Posts By Michael Prescott
- Film
Film Discussions: The making of a remake
With the news that Sony are set to remake the acclaimed French prison-drama A Prophet in what appears to be at first...
- Film
Film Truths: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel sees the renaissance of “old cinema” – since followed up with Quartet, A Late Quartet, Amour and...
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Film Truths: Splice
Splice is a primarily science-fiction film released in 2009 that also encompasses elements of the horror and thriller genres. It’s one of...
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A modern-day cast of 12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men is one of my very favourite films. The 1957 theatre-adaptation is the pinnacle of courtroom dramas and is the...
- Film
The Place Beyond Blue Valentine
Derek Cianfrance’s second film, the anticipated The Place Beyond the Pines, was released last week as his follow-up to critically-acclaimed debut Blue...
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Why should we care about film royalty?
Despite a certain amount of delay compared to the rest of the country, I’m in the process of watching the entirety of...
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The people vs. their films
The newly-released Good Vibrations has a main character who asserts that the music he helps to promote, rather than belonging to any one person,...
- Film
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Trance and other ‘hush-hush’ films
Danny Boyle’s Trance is one of an apparently rare breed where the less you know about it beforehand, the better. Though the...
- Entertainment
Who needs Spring? It’s Studio Ghibli season!
Starting (Tuesday 26th March) at 6:30pm is a season of Studio Ghibli films on Film4 that run for just under 3 weeks....
- Film
Soderbergh’s send-off?: Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh is perhaps one of the most eclectic directors in the mainstream, and part of that is his ability to take...