I spent four EXHAUSTING hours in a comfy chair in Breakfall Studios’ Manhattan gym, watching superfit stunt performers training: backflips, cartwheels, throwing themselves to the ground and practicing disarming each other with prop weapons. Everyone was lovely and if I ever need to be thrown out of a window, or have a bottle smashed over… New York’s Stunt World – Training, Hustling… Oscars? Read More
Ilyana Eberhardt – stuntwoman
“Stunt coordinators are so creative – they are given new things and they just have to figure it out for themselves how to make it work… and still find a safe way to do it.” Ilyana Eberhardt, 24 1, What was your first experience performing a stunt on screen and what other shows have you… Ilyana Eberhardt – stuntwoman Read More
Jared Blake DiCroce – stuntman, director, producer
“We try to hide our faces just so we can be recycled and work again!” Jared B DiCroce, 34 1, How did you get into stunt performing? I had a long journey. I started as an actor, I’ve been in SAG (Screen Actors Guild) for years. I worked on The Sopranos and I did a… Jared Blake DiCroce – stuntman, director, producer Read More
Noah Schultz – stuntman
“You’d never want to lie in this industry because it could kill you” Noah Schultz, 35 1, I hear you were in Baby Driver? I loved that film! What were you doing? Yes I doubled for Academy Award winning musician Paul Williams (Rainbow Connection) who was playing The Butcher, so it was the warehouse scene where… Noah Schultz – stuntman Read More
The Mountain Between Us 3 stars
I’m not going to lie, my first thought when Alex and Ben survived the plane crash high up in the wintry mountains, with only a nameless dog and a dead pilot called Walter for company, was who’ll be eaten first: Walter or the labrador. My second thought was, how on earth are they going to… The Mountain Between Us Read More
Blade Runner: The Final Cut 4.5 stars
This is Ridley Scott’s final cut, and amazingly for directors’ cuts – which usually go on for about four days and leave you thinking “what, if anything, has actually been cut?” – this comes in at a nifty two hours. Off to see the Blade Runner 2049 sequel and worried you’ll be completely lost? Whether… Blade Runner: The Final Cut Read More
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Is Here In Case You Don’t Want To Watch It
I’m not going to say whether there are spoilers on the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer, as what makes a spoiler? But I know lots of you are huge fans and will be having an internal battle with your Dark Side as to whether you should watch it or not. If you want… Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Is Here In Case You Don’t Want To Watch It Read More
Oslo, August 31st 4.5 stars
This is a beautiful film. Following 34 year old Anders, a drug addict venturing into the world towards the end of a live-in treatment programme outside Oslo, the dialogue is extraordinarily realistic – not because characters’ comments and responses fit together so well, but because they don’t. But it is one of those films where… Oslo, August 31st Read More
Constantine 4 stars
I’m struck by the similarities between demon hunter John Constantine and John Wick, Keanu Reeves’ decade-later, career-rejuvenating film. In fact Constantine could almost be an occult prequel, John Wick: Book of Revelation. What is an exorcist if not a religious hitman? And Papa Midnite’s bar, drowning in red light, with rules of neutrality so no… Constantine Read More
Keanu’s Replicas Trailer Is Batshit Brilliant & Can We Clone Him Too
*** Read my review of Replicas now *** UPDATE 05/01/2019: A new teaser trailer has been released ahead of the film’s US release on 11 January. Check it out here along with the other two trailers. A few cloned Keanus would keep a big chunk of the population happy (or just me – four or… Keanu’s Replicas Trailer Is Batshit Brilliant & Can We Clone Him Too Read More
Leatherface 3 stars
As a mother I’ve got to agree with one of the life (death?) lessons in Leatherface – never diss someone’s mom. This is a prequel to the 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it has some good moments, though it never reaches the heights of that classic. The central metaphor of the teen shedding… Leatherface Read More
New York Film Festival Round-Up & Tips
I’m back from a week at NYFF. I hadn’t been to Manhattan since the mid-90s, when I lived in London and was used to people thinking I was going to murder them if I made eye contact. Now I live in a small town where even if not everybody knows my name (“that blonde one”… New York Film Festival Round-Up & Tips Read More
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