Top Four Awkward Award Show Moments
Awards shows, with no exceptions, are awful. Watching a bunch of overpaid luvvies pat themselves on the back for all the mediocre crap that they’re churned out in the last 12 months inspires rage and...
View ArticleWhy Has Orwell Not Translated Successfully to the Screen?
Notable for his ability to compress a whole chapter’s worth of insight to the size of Christmas cracker joke, George Orwell’s influence should be obvious to even those who have yet to read a single...
View ArticleOTB Interviews: Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn was first scouted in the mid-2000s by modelling agency Select while shopping in London’s Kentish Town with her friend Henry Holland. Her career as a cover girl began with the May 2007...
View ArticleLove Is All You Need
Love Is All You Need In cinemas now There are two types of love: the good kind, such as the intimate bond shared between two soul mates; and the bad kind that is frequently practiced by men with...
View ArticleThe Most Shocking Moments In Film
Shock isn’t a new (or exclusive) concept in cinema. It’s been there for centuries, as part of many an art form, to keep pushing the boundaries of what creators can do and what audiences are prepared to...
View ArticleSean Bean Q&A
What made you want to return to Silent Hill? I had a good time on the first one, I enjoyed it and thought that the end product was good. It has a really disturbing quality to it which I quite like....
View ArticleThe Alternative 2013 Blockbusters
As the summer months draw near, it’s time once again to break out the 3D glasses, buckets of popcorn and nachos slathered in a hot melted substance we are meant to believe is cheese. Yes ladies and...
View ArticleThe ID, The Ego and the Film Soundtrack
The movies are the culmination of all the arts, presented to us in one (sometimes) magnificent whole. There are aesthetics and spectacle, literature and word play that emphasise the charisma of...
View ArticleGirl ‘On Top’: OTB Talks To Elisabeth Moss
“I can’t tell you that!”, Peggy Olsen yells down the phone. I imagine her slamming a defiant fist on a walnut desk, mustard twin set clashing with the angry rouge of her cheeks. “I’d be murdered.” I...
View ArticleSpring / Summer Soundtracks 2013
Music’s been a part of cinema longer than speech. It plays a huge part in getting a reaction from an audience. It creates the context for the action: it’s the river the words ride. Watch the final...
View ArticleA Tribute to Facial Hair in Film
With the shock recent news that Chuck Norris has decided to do-away with his trademark beard, and emerge out into the open face fuzz-free for the first time since puberty, we thought it was the...
View ArticleTop 5 Films at Cannes 2013
If you love film, you know that the year’s premier film festival starts tomorrow. Down in the south of France, Cannes 2013 will debut some of the biggest films coming to your screens this summer. In...
View ArticleInterview With Ali G and Borat Writer Dan Mazer
In his myriad years as a comedy writer, Dan Mazer has worked under as many mediums as his writing partner Sacha Baron Cohen has worked with stick-on hair. After the pair’s numerous milestones together...
View ArticleStars That Bared All
An exposed ankle, a heady hint of shoulder blade: there was once a time where these titillating sights on-screen would have sent audiences running to the censor, crying out at the profanity. But we...
View ArticleWithnail & I: Close to the action
Culturally, some films just loom larger in the public conscience. Each generation has its own favourites; some last longer than others. Anchorman continues to amuse the twenty-somethings who were...
View ArticleWhat Made Them Great: Robert Mitchum
If the year is 2013 (and it is) and I was born in 1977 (which I was) and I have a decent enough memory to remember watching films from about the age of 3 (which I do), this means I have been watching...
View ArticleDespicable? Me?! Miranda Cosgrove Answers All
Today sees the release of Despicable Me 2, the sequel to the highly successful 2010 animated comedy, starring Steve Carrell as the voice of Gru, a comedic super villain who ends up adopting three...
View ArticleHands of Time – Lotfy Nathan & The 12 O’Clock Boys
The Spinx famously asked all travellers to Thebes, “What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?” In life, as in Lotfy Nathan’s debut film, the answer...
View ArticlePussy Riot: Planting the seeds of change
In capturing the trial of Pussy Riot, documentary maker Mike Lerner didn’t just set out to tell a good story. As his film hits the screen, he tells OnTheBox why he thinks the Russian protest group is...
View ArticleWhat Made Them Great: Gene Tierney
Chances are, you haven’t heard of Gene Tierney and unless you’re 60 plus or a film buff, that is to be expected. As sad as this makes me, I must accept that she is never going to be celebrated in...
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