On February 17, 2012, the Indiana University Cinema (Bloomington, Indiana, USA) hosted a one-night retrospective of independent animator Joanna Priestley’s films. This interview for Cinemart came about as a result of that retrospective. Thanks to Jon Vickers (Director of the IU Cinema), the Underground Film Series at IU, and, of course, Joanna Priestley. The first [...]
Michael Biehn is a bloody legend. He’s in Aliens, The Terminator, The Abyss, Navy Seals, Tombstone, The Rock and Planet Terror. He’s worked under the direction of James Cameron, Michael Bay, Robert Rodriguez and William Friedkin. He’s acted alongside, well any and everyone: Schwarzenegger, Sigourney Weaver, Charlie Sheen, Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage. Aside from [...]
It’s pretty fair to say Cinemart worships at the church of Joss Whedon. We know a lot of people love his work but we really, really love his creative output – possibly to quite manic and scary levels. But that’s what awesome writing and directing does to people. He’s the man who invented Buffy the [...]
Cinemart met Robert Wieckiewicz, star of Oscar-nominated Polish film In Darkness, in central London this week, prior to the film’s 16th of March release here in the UK. Though he has extremely good English, Wieckiewicz decided to use the help of an interpreter and to answer all of the questions put to him in his [...]
Agnieszka Holland’s latest feature, In Darkness, opens in UK cinemas on 16th March. The Oscar-nominated picture is the true life story of Polish citizens helping Jews hide from the Nazis for a price. Cinemart spoke to the lauded Polish director last week to discuss her latest film. Cinemart: In Darkness was written in English but [...]
Ryan McCoy is the writer and a star of the new found-footage horror film Evidence. You can read my review over here, in which I say it’s “like being trapped on the Ghost Train from hell”, but have a few misgivings. It’s not often you get to ask someone behind a film some frank questions [...]
With his debut feature, 13Hrs, shown on Horror Channel Friday 16th March director (22.55pm) Jonathan Glendening recently chatted to Cinemart about his liking for lycanthrope creatures and his forays into horror cinema with both 13Hrs and his latest picture, Strippers Vs. Werewolves, which will be released 27th April. Read on for the full scoop… Cinemart: [...]
Ti West’s gloriously-retro horror flick, The House of The Devil, came out of nowhere and terrified audiences in 2010. The cinematography, set design, costumes and storyline proudly evokes an era when Lucio Fulci and other “video nasty” directors were giving audiences nightmares and burning extreme imagery across the cultural landscape leaving a trail of death. [...]
I first saw Nicolas Winding Refn’s Valhalla Rising during a screening at Vue West End as part of the BFI London Film Festival programme. The Danish filmmaker introduced the movie, talked a little about its production and even admitted, clearly for an audience laugh, that his wife found his films ‘boring’. Watching it on the [...]
A very recent article I wrote on Moviedrome, a series which not only introduced some revelatory cinema to my then very young eyes, but provided a fine education, got me thinking about its first (and best) presenter Alex Cox. Moviedrome is a show I have very fond memories of and after I’d written the article [...]
