Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg
London, England

Shelagh is a Toronto-born, London-based writer. She also a programmer for Toronto After Dark Film Festival, and is writing her PhD on contemporary Spanish fantastic film.

PAINLESS's Juan Carlos Medina to Direct DAN LENO AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM
Fresh off a successful festival circuit run of his historical thriller Painless, director Juan Carlos Medina's next project will be an adaptation of the Peter Ackroyd novel, Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem. Announced at the Cannes film festival today,... More »
  

Sci-Fi London 2013 Review: MARS ET AVRIL Deserves Greater Attention
Oh, what a wonderful, rich, glorious treat of a film Mars et Avril is. A sci-fi steam-punk romance with a terrific score, it is a delight to the senses. Visually stunning, melodramatic in its storytelling, and unafraid to delve into deep... More »
  

Sci-Fi London 2013 Review: VESSEL Thoughtfully Depicts The Dark Side Of Psychic Powers
The world premiere screening of Vessel did not begin well. Out-of-synch sound forced the projectionist to stop film about 10 minutes in, and delay for half an hour while a back-up copy was found (I'm used to technical problems, so... More »
  

Sci-Fi London 2013 Review: DEAD WEIGHT
Two things can/have happened with the greater ease of making an indepedent film: One is that newbie filmmakers take no time or care with writing a good story and then take even less time to plan how they will film... More »
  

Hey, London! Get Crazy with NIGHT OF THE TRAILERS and GET CRAZY!
While I have learned to put up with people talking during trailers, I still don't like it. I want to see and hear about the great movies that are coming out. And I know many people who love to look... More »
  

Iconic Spanish Horror Director Jesús Franco Dies
Jesús "Jess" Franco - director of nearly 200 films, father of the 1960s Spanish horror boom and father of several generations of filmmakers - has died in Malaga of heart complications, at the age of 82.I don't think you could... More »
  

New Trailer for STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS Gives a few Villainous Clues
The new international trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness reveals a few plot clues, including a bit of the possible origin/motivation of the villain, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Is he Khan? A disgruntled member of Starfleet? A rogue agent? Frankly,... More »
  

Jesus Got a Gun in First Trailer for Álex de la Iglesia's WITCHING AND BITCHING
It seems rather appropriate that on the day I'm redrafting my thesis chapter on The Day of the Beast, the first trailer for mad maverick Álex de la Iglesia's new film should be released. I've always been pretty impressed at... More »
  

Cinematic Spectacle And Nacho Vigalondo's OPEN WINDOWS
Back in the late 19th century, in the early years of cinema, purveyors of this new art form would show the spectacle at fairgrounds and carnivals. It was not yet a new mode of storytelling, but a technological wonder. After... More »
  

Koldo Serra to Helm Spanish Civil War Film GERNIKA
One of Pablo Picasso's most famous works is 'Guernica,' a painting about a town of the same name that was bombed by the Nazis during the Spanish Civil War. Now the story of that tragedy is being brought to the... More »
  

Gondry Animates Chomsky in Trailer for New Doc IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?
I've come to the conclusion that Michel Gondry never sleeps. Either he's an insomniac or constantly high on caffeine, but his output is pretty incredible, especially in variety. With the trailer for his upcoming feature fiction film Mood Indigo only a... More »
  

Sex! Love! Tiny Cocktails! Spanish Trailer for Almodóvar's I'M SO EXCITED
Oh, Almodóvar. You've given us comedy, drama, romance, horror, and we come back for more. While he might have stumbled a bit in the early 2000s, the world's favourite Spanish filmmaker made a great comeback with 2011's The Skin I... More »
  

New Trailer For THE LAST DAYS Intensifies Apocalyptic Chaos And Fear
David and Alex Pastor's first feature film, Carriers, was a creepy film set in a deserted America where a plague was slowly killing the population. In their second feature,The Last Days, they're taking the apocalypse back to their native Spain.... More »
  

Spanish Films THE ORPHANAGE, JULIA'S EYES and More Slated for Remakes
Spanish fantastic film has been having an incredible renaissance over the past 15 years. From Álex de la Iglesia to Alejandro Amenábar to Nacho Vigalondo, all range of horror, science fiction and fantasy has been pouring out of the country,... More »
  

First Whimsical Trailer for Michel Gondry's MOOD INDIGO
Michel Gondry has quite a varied filmography (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Green Hornet, The We and the I), but arguably his best works are the odd and whimsical films about love, how the human mind processes it... More »
  

Danny Boyle Returns To His Darkly Comic Roots In The First Trailer For TRANCE
Danny Boyle has come a long way since his feature film debut Shallow Grave. His career has been an eclectic one, but it looks like he might have headed back to those roots again in his new film, Trance, an... More »
  

Shelagh's Intense, Low-Fi Top Films of 2012
This was a great year in film for me, for two big reasons. One: great sci-films are making a comeback, ones that care about story, not just explosions. Two: the classical, cause-and-effect narrative, where the audience is led by the... More »
  

A Few Spanish Glimpses at Vigalondo's OPEN WINDOWS
Nacho Vigalondo just wrapped production on his third feature film, Open Windows, down in Austin, Texas. A psychological thriller starring Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey, it follows on Vigalondo's examination of the dissemination of information, as the story is told... More »
  

BLANCANIEVES to Screen in Canada via D Films
My favourite film at TIFF this year, the sumptuous Spanish film Blancanieves will be distributed in Canada by D Films. A silent, black and white film retelling of the Snow White fairy tale set in 1920s Spain, directed by Pablo... More »
  

Spying on the Set of Nacho Vigalondo's OPEN WINDOWS
A series of emails took me through the maze of streets in a central neighbourhood of Madrid. Upon arrival, I was led by producer Nahikari Ipiña into the location shoot of Nacho Vigalondo's new thriller Open Windows. Starring Elijah Wood,... More »
  
 
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