SXSW is in full flow and the a couple of American based film sites are on hand to keep their eyes peeled and their ears open for any interesting nuggets of news. There seems to be a lot of focus on ‘Grindhouse’ at the festival and Rodriguez has been very chatty on several interesting subjects; [...]

‘I met the Walrus’ has an interesting visual style; the whole short is played out with animation and motion graphics, and that’s what made me take note. It also has an interesting hook in the fact that the film uses archived audio, as it says at the beginning of the trailer:
“In 1969, the 14-year-old Jerry [...]

The film ‘The Live of the Saints’ seems to be a ill conceived attempt to make a contemporary London-based fairytale, but instead of holding anything close to cinematic magic, it’s vacuous script, pretentious tone and unfocused directing make it a painful thing to watch.
Set in North London ‘The Lives of the Saints’ is a gangland [...]

The other day I posted a great poster for ‘Old Joy‘, which sparked an interesting article over at the guardian blog about great film poster art. With this at the back of my mind I was browsing some of my friends photos on flickr yesterday and came across a great batch of video covers from [...]