Grey Gardens: The End of an Era

When thinking about documentary film-making, and perusing the classics in my library, I came across the 1975 film, Grey Gardens, and felt that it would be unjust of me to write on anything else having spotted it. Grey Gardens is one of the most hauntingly memorable and remarkably captured works of nostalgia in the genre; [...]

Monsters without a Monster budget

“If ‘Cloverfied’ was 9-1-1, then ‘Monsters’ is the war on terror.” Gareth Edwards on his film Monsters. Gareth Edwards graduated film school ten years ago aspiring to be a director. Like many filmakers his childhood dreams were put on the back burner when his career took a turn into the visual effects lane. It was [...]