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Alex Murray (Director)
Jun 28, 20212 min read
Heroes & Villains: Shrek
After the success of Toy Story, Dreamworks Animation decided to follow suit and move from 2D to 3D animation and the result was the start...
Alex Murray (Director)
Jun 21, 20212 min read
Shot-by-Shot: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Dreamworks Animation has always been in its own league when it comes to animation. Pixar may have Toy Story and The Incredibles, but...
Alex Murray (Director)
May 17, 20213 min read
Heroes & Villains: Time & Space
Christopher Nolan doesn’t always follow the archetypal tropes of heroes and villains. Unless of course you count The Dark Knight trilogy,...
Alex Murray (Director)
May 10, 20213 min read
Shot-by-Shot: Interstellar
Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker whose name is associated with epic films such as The Dark Knight trilogy, Dunkirk, and most recently...
Alex Murray (Director)
Apr 19, 20213 min read
Heroes & Villains: James Bond
When it comes to British Iconography you think of things like Harry Potter or Doctor Who, but it’s hard to not imagine British culture...
Alex Murray (Director)
Apr 5, 20213 min read
Shot-by-Shot: Casino Royale
James Bond has had an amazing history on the big screen, one that spans decades of films. The longevity of the series is thanks to the...
Alex Murray (Director)
Mar 22, 20213 min read
Heroes & Villains: Indiana Jones
Let’s get something out of the way first, Harrison Ford pulls off playing the archetype of a hero really well! Star Wars proved that he...
Alex Murray (Director)
Mar 15, 20213 min read
Shot-by-Shot: War of the Worlds
From outer space to parks with dinosaurs, to the far future and to the distant past, Steven Spielberg has taken us everywhere within his...
Alex Murray (Director)
Feb 22, 20212 min read
Heroes & Villains: Transformers
Everyone recognises the Transformers brand from either the infamous toys or the cartoons. It’s a brand that keeps going from strength to...
Alex Murray (Director)
Feb 15, 20212 min read
Shot-by-Shot: Bumblebee
In the 2007 live-action Transformers film there’s only one Transformer who can’t talk, and they gave that Transformer a live-action...
Alex Murray (Director)
Jan 18, 20212 min read
Heroes & Villains: Darth Vader & Luke Skywalker
“No Luke, I am your father!” That iconic line changed the whole story to the Star Wars saga. It was no longer a good versus evil...
Alex Murray (Director)
Jan 11, 20213 min read
Shot-by-Shot: Rogue One
The Star Wars films have always been fantastic in terms of storytelling and in setting up expansive mythologies that exist in that...
Alex Murray (Director)
Dec 22, 20203 min read
Heroes & Villains: Santa Clause, Scrooge, and the Grinch
Christmas has one true hero, and that’s you. It’s you and me. We’re the people who help to tell stories and to bring Christmas alive....
Alex Murray (Director)
Dec 21, 20203 min read
Shot-by-Shot: The Polar Express
Robert Zemeckis is such a talented filmmaker. The man behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the Back to the Future trilogy and acclaimed films...
Alex Murray (Director)
Nov 23, 20202 min read
Heroes & Villains: The Wizard of Oz
Somewhere over the rainbow is a musical so beloved and adored that it is in a league of its own. The majority of people in the world have...
Alex Murray (Director)
Nov 9, 20202 min read
Shot-by-Shot: La La Land
Three months are in and we’re already talking about Musicals. Who doesn’t love a good Musical? Singing in the Rain, The Sound of Music,...
Alex Murray (Director)
Oct 19, 20202 min read
Heroes & Villains: The Incredibles
In 2004 the world was introduced to the Incredibles! This was before the rise of superhero films like The Dark Knight Trilogy and...
Alex Murray (Director)
Oct 12, 20202 min read
Shot by Shot: Pixar
Pixar is the top studio when it comes to animation, a number of reasons. Pixar was the first studio to create a CG movie with Toy Story...
Alex Murray (Director)
Sep 21, 20203 min read
Heroes & Villains: Batman & Joker
“Holy Moly Batman! It’s the Joker!”, who can’t forget the sheer cheesiness of the 1960s and Adam West’s Batman television show? Nowadays...
Alex Murray (Director)
Sep 7, 20202 min read
Shot-by-Shot: Watchmen
Welcome to the first in a new series of monthly blogs titled Shot-by-Shot! In this series I will be picking a film based around a theme...
Alex Murray (Director)
Jul 29, 20202 min read
The Prequel to the Café
It has been a year since I released The Girl in the Café on YouTube. So to celebrate this anniversary I was thinking of a special way of...
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