The Creator: Interview with Gareth Edwards

Gareth Edwards speaks exclusively to Cinamore about The Creator answering questions about the film’s filmmaking process. The Monsters director began his career specialising in digital effects, having also worked as the individual responsible for its visual effects. Having also previously worked on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, with Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), who…… Continue reading The Creator: Interview with Gareth Edwards

The Role of the Critic

This Barbie is everything (Picture: Warner Bros.)

“Critics are nasty, jealous, jaded and bitter. They think it’s all about them. They’re know-it-alls. They want to appear superior to everyone else. They’re impossible to please. They don’t understand the tastes of ordinary people. They love to tear down other people’s hard work. Those who can do it, do it. Those who can’t do…… Continue reading The Role of the Critic

Izzy Aman: The Joy of Drag

With its world premiere at FilmPride, director Isabella Walton speaks about her progressive short film, Izzy Aman: The Joy of Drag, exploring its approach to gender fluidity. Izzy Aman, with all their thrusting, painting and gender nonconformity, is the Drag King act created by Isabel Adomakoh Young. In this candid short documentary, director Isabella Walton illuminates…… Continue reading Izzy Aman: The Joy of Drag

Black Mirror: All Episodes in Season 6 Ranked

Black Mirror is back after a hiatus, written as usual by Charlie Brooker. The anthology show, revelling in its twists, predominately grew in popularity for its intellectual dissection of society’s reliance on technology or for its reflection of our own world. Black Mirror’s sixth season, containing five episodes, features an interntaionally stellar cast including Salma…… Continue reading Black Mirror: All Episodes in Season 6 Ranked

Exclusive: Interview with Mark Jenkin for BFI Film on Film Festival

Will there be another Film on Film Festival? (Picture: BFI)

Mark Jenkin, BAFTA-winning director, speaks exclusively to Cinamore about the beauty of film and the upcoming BFI Film on Film Festival. The inaugural BFI Film on Film Festival takes place at BFI Southbank from 8-11 June, where audiences can experience screenings of highly flammable nitrate prints for the first time in the UK for over…… Continue reading Exclusive: Interview with Mark Jenkin for BFI Film on Film Festival

How Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Avoided Superhero Fatigue

Miles isn't falling through frame. He's RISING (Picture: Sony Pictures Animation)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse amazes not just for its storytelling, but for existing separate to the superhero fatigue argument as directors Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman created a love letter to the comic book age. The collective trauma shared by audiences in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War for many still elicits post-traumatic anxiety as…… Continue reading How Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Avoided Superhero Fatigue

Exclusive: Killing Boris Johnson – Interview with director of Cannes selected short

Killing Boris Johnson is the only UK film selected as part of La Cinef at Festival de Cannes 2023. Cinamore speaks exclusively with its writer, director Musa Alderson-Clarke, and producer Solomon Golding. La Cinef selected among 2000 films submitted by film schools from all around the world, 14 short fictions and 2 animated short films,…… Continue reading Exclusive: Killing Boris Johnson – Interview with director of Cannes selected short

The Renaissance of the Video Game Adaptation – Press Start to Continue

“Opening with lots of zeros, all we get are superheroes: Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, Jedi man, sequel man, prequel man. Formulaic scripts, and after Fifty Shades of Grey, they’ll all have leather whips!” so cried Jack Black in 2015 on-stage at the Oscars. Black, who this week highlights as Bowser in the atrocious Super Mario Bros Movie,…… Continue reading The Renaissance of the Video Game Adaptation – Press Start to Continue

Kimberley Nixon in conversation

Kimberley Nixon speaks exclusively to Cinamore about her career across film and TV, the triumph of Fresh Meat, and candidly on perinatal OCD. Kimberley Nixon, BAFTA Cymru winner for her role as Holly Pryce in Ordinary Lies, speaks exclusively to Cinamore about her career as an actress spanning roles from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging,…… Continue reading Kimberley Nixon in conversation

Exclusive: Spotless director Emma Branderhorst interview

Alicia Prinsen sits pensively as Ruby in Emma Branderhorst's potential OSCAR winning short Spotless (Picture: IJswater Films)

Spotless could be a serious OSCAR® contender with its short film about period poverty, as director Emma Branderhorst discusses. Spotless, directed by Emma Branderhorst, tackles the worldwide issue of poverty, and humiliation around period product accessibility. Please note the short film and the interview quotes with Emma Branderhost are told from a cisgender woman’s perspective,…… Continue reading Exclusive: Spotless director Emma Branderhorst interview