Rajneel Singh

Citizen Kane (1941) has a lot to answer for.  I mean – seriously – it’s an outright menace sometimes and the bane of many a film student or professor.  What’s the problem?  Well, to put it simply: it’s the greatest movie ever made (apparently).  Not only is it still a challenging film to watch, almost […]

There is a saying in the movie business: “films are never completed, they are merely abandoned.“ There is a great deal of philosophical truth to that statement — films are almost never merely the product of creative endeavor, but also of money, marketing and timely business endeavor. When a film is released it is dictated […]

Dracula is one of my favourite novels of all time. I mean, seriously, I read it twice a year at least and I can’t get enough.  I love Dracula so much that it has spawned a whole secondary fetish: Dracula movies!  Yes, I’m talking about Murnau, Lugosi, Lee, Oldman and many other adaptations in all shapes […]

In early January of this year, esteemed film critic (and now blogger) Roger Ebert posted this brief letter to him, written by Academy-Award winning editor and sound designer Walter Murch, about Why 3D Does Not Work (and never will according to Ebert).  As far as ‘The Ebe’ was concerned, this was case-closed as Murch pointed […]

There’s almost no point anymore in saying things like “Hollywood is a strange, fickle and bizarre place”. After all, this is hardly news to anyone these days and that in particular atmosphere of grin-and-bear-it absurdity we’ve seen the birth of many great cinematic masterpieces of our time…plus the expansive sea of mind-rapingly awful mediocrities that […]

Flicks.co.nz caught up with debut director James Napier-Robertson to ask him a few questions about his thriller, I’m Not Harry Jenson… FLICKS: What was your inspiration behind I’m Not Harry Jenson? JAMES NAPIER-ROBERTSON: I had always wanted to make a noir, mystery type film, as they were a huge part of my film interest growing up. […]