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Sofia Carson in Songbird Dir: Adam Mason; Starring: KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Demi Moore, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser. 15 cert, 92 mins. Some truly extraordinary films have been made this year during lockdown by such esteemed auteurs as Pedro Almodóvar, Jonathan Glazer, Paolo Sorrentino and Michael Bay. Wait, Michael Bay? Yes, Michael Bay: director of Armageddon, The Rock and five Transformers films; Capra of carnage; Bergman of bombast; Fellini of fell-agrant mass destruction. In late March, a pitch from the British screenwriting duo ...

What's It Like to Make a Movie During the Pandemic? The people behind a blockbuster thriller, a viral horror hit, and a timely conversation starter – all shot and set during lockdown – let us know how they did it. (Photo by © STX Films) Moviemaking is incredibly… complicated. A million things can – and often do – go wrong, myriad questions and unforeseen problems pop up, and all the while issues like budgeting and scheduling consistently hover around, like annoying flies you just can’t swat away. But making a movie during lockdown? “It was intimidating and surreal, to be hone...

It was spawned from an idea in March that got the green light in May before a shoot in July and now a digital release in December, a spectacular turnaround helped tremendously, no doubt, by the blockbuster producer and deft string-puller Michael Bay. The British director and co-writer Adam Mason, whose previous credits have been small-scale genre movies, has crafted a rather ingeniously constructed film that tries to tell a big story with little resource, using a locked-down LA as a backdrop. It’s remarkably slick, if a little rote in its plotting, working best as a fascinating historica...