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Hey, did you see that highly regarded new drama being hailed as "important" and Oscar-worthy," it an allegorical tale based on an actual event? I, neither. Screw that. Not while I can view importan...
When producer Orian Williams originally approached you out of the blue to do a film, you told him you were actually considering a change from photography…
For the last 5 years I was thinking...
Sincerely Yours (1955)
Tony Warrin is a pianist.
And if you flippantly pronounce that minus the final "t," he is liable to sock you in the schnozolla. See, Anthony's a stud with an adoring woma...
Born in 1957, Lee Myung-Se studied film at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. After graduation in 1979, Lee worked on numerous films including OUR JOYFUL YOUNG DAYS (dir/ Changho Bae) as an assistant di...
Why is it that an American film always ends in the same way? The good guy always gets the beautiful girl. The man in the white hat always comes out on top. The underdog team wins the big game. Goo...
First came "The Golden Rules Of Scarepix"; then there was the spin-off concerning films outside the fright-flick genre, "Hollywood Has Taught Us..." (Editor's note: both are visible in The Spinning Im...
I had seen the Anna Nicole Smith (ANS) vehicle To The Limit in the mid-Nineties, before the bountiful blonde became a household name, and considered reviewing it a few years ago. But, suddenly, Anna ...
The Spinning Image (TSI): How did you get the idea for 36?Olivier Marchal (OM): I’ve always wanted to pay tribute to Dominique Loiseau by telling his story. Dominique was a cop from ...
The Spinning Image in conversation with Brett Leonard, director of Feed (conducted December 2005).
The Spinning Image (TSI): If we can begin by backtracking a little bit, prior to Feed you direc...
The Spinning Image (TSI): Is this your first film?Scott Ryan (SR): First feature, I've made some shorts and stuff like that.
TSI: How did you fund the film, and how much was it...
The Spinning Image (TSI): Do you ever think you’re supporting the crime rather than it being about the actors?
Gary Dourdain (GD): That’s what you call formula tv. When we first start...
Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennessee, the story is of a spirit which attacked the wealthy and highly respected Bell family for four years, eventually causing the death of one of them...
In 1933 travelling life insurance salesman Edward “Stubbs” Stubblefield is shot dead and buried in an unmarked grave in the remote Pennsylvanian countryside.
Leap forward 26 years and that same rem...
Besides being the country where they made all that great taffy that got stuck in your braces as a kid, and the ingredient of every sandwich eaten during the week following Thanksgiving, we all know "t...
With the DVD release of The Devil’s Rejects due over Christmas (how festive!), we thought it high time we caught up with Rob Zombie and talked about his latest movie, as well as his old one… and his n...
Steve Looker, director of the low-budget British horror thriller Scarred, was interviewed for The Spinning Image by Darrell Buxton at Cornerhouse cinema, Manchester, over the Hallowe’en weekend in Oct...
Gerry Anderson of Thunderbirds fame isn't only responsible for that you know! As well as his puppet based output such as Joe 90 (my personal favourite) and Captain Scarlet, he was also the man behind ...
camaraderie, n. spirit of friendly familiarity and goodwill between comrades
hellraiser, n. a rowdy, troublesome, or unruly individual
The stereotype of the lone celebrity he...
Hollywood and mental illness have always been controversial bedfellows, with the characters they portray often descending into psychopathic caricatures – just think Hannibal Lector. In a light-hearted...
With DeNiro sinking ever deeper in the quicksand of self-parody, Pacino waning, and Brando six feet under, Method acting has lost its holy trinity. With The Machinist and Batman Begins Christian Ba...
What does $8000 buy these days? Barely a pound of crack and a high class hooker to enjoy it with! But that's not for these guys, knowing the true value of money they made their own movie - and what's ...
The Spinning Image (TSI): Are there cultural differences that either the director or actress noticed between the screening of The Isle in Korea versus it's screening last night here in P...
Brad Anderson, director of The Machinist dropped by and we used it as a good excuse to quickly question him!
The Spinning Image (TSI): Christian Bale’s performance has just staggered people wher...
In the summer of 1999, when the gates of their high school opened, four young men set forth to find their very own ‘American Dream’. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Great Falls...
