Robert Zemeckis

THE WITCHES Trailer
THE WITCHES Trailer

A little boy and his kindly grandmother thwart the efforts of a coven of witches to rid Britain of children by turning them into mice.

FORREST GUMP & Manipulating Your Emotions With Musical Score
FORREST GUMP Manipulates Your Emotions With Its Musical Score

William Hopson explores how Alan Silvestri’s score proves to be manipulative in the best possible way in Forrest Gump.

WELCOME TO MARWEN: Zemeckis By Way Of Doll Horror

Welcome to Marwen is an unfortunately shallow endeavor, with trite dialogue and a saccahrine portrait of very serious issues.

WELCOME TO MARWEN Trailer
WELCOME TO MARWEN Trailer

In Welcome to Marwen, a victim of a brutal attack finds a unique and beautiful therapeutic outlet to help him through his recovery process.

Staff Inquiry: Director's Cinematic Worlds We Want To Inhabit
Staff Inquiry: Director’s Cinematic Worlds We Want To Inhabit

In our latest collaboration, we discuss cinematic worlds we want to live in, ranging from John Ford’s Westerns to Jacques Demy’s musicals.

ALLIED: Robert Zemeckis' Generic WWII Thriller
ALLIED: Robert Zemeckis’ Generic WWII Thriller

With Allied, yet another volume has been added to the overflowing pile of wartime films. Though with the talented Robert Zemeckis at the helm, it seldom showcases his trademark focused and proficient direction, which is therefore not enough to raise the film above its many aching flaws.

Marty's Paradox: The Creation Of Character In BACK TO THE FUTURE
Marty’s Paradox: The Creation Of Character In BACK TO THE FUTURE

Paradoxes are not discussed widely in cinema, firstly because they are difficult to understand. Secondly, they simply mess with everyone’s fun. However, they create interesting arguments, and the time travel genre is a great fan of the ‘why not?

ALLIED Teaser Trailer
ALLIED Teaser Trailer

Brad Pitt’s doin’ one thing and one thing only in Allied… falling for Marion Cotillard. Yeah, he’ll kill some Nazis along the way, but it looks like the shady backwaters of the spy world is there to complicate their relationship instead of override the plot. It’s possible that will change in later marketing pushes, but for now, Allied is being pitched as another in a long line of wartime romances.

THE WALK: Balancing the Line Between Schmaltz and Schlock

Remember when 3D movies dominated our cinematic landscape? No, not the 1980’s, where blurry red and blue glasses gave way to gimmicky horror films such as Jaws 3D and Amityville 3D. I’m also not talking about the early 2000’s, where 3D was turned over to children’s films, producing flops like Spy Kids 3 and The Polar Express.

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Back To The Future Day: October 21st, 2015

There are franchises that have their special days to commemorate their enduring legacy, usually ones which are directly implied from the films. Star Wars, for example, has its May 4th as a reference to the famous “may the Force be with you” quote, and the Back To The Future trilogy also has its own. As the series centres on time travel and that there are a number of dates which our heroes transport to, the one that arguably stands out as ‘Back To The Future Day’ is October 21st, 2015.

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1.21 Gigawatts: The History of Time Travel in Cinema

In some ways, the cinema is the closest thing we can experience to travelling through time – certainly the closest of any art form. In the dark room of a movie theatre, an audience can be transported to the distant past or spectacular visions of the future, and even in watching films from the 30’s and 40’s we can look at the lives and faces of people who died many years ago. Time travel became popular as a literary device with HG Well’s The Time Machine – published in 1895, the same year that the Lumière Brothers made Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat.

THE WALK – First Look: Teaser Trailer 1

The Walk tells the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. I’m getting acrophobia from just looking at this trailer, eep! The Walk features Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit, Ben Kingsley and Charlotte Le Bon.