Annie review
There’s a scene in Annie, Will Gluck’s 2014 update of the famous comic strip turned stage musical turned film, which sees the lead characters scoff candy to excess and go wild with the freebies at a Hollywood premiere party. It seems like they’re not the only ones to get giddy on vast quantities sugar and take free reign of Hollywood’s … Read more
Rob Marshall on why She’ll Be Back was cut from Into the Woods, and a clip from the scene
Updated March 2nd, 2015. There’s now an excerpt from She’ll Be Back in a video player at the bottom of the story. Adapting Stephen Sondheim‘s stage musical Into the Woods for the screen was not an easy task for writer James Lapine and director Rob Marshall, and amongst their difficult decisions will have been the tricky business … Read more
Manakamana review
Manakamana opens with a single, locked off shot of an old man and a young boy, silently seated in a cable car. As the beautifully luscious Nepalese jungles falls away in the background, framed by the window behind them and playing like a film within the film, we are left in the dark as to why … Read more
Hello Carter review
Hello Carter marks Anthony Wilcox’s first feature film as writer and director, having cut his teeth as a second unit director. Sadly, this dreary ‘romantic comedy’ will do little to mark out this débutant as a fresh talent. Before the story begins, Carter (Charlie Cox) has had a terrible year. He was made redundant from his job and dumped by … Read more