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Let Me Think, But Not Much: Screenwriting and the Brain(s)

13/03/2017

100 Problems, but as long as they're someone else's, we're locked to our seats....

Shake Your Inner Monkey: Movie Screenwriting and The Limbic Brain

07/03/2017

Sex, Politics, Celebrity: What's on your monkey mind?...

Caress Your Inner Bunny (or We’ll Boil It): Movie Plotting and Psychology

02/03/2017

You want to write a killer plot? Feed the croc, snuggle the bunny and give the monkey a promotion...

Neurocinematic Testing – The Applications

16/02/2017

We know that certain stimuli can provoke certain reactions. How can we use that knowledge though? ...

Hunting the Inner Crocodile: Neurocinematic Methods

08/02/2017

Unleash your inner crocodile (but only after you've bought the popcorn)...

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Staggering Scenes: The Fine Art of Neurocinematic Studies

31/01/2017

On the treadmill, no-one can hide. New techniques of pre-testing audience response...

Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

24/01/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcap t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the...

Still Not Listening: Meryl Streep Fails to Charm the Hicks

14/01/2017

Meryl's message may have been astute, but if it ain't coming from a blue collar hick, it's just preaching to the choir....

Snare Drum Love: Interview (Le Spectre)

21/10/2016

Le Spectre's Yann Levasseur talks about simply trying to be creative and dark ...

Consumed By Cronenberg

16/10/2016

For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far...

Loitered Lens: Sharks @ King’s Cross Station

28/09/2016

Scenes from King's Cross as Sharks bring the Ya Ya Pop to London...

Soundtracking a Mulholland Ave. SolarDrive : Balthazar Getty (Interview)

12/08/2016

SolarDrive's Balthazar Getty talks Angelino car culture, film and music...

Toto, We’re Not in Cannes: San Sebastian Film Festival

03/08/2016

A genuine cinematic showcase without the silicone and glass fibre of Cannes...

Do You Want Shinier Computer Graphics? You Got ‘Em

22/07/2016

UCSD technicians unveil new techniques for creating shiny computer graphics for film, games and TV. Report...

Social Climbing, Social Division : High Rise (Film)

17/07/2016

A unique and dazzling vision of a dystopian Britain on the brink of social meltdown...

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Soundtracking the Great Game: (Stylotone Vinyl Reissue of Khartoum)

28/05/2016

Frank Cordell's epic soundtrack receives a lavish vinyl reissue...

The Last Man on the Moon

04/04/2016

Gene Kernan was the last man on the moon. This is his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love and loss....

A Battle of Wills, and Bowels (The Smuggler)

20/02/2016

An outlandish premise, played with subltety, The Smuggler teases unlikely laughs from the basest of subjects. Review...

The Man in the Amazon Castle (No Spoilers)

30/01/2016

Amazon Prime and Ridley Scott team up to bring Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle to the screen. Trebuchet recommends...

David Bowie, Time Travel and a film called Interstellar

29/01/2016

Reminiscences of Bowie are Proustian moments of total recall, but they can also link generations. A story of memory and hope ...

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Film)

22/01/2016

The story that proved we CAN fight Big Pharma, Attacking the Devil is a rallying cry to the spirit of truth...

Cuddly Dictators and Visible Boredom: Lost in Karastan

20/01/2016

Lost in Karastan is a slightly infuriating missed opportunity, albeit with some charm...

All Heroes Must Fall. Farewell to a Space Oddity (David Bowie)

12/01/2016

Bowie drew from the symbols and semiotics of myth, contemporising archetypes which have been crucial to humanity's concept of itself since time unrecorded....

Of Short Cinema and Semiotics: PoetryFilm

05/01/2016

PoetryFilm: image, text and sound techniques in very experimental forms...

Doing the Cartoon Nasty: Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt (Part Two)

05/11/2015

Bazooka Joe is a one eyed boy who heads a secret society and is named after a powerful projectile weapon. He was given life by an ex-pornographer then wrapped in wax and sold to children....

Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt

27/10/2015

By the roaring twenties a cinematic lens was steadily streaming increasingly deranged and lusty images out into the hinterlands of dullsville USA...

Guilt, loss and blame in smalltown America (Little Accidents)

25/09/2015

A bleak smalltown film, centred around a tragic mining accident...

Documenting The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris)

02/09/2015

LA’s early hardcore punk, eighties hair metal and the gutter-punk scene, lovingly filmed by Penelope Spheeris...

I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)

25/08/2015

Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm's I Dream of Wires draws out the turning points in the history of modular synthesis and the music it continues to generate...