Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold) is back, this time exploring… what it means to be a man. Featuring some of the funniest names in Hollywood including Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Judd Apatow, Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis, Arnett and Bateman produce as they explore out what it takes to be “mansome”.
Kicking off this Thursday for four days, the world’s most renowned film festival comes to London. Taking over The O2 from 26th-29th April, the first time outside the States for the Sundance organisation, Sundance London will be opened by Robert Redford and T Bone Burnett ahead of a full programme that includes Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts, 2 Days In New York starring Julie Delpy, For Ellen starring Paul Dano, LUV from Sheldon Candis and Safety Not Guaranteed with Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass. Tickets are available from sundance-london.com.
In the decade or so since Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Jason Statham’s film career has evolved from supporting act to leading man. More
The Monk (Le Moine) takes its inspiration from an 18th century gothic romance by English novelist M.G Lewis. More
From Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, directors of Little Miss Sunshine, and written by Zoe Kazan, Ruby Sparks follows Calvin (Paul Dano), a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Ruby Sparks is out July 25th, release TBC in the UK.
Amazing animation by Ion Lucin, he takes a simple sphere and puts it through its paces until there’s pretty much nothing else you could with a 3D circle. The transitions are mindblowing, using only two colours for such an amazing short animation. Made in Cinema 4D R13 with the Mograph module and post-production in After Effects.
Edgar Allan Poe once mused, “the Boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” and Saskia Kretzschmann made it into a short film. Based on Poe’s quotation, The Boundaries Of Life And Death is the result of her 5th semester at Anhalt University.
Jeff Who Lives At Home, is a predictably quirky, left-field slacker comedy. More
Even to those less acquainted with his music, it goes without saying that Bob Marley is one of the most recognisable icons of popular culture. More
Set in a future when time travel has been invented but is illegal and only available on the black market, a mob hitman’s job is to kill those who drop on his doorstep from some 30 years in the future, only his life gets all the more complicated when he finds himself sent back, as his bosses are attempting to “close the loop”. Looper sees Joseph Gordon-Levitt back under the instruction writer/director Rian Johnson and hits theatres September 28th.
