The brilliance of stop motion technology tends to mask the raw talent Serkis brings to his performances.
I didn’t plan on spending six years covering the war in Afghanistan. I went there in 2007 to make a film about the vicious fighting between undermanned, underequipped British forces and the Taliban in Helmand, Afghanistan’s most violent province. But I became obsessed with what I witnessed there—how different it was from the conflict’s portrayal in the media and in official government statements.
When a drug returns more than a billion dollars in sales, it hits blockbuster status. So, notching up over US$11…
Once secret CIA, Defence, and State Department records fill in the gaps in Chilean film No depicting the media campaign to oust General Ausgusto Pinochet, with documents revealing he told advisers “I’m not leaving, no matter what!”
The positive reception of 2006’s ‘Kidulthood’ has no doubt paved the way, in some part, for the production of films like ‘The Man Inside’ – a grim depiction of inner-city ‘yoof’ life that centres on the struggle of one young man to overcome the violence of his upbringing.