Posts By Michael Prescott
- Film
Forget Hitchcock. Remember these greats instead…
Before the panic sets in, I’m not talking about the man himself, but rather his distorted figure as presented on screen. Both Anthony...
- Film
Wreck-It Ralph’s nifty shades of grey
Apologies for the title but the opportunity to make puns linking worldwide-craze erotica and children’s animations comes along far too rarely. What...
- Film
Argo, Affleck and Hollywood
Argo is well and truly back under the microscope. Months after its initial cinema release it’s been propelled into the limelight again...
- Film
Rewriting Film History: Directors of Future Past
Kathryn Bigelow, Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson are three of the biggest directors around, and yet all three could be said...
- Film
Got Milk? Ten of the greatest LGBT films
With a major step taken towards sexuality equality this week, it seems like a good time to remind ourselves of the sometimes...
- Film
3D, Pixar and Nolan’s Gotham
3D is probably here to stay, but let’s hope it’s not. Fortunately the 3D referred to in the title raises an issue...
- Featured
When is a film not a film? When it ends
But is this really the case…? (Warning: contains major spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises, plus some spoilers for Inception and Life of Pi)...
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Not just a one-film wonder
Following up on last week’s article about directors to look out for after their first two films, here I take a look...
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The directorial rule of three
The year of 2012 in film could be remembered for numerous reasons. It was the year of the blockbuster most of all,...
- Film
What does genre matter?: Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook – or Silver Linings, as it apparently prefers to be called – is the surprise hit of the month,...