By Rowan Malyon. A much-needed film for our time, For Your Consideration builds a wonderfully pithy satirical narrative about the problems with the 21st century film industry. Poppy Gordon’s debut short follows a series of young, privileged women meeting up to discuss the development of a film that will surely get them
A group of friends start their freshmen year at a tough public high school when their friend Cassie disappears in West Baltimore. With the police unable, or unwilling, to find her, the young friends take it upon themselves to find out what happened to her, undertaking a harrowing journey that
It’s five days before shooting a made-for-TV remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant and script reader, Gerwin (Andreas Lust) is helping audition the lead. Vera, the director (Judith Engel) is under immense pressure as this is her first television film project but can’t agree
Body Transformations in Film: Amazing and Inspiring or Dangerous? By Frankie Wallace. Whether it’s Tom Hanks for Castaway, Zac Efron for Baywatch, or Anne Hathway for Les Miserables, the actors and actresses in Hollywood seem all-willing to go all-out to gain or lose weight and muscle for a role. After
By Jack Hawkins. Twenty-nine years ago, in the fall of 1990, a film adaptation of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, seemed unlikely. For this was a book deemed so violent, so pornographic, that Ellis received 13 death threats before it was even published. Indeed, the prospect of it being
