Interview with Aaron Aites & Audrey Ewell

With the recent UK release of Until the Light Takes Us on DVD & Blu-ray, I was given the opportunity to interview Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, the minds behind the Norwegian black metal documentary that not only sets out to get the facts straight about the scene, and the events surrounding it, but...

December 29th, 2010 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Here’s to you, Mr Yacoubian

The contributors to the Flickfeast site just would publicly like to say thanks to Robin Yacoubian for all his energy and work getting the Flickfeast site up and running. The rapidly increasing flow of visitors might assume that an enterprise like this just runs itself, but it really doesn’t: For...

December 21st, 2010 | Spotlight | Read More

The vampire at the spring, and beneath the Apple Tree

Apropos nothing, except the burning need to share this. Here is cinema and music combined in the most haunting of ways. The film is Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht, itself a remake of FW Murnau’s silent classic Nosferatu, Ein Symphonie des Grauens. The music is a Georgian...

December 16th, 2010 | Spotlight | Read More

A Brief History Of High School Harridans

In the recently-released You Again (pictured) Kristen Bell’s ex-geek-girl, Marni, finds out that her high school arch-nemesis, Odette Yustman’s eternally beautiful Joanna, is marrying her brother. Simultaneously Jamie Lee Curtis, Marni’s mother Gail, finds out that her darling daughter-in-law...

November 25th, 2010 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Play It By Eye (11 Music Videos)

And now for something completely different. Chris Knipp gives us his report on Play It By Eye, 11 new music videos shown at the 2010 San Francisco Animation Festival... Music videos: the search for originality. In judging "Play It by Eye," the San Francisco Animation Festival 2010's 11 new music video...

November 19th, 2010 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

New York Film Festival 2010

Healthy film treat time as Chris Knipp reports back from the Big Apple giving us reviews of all the films screened at the 48th New York Film Festival which was put on by the Film Society of Lincolm Center

November 12th, 2010 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

The 9th Annual Cornwall Film Festival

Remember, remember, the 5th of November! The 2010 Cornwall Film Festival is running from the 5th-7th of November and it’s got some great treats in store for movie fans. There are a number of highly acclaimed British and international feature films on offer over the weekend. The Arbor is a docu-drama...

November 9th, 2010 | Spotlight | Read More

BFI 54th London Film Festival

At Flickfeast we are really, oh so very excited as it is that time of year again. There is a whiff of popcorn in the air, the red carpets (freshly rainproofed) have been rolled out and the promise of a touch of Hollywood glamour is palpable. And that can mean only one thing… the BFI [...]

October 13th, 2010 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Dead By Dawn 2010 1 Day Un-Halloween Special

And so it came to pass that, at last, I would make my way under a bleak, grey sky to The Filmhouse yet again for another feat of horror. Twice in the same year? Oh, the madness. Strangely enough, my first experience with the horror festival here in Edinburgh was a fantastic one but not [...]

October 10th, 2010 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Unconventional Truth of The Twilight Series

The Twilight Series has encouraged a heavy amount of hype, primarily with teenage girls. Lusting over two very different portrayals of the ideal man. Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) is the blood sucking, soulless guy. Feminine in appearance, lean in build and he plays hard to get with Bella Swan (Kristen...

September 21st, 2010 | Spotlight | Read More

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