Geek Overture

There is no better way to spend a rainy day in and on the couch watching an omnibus of great movies, but you will need sustenance! And I have the ultimate 3 course snack menu for your movie extravaganza… It all starts with starters and why not in the comfort of your own home and [...]

The Hunger Games film, released on the 23rd March, has already wowed the critics and got us all excited! The film is based on the book written by Suzanne Collins and attracts a teenage audience. Therefore it is undoubtedly going to be compared Twilight, but don’t be fooled! The only comparison we can make, is [...]

The 2012 edition of South by Southwest Festival will take place from March 9th to 18thin Austin, Texas. For those of you who haven’t heard about it before, SXSW is one of the most important festivals in the US. South by Southwest is a company that organises trade shows, conferences and festivals. The events taking [...]

The most important awards in the Spanish cinema industry, Premios Goya, just took place a couple of days ago so I thought it would be nice to show you some Spanish films that you should watch. Besides I’m a little homesick and I want to prove that not everything is ‘paella’ and ‘fiesta’, well sometimes [...]

From the file marked “Hmm, now that’s a bit bizarre” comes the news that a Finnish sci-fi movie which hangs its premise on Nazis invading Earth has become a smash hit at, of all places, the Berlin Film Festival. While the Festival usually prides itself on screening fairly highbrow fare (A Separation – an Iranian [...]

This year’s Glasgow Film Festival runs from 16th to 26th February in different venues across the city. This is the 8th edition of the festival and the programme is packed with different kinds of events, from film screenings to gigs or workshops. Allan Hunter, co-director of the festival states that the philosophy of GFF is [...]

Harry Potter has gone from strength to strength till its recent final installment. Now Daniel Radcliffe sort of lets go of his Potter character and delves into the depths of horror film mania with upcoming, much anticipated The Woman in Black… The trailer The plot The Woman in Black goes back to Edwardian times with Arthur [...]

So! Valentine’s Day is approaching so that means date night for many of us, single or otherwise. The classic Valentine’s date is going to the cinema and there are lots of films to chose from, so here is a run-down of potential Valentine’s Day date movies: The Vow Ok so lets start with the ‘obvious’ [...]

Wes Anderson, cult director of films like The Royal Tenenbaums or The Darjeeling Limited is back with a new movie this year. Moonrise Kingdom’s trailer was released yesterday, if you’re familiar with the director’s previous work you can totally tell that this is a Wes Anderson movie. The story is set on an island in [...]

There’s a screenwriting exercise so old hat even people who have never been near the creative end of the cinema-stick know about it: describe this character without mentioning their job, appearance or familial relationship to another character. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s cancer sufferer does not fare well by this metric. As someone suffering a condition one in [...]