From the 13th to the 22nd of April, venues across Birmingham will be hosting the Flatpack Film Festival. If you’ve never been to a film festival before, this is a great chance to see one locally and if you’re well acquainted with film festivals already, Flatpack promises to have different...
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim became a phenomenon on its release in 2013, defining the very best in ‘mecha and monster showdown’ movies and creating the Mako Mori test in one fell swoop. So with del Toro cleaning house at the awards, it’s suitable for Pacific Rim: Uprising to capitalise...
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After completing her BA at the University of Derby, in Literature and Creative Writing, Deborah Haywood did her MA in English Literature in at Warwick and continued on to make several short films. She has recently completed her first feature film Pin Cushion. Can you tell us a little bit...
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Lucy Brydon is a Warwick graduate who has made several short films and is currently directing her first feature film SICK(er). She also teaches a screenwriting module here at Warwick. After you left university, you lived in Shanghai and made short films and commercials. How did you get into the...
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Adesola (known by her pseudonym Adessy) is a 21-year-old final year literature student here at Warwick University. She has recently completed her new documentary Brotherhood. Can you tell me a little bit about your documentary? What is the focus and what ideas does it address? Brotherhood is a documentary that...
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The Greatest Showman stars two of the most charming and charismatic actors in film today; Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron. These are two actors who know how to hold audience attention by being self-deprecating, fun and friendly. They’re likeable both on and off screen. And, on the surface, The Greatest...
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From the 9th to the 19th of November, Birmingham held the SHOUT! festival, a celebration of LGBT+ culture. Including art, music and theatre, the festival displayed a large collection of LGBT+ creations – including film! Over the ten days, a selection of LGBT films were screened as part of a...
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There is no such thing as an original idea. Science fiction often grapples with the notion of dwindling originality; copies of copies being a common theme in sci-fi. Fresh fiction is hard to find, which is why Arrival, the 2016 Denis Villeneuve directed sci-fi movie, caused such a stir on...
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How the soundtrack of Baby Driver has helped turn it into this summer’s hottest film.
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