Tag: film

Ronin – Jambiya Video

With the amazing release of Abisso by OVO it’s seems a ripe time for Bruno D’s other amazing band Ronin to make a reappearance.  The iron being red hot this time they’ve chosen to...

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David Lynch : Remixes

Sitting alongside brand new tracks and previously unreleased instrumental versions are a slew of stunning remixes from the varied likes of Bastille, Hot Since 82, Venetian Snares and Bjorn Yttling...

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The Broken Circle Breakdown [Film]

The Broken Circle Breakdown is truly a moving piece of work at points, its expert direction neatly sidestepping the possibility of melodrama...

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Zombiezzzzzzzz: Putting the genre to rest

Hordes of undead roaming the streets are one thing, but stagnant and creatively bankrupt popular culture that never goes away is another. It’s time the genre got shot in the head....

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A Magnificent Haunting [Film]

Not quite detailed enough to create a true immersion in the blending of fantasy and reality it attempts, but as a piece to lightly charm, A Magnificent Haunting is recommended....

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London Film Festival : The Lunchbox

Review of the London Film Festival choice The Lunchbox...

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London Film Festival : Short Term 12

Short Term 12 is an impressive, emotive film that indicates some good material to come from Cretton....

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London Film Festival : Computer Chess

A film that will likely appeal to only the film aficionado. But for that aficionado it is a quietly hilarious little gem....

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London Film Festival : Teenage

The teenager is a creature whose needs and wants are the same, no matter the era...

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Generation : GV Art

'Motherhood in a sense is a performance, that the artists too are re-rehearsing'. Trebuchet reports on Generation at London's GV Art gallery....

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Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Aspirational Evil

Vince Gilligan has said in interviews that Breaking Bad started as an idea of creating show in which a sympathetic protagonist became a terrifying antagonist. Revisiting the show, this becomes clear....

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PAFT Relief with Rachael Reichert

CyBelle Horizon: a comic book, a video and a catwalk show all surrounded by vintage issues of American comic books. It could, and perhaps should, have been a total disaster...

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Word. Sound. Power. (Tate Britain)

We are in collaboration with the artists. Where work is subtitled we begin to demand the presence of a voice and find ourselves clutching at headsets for dear life. We begin to translate our familiar...

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Manga to Movies

Japanese films have retaken the box office in their home market in a major shift not seen since the 1960s....

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Come as You Are (Hasta la Vista) [FILM]

Its cocktail of playfulness and poignancy may at times seem a little sweet, but it goes down very smoothly....

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Legends of the Canyon : UK Release

Legends of the Canyon tracks the Laurel Canyon scene of the early 1970s by official photographer to Crosby, Stills and Nash...

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About Trebuchet

Trebuchet’s writers are university lecturers, record label owners, gallery curators, professional journalists, avid readers and you....

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Final Part]

'Art is not made by committee' SWP concludes his series on the art of the soundtrack...

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 3]

If you want sublime original music you don’t ask a god-given talent to appropriate and subtly re-arrange a track by Enya....

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 2]

The great composers like Jarre responded heroically to the high expectations of both director and studio....

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us

Stringwash and atmospherics? If you notice a film's soundtrack that means it's failed? Not in SWP's opinion. The art of the film score, revisited....

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Reel Iraq Festival

Reel Festivals focus on Iraq as the theme and subject for their March event, on the tenth anniversary of the UK & US military invasion of the country....

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Ocean life at Extreme Depths

James Cameron's DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition uncovers biodiversity ranging from gigantic amoebas and crustaceans to swimming sea cucumbers at extreme depths. ...

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Earnest Endeavours | Mono/Poly

Secret Video Invite : MONO/POLY + FREE THE ROBOTS EUROPE TOUR MARCH 2013. Thurs 14-Mar-13 @ Village Underground...

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Fire in the Blood [Film]

A healthcare industry that is allowed to continue monopolising the world will see many more needless deaths, all in the name of indifference and bottom dollar...

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The Sensual Economist

For no outwardly discernible reason, the periodical had decided to give the soft-porn star a full page obituary (with picture)....

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Gael Garcia Bernal in No [Film]

No is a deeply involving experience, and in no small part due to Bernal's performance....

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We Are All Dead Now [Stephen Jones]

Zombie Apocalypse threatens imminently. SWP composes the soundtrack....

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Holy Motors [Film]

The truth, and the beauty of the film is that it is wide open to interpretation. ...

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James Cameron new eco-film revealed

Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals....

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