In this episode of Pod Save Our Screen, Maria and Blake chat to director of Star Trek Into Darkness ( Star Trek, Mission Impossible 3, Super 8 and the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII) JJ Abram about his affinity for sci-fi and how the crew of the enterprise hadn’t reached their mythical peak status.
To celebrate the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Blu Ray and DVD Blake had the pleasure of sitting down with Richard (Thorin Oakenshield) Armitage to chat all things middle earth.
It’s a rare opportunity to interview both Superman and Wonder Woman at the same time.
Thanks to Transmission Films Graffiti with Punctuation got some time to chat to Director Tony Krawitz about his latest psychological thriller DEAD EUROPE. What drew you to Christos Tsiolkas’ source material? The issues…
Welcome to BLU-Review where we ask fans of the blu-ray format some questions about their why they converted, and hopefully convince you why you should.
In fact meeting Jack Reacher’s director/screen writer Christopher McQuarrie really couldn’t have been cooler. The candid and eloquent ‘go to’ screenwriter is finally getting a chance to show off his directorial aptitude for a mainstream audience and boy did he grab it with both hands.
Graffiti With Punctuation’s Blake Howard had the pleasure of chatting with Wreck-It Ralph Director Rich Moore during his Australian Tour.
Graffiti With Punctuation’s Blake Howard had the pleasure of chatting with Wreck-It Ralph stars John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman during their Australian Tour.
Lee Unkrich, Oscar Winning Director of Toy Story 3 and Co-Director of Finding Nemo and Toy Story 2 is in Sydney for the Graphic Festival at the Sydney Opera House and we got to chat with him about Star Wars Episode 7 rumours, his fondest directorial moments, his upcoming Day of the Day themed film and vetoing inappropriately shaped merchandise.
On Wednesday 24th October I was lucky enough to represent Graffiti With Punctuation in a round table interview session with the director of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood and The Master, Mr. Paul Thomas Anderson.
We talk to the Academy award winning actor about ‘Savages’, Oliver Stone, the emotional roller-coaster of ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, and opening a restaurant called ‘Benicio Del Taco’
After many years of producing other people’s stories writer director P.J Hogan returns to Australia with Mental and goes back to the well.
Director Andrew Dominik was in Sydney with his larrikin star Ben Mendelsohn to promote his latest visually sublime effort Killing Them Softly.
To celebrate the Blu Ray release of the peerless of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones The Complete Adventures I had the luxury of meeting and chatting to Sallah himself, the legendary booming John Rhys-Davies.
Is Kimble Rendall the man to bring Michael Bay [Director of Transformers & Bad Boys] “Bayhem” to the Australian film industry? Maria Lewis finds out.
DINNER with Stan Lee AND Bob Kane is pretty much every geek’s wet dream. For Hollywood veteran Larry Cohen it was not only a reality, but a regular occurrence.
“You gotta get in there it’s pretty geeky man, like if you like nerd shit – this is for the Star Wars guys out there. It’s basically like the Star Wars guy who keeps his action figures in the box gets a girlfriend. That’s really what the movie is” Colin Trevorrow
I recently had the great pleasure of speaking to Lee Hirsch, director of the amazing documentary Bully. What follows is a discussion about coping with documenting such harrowing subject matter, the bravery of the Sioux…
We discuss the relevancy of reunions, Harold and Kumar moments in American Pie: Reunion, being part of a writing duo, and unleashing the Stifler.
Best-selling author Charlaine Harris is taking the cinematic super heroine and making her a whole lot more relatable.
(Editorial note): Months ago Nick and I were in an email exchange about whether or not we wanted a FIVE STAR FILM entry for The Master. At the time I resisted, I thought that it need Read more →
Mann’s specific cultural and historic origins are illustrated in the formal qualities and thematic philosophy of the ‘70s and this is represented directly through his characters (Bergman particularly in this film). During the 1968-1980 period American films began to speak about different hallmarks of the deconstruction of the American image, and especially the crisis of masculinity. Read more →
It's a rare bird of a film that can elevate itself so distinctly between a first and second viewing to make a reviewer back-flip on their original estimations. The Descendants is such a film. Read more →
"one of the greatest sci-fi action films ever made: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" Read more →
There are great films, capital G-F Great Films, and then, there are those films admitted to the VIP table behind the velvet rope, those seriously discussed when the question of the Greatest Film of All Time is raised. KANE. CASABLANCA. VERTIGO. RULES OF THE GAME. 8 ½. Few films from the last four decades are invited to this gathering of cinematic high rollers, but the first admitted is, nigh-unanimously, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 masterpiece, THE GODFATHER. Read more →
As my alarm jolted me awake this morning, five thoughts went through my head in quick succession. One: Have they done studies on how little sleep can a person survive on? Two: Am I the case study?? Three: When I get back to LA, I’m so doing a juice cleanse. Four: Oh god, that sounded really LA. Five: I wonder how early the crepe place opens?
That’s the question for this week’s GWP Roundtable: Which film deserves a sequel?
Waking up from a nap I opened my eyes and discovered… I felt better. Hurrah! No more headache, or shakes, and I smiled as I thought Cannes, you haven’t beaten me yet!
“Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, the screening is about to begin. Please turn off your mobile telephones for the duration of the performance.” That recorded message plays first in French, then English, about
“And too much of your butt? Impossible!” I said [to Matt Damon], because I’m shameless.
