Luke Buckmaster

In Mexican writer/director Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2007), a science fiction drama set in a future world where humankind no longer has the ability to procreate, several elaborate long takes evolve the film from a visually impressive work to one of gut-punching bravado.

The shadow Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies have cast over the comic book superhero blockbuckster is so large, so bleak, and indicative of a style so doggedly averse to embracing any manner of camp or kitsch that a gritty sub-genre has emerged spawning marquee productions that are now, thanks to director Zack Snyder (Watchmen, Sucker Punch) and screenwriter David S.

Last year director Joss Whedon shredded the global box office with his big, loud, sprawling take on The Avengers, a blockbuster superhero mash-up that earned the Buffy brain trust no small amount of industry cred.

One of the world’s longest-running film fests, The Sydney Film Festival, is now underway, amd cinephiles in Australia are once again spoiled for choice.

There is one — and, sadly, only one — good scene in the new, gaudy, mega budget adaptation of F.

The iGeneration’s Star Trek crew are back on the USS enterprise, turning dials, gawking at screens, swiveling in chairs and squinting through a layer of lens flares in director J.

Could scenes from one of the biggest movie releases of the year and one of the most expensive literary adaptations of all time have been directed via Skype? Cinetology understands blockbuster filmmaker Baz Luhrmann last year called the shots from the (cyber) director’s chair for his highly anticipated adaptation of The Great Gatsby some 16,000 kilometers from where the action was taking place.

Hollywood has depicted characters busting their husbands, wives and partners in acts of bedroom infidelity so many times audiences may be forgiven for reminding themselves that they ought to care.

There are few words reviewers can apply to thrillers and suspense films that are more clichéd than “Hitchcockian.

In the early decades of the 20th century, audiences arrived at cinemas prior to feature films to watch pre-show content such as newsreels and serials.

Combine the words “drug users” and “films” and one imagines a blur of downers and unpleasantries: grotty apartments, wan-looking addicts with beanies and scabs, vomit-lined gutters, bullet-ridden men in singlets — that sort of thing.

Hollywood is often thought of as the vanguard of progressive America, a hotspot of liberal values and cultural reformism forever tapped into the zeitgeist.