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The Chemistry that made the iconic movies with an empire of their own

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The Last Kings of Hollywood is the untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries – Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg – revolutionised American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it.  In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely-unknown filmmaker, a boisterous father of two called Francis Ford Coppola. At the … Continue reading The Chemistry that made the iconic movies with an empire of their own

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Moving towards a prize? Well let’s wait and see!

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KESHAV SHREE:- FILMMAKER AND QUALIFIED LONDONDOCTOR EDUCATED IN LONDON ITSELF.Aside from doing a degree in Medicine in London, Keshav has also done a one year film course and now he is a mover and a shaker in the fringe genre of making shorts (short films) for competitions! His appealing countenance is evident as he has acted in some of his films. Film is a passion and a hobby.Read on……Of his latest two shorts Keshav told me “They’re both realistic comedies and I like making films on things that affect me as a first generation immigrant.” He has been in England since he … Continue reading Moving towards a prize? Well let’s wait and see!

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Raindance Festival 2025: The Last Grail Hunter

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Dystopian and dark, the story of this saga cemented to Lee in a dream. He talked to John Altman ( remember Eastenders fame Nick) and the film took a mere four days to film on an iPhone and a drone using the film app Black Magic. Lee is in a band called The Pocket Gods and atmospheric angry music accompanies the story of this “esoteric road trip which is a bit fucked up” adding gravitas from the band. Guerrilla-style filming and work was intrinsic. The book Holy Blood And Holy Grail which apparently inspired some of the writings in The … Continue reading Raindance Festival 2025: The Last Grail Hunter

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Chaplin’s fall from grace

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The remarkable, story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman. Film critic, Scott Ryman’s biography of Charlie Chaplin is a perceptive, insightful portrait of  Chaplin and of an America consumed by political turmoil, starts in 1952, as he was barred from re-entering America by opaque machinations bin the US state department. Once the most famous man in the world, Chaplin abroad the RMS Queen Elizabeth, bound for England now risked becoming “stateless, impoverished” in Ryman’s words “ Charlie Chaplin had … Continue reading Chaplin’s fall from grace