Becoming a Film Addict: Part 2
The previous 'Becoming a Film Addict' seemed to go down well and, looking back on it, the article seemed a little perfunctory.  I have thought about it some more and this is an expansion on Part 1. This addiction to film and DVDs led me, following...
Posted by David Beckett

Oscar Predictions 2010
As I had finished my Master’s in September I was free this year to spend more time in the cinema and see all of the contenders possible.  There are a couple that haven’t been release or shown around here – The Blindside will only hit UK cinemas after...
Posted by David Beckett

Becoming a Film Addict: Part 1
For many people, a love of film and cinema was developed from a very young age with weekly (or even more frequent) trips to the local picture house with parents or other relatives. Others may have picked up that habit from friends and relatives at...
Posted by David Beckett

The Faux Documentary and 'Found Footage' Horror Film
There are filmmakers whose names are legendary for inventing cinematic techniques that influence motion pictures to this day.  Men like Sergei Eisenstein for his dialectic montage, D.W. Griffith for pioneering the twin narrative structure of...
Posted by David Beckett

3D Movies - The Gimmick That Will Not Die
Recently ardent followers of technology will have noticed a resurgence in the talk of 3D movies and TV. The more cynical amongst us wonder if it ever went away, especially when you look back at the history of it all. See it all started way back in...
Posted by Robert John Shepherd

Oscar Predictions 2009
One of the drawbacks of postgraduate study is not having as much spare time as you would otherwise have; in other years I would have seen all of the big-hitters at the Oscars but this year, I’ve missed out on several, notably Milk and Revolutionary...
Posted by David Beckett

007: Licence to Sell.
Product placement is something that has been increasingly noticeable in films. Whether it’s Pepsi in Back to the Future, FedEx in Cast Away, or Apple computers saving the World in Independence Day, corporations have always tried to get their brand...
Posted by David Beckett

Film snobbery or a matter of taste?
Please, someone, make them stop. When I saw The Dark Knight on Thursday (24/07) amongst the previews was a trailer (attached below) for Disaster Movie, which included Iron Man being squashed by a cow, the Incredible Hulk’s trousers ripping, the...
Posted by David Beckett

Tales from the Script
While I decide exactly what I want to do with my new mini-site, I thought I'd use this opportunity to say a quick 'welcome to my domain', in order to get things moving along. It's quite possible you're here because you're a film fan, which is...
Posted by Ben Franklin

Why Don’t You Go To The Cinema Anymore?
Something odd happened to me recently, I found myself in a cinema for the first time in around three years. It was the Indiana Jones movie that finally tempted me back, but I got to thinking about how I had come to this pass. After all, once upon a...
Posted by Jitendar Canth

The Sprocket Hole - Bizzaro World Casting
I’m always fascinated hearing alternative casting to famous movie roles. How weird a world could it be if Sir Sean Connery had accepted the role as Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, or Christopher Walken had taken the role as Han...
Posted by Mark Oates