Though Christmas is over, BAFTA Guru keeps on giving with a brand new crop of podcasts, videos and articles. Don’t miss video edits from the autumn Screenwriters Lecture Series with Emma Thompson, Steven Knight and James Schamus and A Life in Pictures with David Fincher. Plus, you can listen in full to career retrospectives with Julie Walters, Ethan Hawke and Ray
By Daryl Bär Based on the real life of Chris Kyle (the most lethal sniper in US history). The film depicts Kyle’s tour of duty in Iraq and his struggles to be a good father and husband despite his deployment. Taking into consideration the relatively alien and abstract notion of Right-Wing American
By Daryl Bär. When her husband tells her he wants a divorce, the ultra-conservative lawyer Diane takes her teenage son and daughter to visit her estranged hippy mother in Woodstock. Romances blossom, mother-daughter relationships are weathered and before the credits roll everything is resolved with a neat little bow on top. Granted,
Matt Poitras’ feature length documentary To Go Viking follows a Texas branch of the Jomsburg Elag group of Viking battle re-enactors through their life, training and battle as they prepare for the ultimate test at the 17th Slav and Viking festival in Wolin. Primarily focussing on Clinton Dale, a member of
By Daryl Bär Set more or less entirely in a trailer home, Breathless sees friends Lorna and Tiny dealing with stolen monies and a dead husband, all the while a lone police officer prowls outside to gain entry to the property. Both Gina Gershon and Keli Giddish give a great deal in
