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Spling has been reviewing film weekly on his Talking Movies show on Fine Music Radio for over 5 years now. The review segment has been published as a podcast on the splingmovies.com website for listeners who may have missed some
David Lynch is an auteur, whose surreal films have carved a jagged path through Hollywood. Originally an artist, the film-maker has subsequently made a name for himself through his bizarre, beautiful and imaginative dreamscapes. Independent, creative and boundary-breaking, his media
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay this year. It’s a hilarious, touching and edgy war satire about a boy in Hitler’s Youth Army who discovers his mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their
Poppie Nongena is a South African historical biographical drama about a housekeeper who struggles to keep her family together in the face of inhumane pass laws. Set in Cape Town during the ’70s when South Africa was subject to the
1917 is a spectacular World War I film from Sam Mendes. The British writer-director was at the helm of American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and Skyfall. His elegant films have substance, style and are always worth considering come award season. While
Bombshell is a film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph, starring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. The story deals with a scandal at Fox News, where News head Roger Ailes was found wanting when a
Roland Emmerich is known for his blockbuster films, including 10,000 BC, 2012 and now Midway. Based on the battle of Midway, which followed six months after the Pearl Harbor attack during World War II, this passion project for Emmerich is
While the illusion of cinema is able to immerse you in other worlds, there are very hard rules when it comes to dialogue and screenplays. A curious example is Marriage Story, the Noah Baumbach independent drama with Adam Driver and
When it comes to writing a screenplay, especially a thriller, there’s a tendency for writers to stick to the genre’s propensity for twists and turns. While it is to be expected that there will be a couple of surprise plot
A “Woody Allen film” has almost become a film genre. He frequently plays a neurotic New Yorker, casts himself, features a writer, a semi-successful entertainment figure, starts with narration, references literary works and sets his films in New York. These