releases, and Other Box Office News.
Matthew Heineman & Dr Nathalie Dougé on COVID Documentary The First Wave
The Oscar-nominated documentarian and his latest documentary’s beating heart on the trauma of early COVID, the difficulties of filming in the middle of pandemic ground zero, and the humanity which sees us through.
Black Widow
Unsurprisingly, Black Widow is another very good Marvel movie, albeit a frustratingly compromised one.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas turns 20
An almost-unwatchable disaster turns 20.
They Could Have Avoided This
On the disastrously botched treatment of cinemas, and the floor staff paying for top-level callous incompetence, during the ongoing pandemic.
Callie Petch 